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Danielle Rago’s family pied-à-terre was typical of New York City: dark, cramped (it spans merely 500 square feet), and dated. “We’ve had it for more than a decade,” she recalls. “It was ripe for a transformation.” So when her sister—who had been living there for the past six years—moved out in 2018, Rago leapt at the opportunity to make it her own haven. She not only longed for a place to stay while in transit—although based in Los Angeles, the cofounder of THIS X THAT, a strategic agency for up-and-coming architects, often traveled to the East Coast prior to the...

It feels like a retreat; a place to put aside all of the stress and anxiety of hectic errands, work woes, and relationship troubles, and just be. These spaces can bring peace and they can also seriously inspire. Toss in a gorgeous, tree-lined Seattle neighborhood and a home like that is even harder to beat. But what makes Darlene Campos‘ home even dreamier is the way she’s pulled the decor together—it’s a grown-up space that’s beautiful and doesn’t take away from its surroundings, but still has the power to stand on its own. Better yet? Darlene gave us the inside...

Courtesy of Tortuga Living Most people look to increase their home’s square footage by any means possible in a renovation; Andrea Hill did the opposite. In 2017 the founder of Tortuga Living and her husband, artist Carlos Irijalba, bought a four-story 1890s brownstone in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood with a rental garden unit. “We knew from living in a four-floor walk-up that stairs are not our friend, so we reconfigured the home as two duplexes,” she says.  This meant losing the top two floors to renters and reconfiguring the basement rental to make space for three bedrooms, two full bathrooms,...