Interior Design Archive

Wetter Is Better

Water features for the home have taken off for the same reason so many of us love to go to the ocean. Whether from a multi-tiered fountain or a crashing waterfall, you can see and hear the water, but you can also feel it and smell it. And that’s as refreshing at home as it is on your beach vacation.

By Lisa Marie Rovito

Everything in its Place

Living with feng shui can improve your health, enhance your love life, empower your business, and help you create your personal nirvana one room at a time. (Its techniques for polish and placement may even make it easier to sell your house.) Good feng shui is a lifestyle choice, and working with — rather than against or unaware of — its powerful energies promotes success.

By Anita Rosenberg

Most Wanted - Into Africa

The District Commissioner’s House at The Living Desert — and its views into the leopard habitat — inspire wild and exotic touches for spring

By Lisa Marie Rovito

Right Angles - Just Shoot Me

Photographers, stars, and architectural buffs can’t get enough of these camera-friendly good looks

Lisa Marie Rovito

Westward Home

The legend behind the leather of America’s greatest cowboys relaxes with his wife at home on the range.

By Alex Altman

A River Runs Through It

A terrific designer and fabulous architect mean little without the right clients. When the owners of this Rancho Mirage custom home hired designer Sam Cardella and architect Ana Escalante, the pair of professionals was thrilled to discover two undemanding clients who trusted them completely.

By Samantha Comby

Home, Green, Home

Recycled, repurposed — and remarkable items in any setting.

By Lisa Marie Rovito

Gallery Scene

Sculptor Javier Marin at Buschlen Mowatt Galleries and Painter Robert Bracketti at the Norman Lasiter Gallery

Most Wanted

As easy to love as to care for, these popular potteds enchant in any setting.

By Lisa Marie Rovito

Right Angles

Stand in the yard of this home and you’ll have views looking both ways: the mountains in one direction, and a custom dream home in the other

By Lisa Marie Rovito