LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. If you rent, or just can’t stand looking at the same four walls for too long, decorating starts to feel like a series of small negotiations. What can you change without losing your deposit? How do you make a home feel personal when…
If your living room has reinvented itself more times than your wardrobe this year, you might be stuck in a cycle of decor fatigue. Design fatigue, the burnout that happens when a space feels overworked or over-styled, sneaks up when the pursuit of perfection starts to outweigh comfort. One week, it’s curved furniture or material…
Steven Conaway | Special to the Telegram & Gazette USA TODAY NETWORK Meadows are open landscapes, composed of grasses and wildflowers. The word “meadow” itself is evocative, conjuring images of Julie Andrews twirling in the Alps or bucolic, rolling farmers’ fields. Meadows can be grand sprawling vistas, but they can also occupy smaller clearings or…
LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. Interior trends often travel in opposite directions: some pull us toward the past, others push us into the bold and eccentric. But what happens when you blend two of the most visually distinct styles? Enter the mashup of castlecore home decor and retro…
LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. You step into a home that feels grounded, honest, unhurried, and somewhere in the walls you sense stories. Maybe the wood has a sun-bleached edge. Maybe there’s a dent in the tabletop where someone accidentally leaned too hard. Nothing matches exactly, but it…
LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. Scan the latest home tours on Instagram or TikTok, and you’ll spot it immediately: cookie-cutter decor is out, character is in. Spaces layered with handcrafted ceramics, aged wood, and embroidered linens feel instantly more intimate. A quiet rebellion against the era of mass-produced…
Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg Kristiane Koontz recently used ChatGPT 4.0 to plan her summer vegetable and herb garden. “My prompt was fairly detailed, telling it my climate, micro climate and soils and asking it to select varieties of vegetables and herbs that would do well where I am,” said Koontz, executive vice president and director of treasury…
Eileen Ward | Columnist On Tuesday we celebrate Earth Day. This holiday was first celebrated in 1970. It is a great day to think about the beautiful environment surrounding us on Marco Island and how to perhaps create habitats (think your yard) that are more friendly and inviting to the environment and the creatures that…
