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Kitchen in Hawaii with cabinets in Koa wood. This homeowner needed some design advice answered via Designed in a Click Q&A email service. carlaaston.com Hey Design Lovers! I’m sharing one of my email interior design consultations that came in from Hawaii a couple of months ago. This homeowner had a question or two about the kitchen and then some decorating questions about the entry and a big blank wall in the living room. While not that unusual, I could tell in the pictures this homeowner sent me that this home was likely not in a typical suburban builder home.  ...

At a time when the lived-in look has entered and taken over in all of our homes, here’s an inspiring, rarefied version on the theme. London architecture firm Jonathan Tuckey Design—a member of the Remodelista Architect and Designer Directory—was presented with a four-story Regency townhouse, the longstanding home of a family involved in the art world. The place was well lived in, according to project architect James Moore, and the requested top-to-bottom refresh set out to embrace rather than erase all the visible everyday things. “The scheme is really about creating a backdrop to their busy lives, introducing functional storage...