Design

What's the Color of Texas? Ask Bailey McCarthy

The designer and owner of Biscuit Home has created a Texas-themed palette for Farrow & Ball.

12/04/2014 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Space City

Holiday Entertaining in the Subtropics

Houston’s yuletide doesn’t resemble a Thomas Kinkade painting—and that’s okay.

11/30/2014 Photography by Shannon O'Hara By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Get the Look

The Milan Look: A Sexy-Cool Home

Just because you call Texas home doesn’t mean you can’t live la dolce vita.

10/22/2014 By Nadia Michel

Home Design

Slideshow: Three of Houston’s Coolest Home Bars

A bachelor pad, a mid-century wonder, and a mixologist’s dream

09/30/2014 By Katharine Shilcutt Photography by Max Burkhalter

Drinking, Domesticated

A Bar of One’s Home

Three of Houston’s coolest home bars

09/01/2014 By Katharine Shilcutt Photography by Max Burkhalter

Space City

Fighting Off Carpet, One Compromise at a Time

When building their dream home, one Houston couple had only one requirement.

04/30/2014 By Kerry H.

Home Security

Notes From Underground

Inside the bunker with Houston’s home security firms, where fear is the bottom line and impenetrability a very big business

04/07/2014 By Peter Holley Illustrations by Owen Freeman

LOCAL CRAFTS

Bring the Dome to Your Throne

Dena Yanowski's hand-made Astrodome cushions are too cool.

03/18/2014 By John Nova Lomax, Fashion and Style Correspondent

Dream Homes

Interior Design Trends: New Balance

As with life, the ideal living space for 2014 is all about finding balance between opposites.

12/31/2013 By Katharine Shilcutt

Dream Homes

Houston’s Five Best Residential Architects

We asked dozens of architects who they’d choose to build their own homes. These are the five names we heard most often.

12/31/2013 By Peter Holley

Dream Homes

These Days, More is More

Out: Scandinavian minimalism. In: wallpaper!?

12/31/2013 By Kerry H.

Real Estate

Houston’s Dream Homes

We convened a panel of experts to select Houston’s ten greatest homes. Plus the latest in furniture, the city’s greatest architects, and avoiding contractors from hell.

12/23/2013