Rachel Edwards
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
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- Aug 10, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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The 6 Biggest Mistakes People Make When Decorating With Antiques (opens the original)
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In most cases, vintage and antique furniture brings depth, character, and a sense of history to a room. There’s a reason grandma loved classic wood furniture—turns out she had it right all along! But in the wrong room with the wrong design choices, even exceptional antique furniture pieces can look, well, cheap. To name a few, poor furniture placement, mismatched scale, and over-the-top restoration can cause older items to lose their charm, making them feel theatrical or even staged. But getting
This Charming Paint Trend Is Making Boring White Molding a Thing of the Past (opens the original)
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Somewhere in the last century, brilliant white gloss became the factory setting for all domestic millwork. Crown molding, doors, and banisters have all suffered the same fate. But shiny white surfaces belong to interiors of a much sleeker sort, where everything is contemporary, immaculate, and erring on the institutional. Adding color to your woodwork instead—a trend spreading wildly across social media—almost feels like something we should have been doing all along. (Or, by the look of older ho
Struggling With Paint Colors? Try This Foolproof Designer Formula (opens the original)
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Creating a great color scheme is not the dark art many believe it to be. Colors interact in reliable ways, which is why we have a color wheel that can tell you exactly how green looks next to red or blue or yellow. Where many struggle is in finding the right balance of shades across a single space, which is why designers use the 60–30–10 rule. Below, we’re diving into the rule, sharing exactly how you should use it, and giving tips on how to avoid the most common color-pairing mistakes. The 60–3
3 Cheap Thrift Store Finds that Add Personality to Any Room (opens the original)
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A room feels bespoke when its contents are personal and individual, rather than Pinterest-packaged and freshly picked from a mass retailer. Thrift stores are fertile hunting grounds because their stock is unique and unpredictable, offering a variation in age, material, and provenance. The greatest decorative potential tends to lie in items with scale. Oversized paintings or reams of old textiles are widely available, while something like decorative wall plates can fill up a wall for next to noth
The Gallery Wall Had a Good Run—This Is What Designers Are Doing Now (opens the original)
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Gallery walls once felt fresh and eclectic and individual, but seeing the same sort of designs repeated ad infinitum across social media has made it all seem a bit rehearsed. A new take on the gallery wall was inevitable, and the most stylish examples we've seen of late have all been designed around the humble plate. Cheaper to build and significantly easier to arrange, plate walls do away with rigid frames and grid-like layouts for more relaxed and unexpected compositions. Below, we’re breaking
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