Amanda Clifford

It was a spring day in the Catskills, and Candace Thurber Wheeler was looking for a mountaintop. She’d grown up nearby and, after a career in the decorative arts in New York City, she wanted to build a vacation home. There were stipulations, though: The plot had to have a great view and robust natural surroundings. According to her biography, it had to be a place “where we could build a camp or cabin, and live a wild life for a few summer weeks.”Her brother bought 108 acres that day, and Wheeler…

After a 13-year battle with breast cancer, House Hunters host Suzanne Whang died on Tuesday night, according to a Facebook post written by her partner Jeff Vezain. Whang, who hosted the show for nearly a decade, was wildly popular with her audience—and seemingly everyone lucky enough to have met her. Fans admired her sense of humor, warmth, her courage, and even just the soothing way she spoke. “When I was pregnant with my first kid, I would lay in bed watch the original House Hunters that Suza…

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And a look inside her winning Rock the Block house.

Having a vision is one thing. But it’s what comes next—the risk-taking and recruiting, the sleepless nights and countless hours—that turn that dream into a reality. House Beautiful’s 2020 Visionaries have done all that and then some, creating innovative brands and companies that will come to change the way we decorate.In 2004, New York designer James Huniford saw a need. “Homeless people living with HIV were not getting enough attention. Something needed to be done—quickly.” Who better to step u…

Having a vision is one thing. But it’s what comes next—the risk-taking and recruiting, the sleepless nights and countless hours—that turn that dream into a reality. House Beautiful’s 2020 Visionaries have done all that and then some, creating innovative brands and companies that will come to change the way we decorate.“Dims was born out of a very simple idea—to create original designs that are forward-looking, sustainably made, and accessibly priced,” says Eugene Kim, who launched the furniture…

Blast from the past.

For those seeking a useful way to spend their time during social distancing—or anyone simply interested in forging a deeper connection with their homes—HB has launched Home Love, a series of daily tips and ideas to make every minute indoors more productive (and gratifying!).High on the list of things I’ve long considered but always put off due to one excuse or another: getting a printer. For starters, they are large and screechy and horrible-looking—where could I put it so as to be both hidden a…

“WE’RE MAKING SCOTCHEROOS, PEEPS!” Jessie Sheehan is balancing a Pyrex bowl of puffed rice cereal on her head and grinning, a wall of buttery yellow shaker cabinetry just visible behind her. Measuring spoons clang and the video zips along, ingredients piling into the bowl. The self-proclaimed “queen of easy-peasy sweets,” Sheehan built a career authoring cookbooks and developing recipes before, while quarantined earlier this year, parlaying her buoyant personality to the social media du jour: Ti…

Plus how to buy the perfect model for your purposes.

When designer Tammer Hijazi and his wife, Caitlin Mociun, started talking about getting a Bengal cat, they found themselves falling down a rabbit hole of design requirements. “From all the research we did about the breed, it seemed as if these cats were going to be bouncing off the walls, and they loved having high places to jump to and whatnot,” recalls Hijazi, a partner at Bower Studios. A standard beige cat tree was not going to cut it, but designing and fabricating custom shelves just for th…

Bellport Village (and neighboring Brookhaven Hamlet) offer cultural and outdoorsy activities for the design-minded traveler

Not ready to commit to open shelving? Try this.

See how Wit & Delight founder Kate Arends transformed her dated midcentury kitchen—without even changing the floor plan.

There’s even a “sand room” for dropping beach gear and hiking boots.

Regan Baker, Medium Plenty, and Terremoto transformed a 1920s Spanish Colonial into a contemporary family spread.

“It directly reflects all the things that bring me joy,” says the designer.

A bold red stripe across the ceiling, walls, and floors frames the space.

The original plaster walls and adobe construction were meticulously preserved.

Moving my newborn son into his big sister’s room was always part of the plan. We only have two bedrooms! But getting him to actually sleep there soundly, without waking up the three-year-old? We’d have to work for that. Ultimately, my husband and I settled on a 3-pronged approach: 1. Get him to sleep through the night in our room first. 2. Soothe him as quickly as possible when he wakes up whining in the same room as his sister. 3. Cradlewise. Using the Cradlewise CribThe idea of a smart crib ho…