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This 1960s tri-level home in Carlsbad, California, sits just a mile from the Pacific, but its appeal goes beyond proximity to the beach. “It’s in a neighborhood now referred to as ‘olde Carlsbad,’” says designer Leigh Jendrusina. “It has great proximity to the local schools and a short bike ride or golf cart ride from Carlsbad Village’s shops and restaurants.”

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For designer Delecia Becker, renovating this 1951 home in Skokie, Illinois, was less about reinvention than revival. Her goal was simple: “To bring it back to life,” she says. “It already had so much character and beauty, but it was stuck in the past. I wanted to find a way to bring it into the present without costing the home its story.”

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For Lisa Bühler, a great outfit should inspire an immediate reaction—ideally, a “Gah!” As the founder of California-based fashion brand Lisa Says Gah, she has spent the past 11 years building a colorful world around that very feeling. Lisa Says Gah (LSG) began as an online destination for independent designers and has evolved into a beloved label of its own, and brought back ...

Old meets new, quite literally, on this four-acre waterfront property in Jacksonville, Florida. “The newly completed architecturally modern primary residence sits adjacent to the property’s original 1902 historic home, which was floated down the river and now serves as a guest house,” says interior designer Erika Gervin of South Harlow Interiors. “Sitting on over four acres o...

The home is located in Philadelphia’s historic Rittenhouse neighborhood. “There is a dense aggregation of similar scale brick rowhomes that are a maximum of three stories so even though it is urban, it feels very residential,” says designer Lauren Thomsen. “Residents love the sunny, tree-lined streets in close proximity to restaurants, shopping, and iconic Rittenhouse Square ...