"I found this really cute picnic basket at Goodwill for $4.79 and loved the weaving on it," Ana Ochoa from @ana.ochoaliving said in a recent Instagram video. She shared that the basket's straps were on their last legs, and she had the perfect second life in mind for it.
"I can't stress enough how much of a revolving door it is," says designer Henry Boyle of the seaside Nantucket compound he recently completed for a Connecticut-based couple, their four young-adult children, and a pack of beloved dogs. "They're local celebrities in this community-it's a constant stream of people."
With its floor-to-ceiling glass walls and timber-clad ceilings, it was the only place in the ice hockey rivals' lives where curtains didn't have to be drawn. It was here, in the season finale (titled The Cottage) that the heat of their rivalry finally cooled into something meaningful.
Neither of us had ever installed a sink before, and we only had one shot to get the placement right and cut the hole correctly. We spent a good four hours off and on the phone with my dad, measuring and re-measuring before finally committing to the cut. There were tense moments, but we figured it out.
Staying cozy this winter is a must, and while many of us have our favorite self-care routines, a few comfort items can make your time alone or with a loved one even better. We've picked out the best comfort products to help you beat the winter blues, from weighted plushies to blankets. Check out these cozy finds you can shop now.
In Emerald Fennel's adaptation of the classic novel by Emily Brontë, when Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) marries Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif) and moves from her blustery, foreboding home of Wuthering Heights to the technicolor neighboring manor, Thrushcross Grange, he creates a bedroom that is an ode to his new bride. The pinkish walls and carpet look exactly like her skin-complete with veins and moles-and even sweat when she does.
Every hotel on this list has been selected independently by our editors and written by a Condé Nast Traveller journalist who knows the destination and has stayed at that property. When choosing hotels, our editors consider both luxury properties and boutique and lesser-known boltholes that offer an authentic and insider experience of a destination. We're always looking for beautiful design, a great location and warm service - as well as serious sustainability credentials.
The alpine luxury aesthetic has been whitewashed with bleached timbers, disciplined schemes in varying shades of snow, and bouclé furniture that politely receded into the background - all designed to quiet the senses after a day on the slopes. It was a look that mirrored the landscape outside: serene and elemental. But something more decorative is carving fresh tracks. A new generation of designers is embracing pattern, color and ornament at altitude, with chintz leading the mountain-maximalist charge refreshingly off-piste.
Rolling up to one of the UK's best lakeside Airbnbs means mornings peering through the windows as mist rises over the surface, afternoon calm punctuated only by the splash of a rowboat's paddle, and evenings nursing wine glasses as light fades over gently rippling waters. Truly, we're spoiled here in the UK - our little country has a glut of idyllic regions in every nook and cranny and, within them, a wonderful selection of lakeside Airbnbs offering restoration
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