Ellen McGauley

Talk about a glow-up: These pieces are studded with rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.

From interesting techniques in furniture to history-nodding textiles, here's what we're looking forward to in decorating.

How to Grow Showstopping Sweet Peas

Is the wilderness the center of true civilization? A journey to the remote reaches of Vancouver Island sharpens the senses for exploring beauty.

We created our dream after-hours hideaway, using AI, inspired by our 2025 Color of the Year.

There is such a thing as the art of doing nothing—and it is both elegant and enlightening. Such was the ruling sentiment of the 10 designers, shop owners, and bona fide bons vivants we asked to show us the best of Paris today. Almost all endorsed Parisians’ mastery of just being: losing yourself in literature, conversation, architecture, even a game of pétanque in front of a park bench. It’s a spirit as essential to the city as the Seine. Here, how to embrace the riches of Paris, joyfullyWhere t…

Everyone is talking about Hell’s Gate. Skimming the western side of Fraser Canyon, roughly 140 miles east of Vancouver, I stand and lean across the aisle of the coach to get a clearer view down into the ravine.There, upriver, the rock faces suddenly choke inward, squeezing the mint green water like a craggy corset. The river spits and churns in the narrow passage; above, a fire red footbridge stretches across the rocks. Against the enormous canyon walls, the bridge appears almost dainty, as if I…

Fogo Island is a windy place. There’s muscle to the gusts that sweep across the island in Newfoundland along the easternmost coast of Canada and in fact North America. So to build furniture in a 100-year-old wood building set on piers requires some concessions. “On especially windy days the building shifts, and so we have to adjust lathes and other machines more regularly,” explains Michael Murphy, who leads Fogo Island Workshops, the contemporary craft studio born of the now-famed Fogo Island I…

Welcome to Day 10 of VERANDA’s 12 Days of Chicmas. In this series, our editors offer a dozen elegant, uncomplicated upgrades for all your favorite spaces, from front door to master bath (and nope, we didn’t forget the bar). Call it the happier hosting, sleep-like-you’re-on-holiday, serenity-first guide for the year ahead. And did we mention these projects are easy? Give the designer the day off—you’ve got this.Light. Air. Water. Wi-Fi.Wait, strike that last one. Today’s conservatory might be the…

Hint: It’s probably already in your house, awaiting its shining moment.

True, dyed-in-the-wool design romantics have something to tuck into this winter (with eggnog, hot toddy, your pick), and it lands December 1 with a grounding perspective on what makes a great house. When we gape at the way a stone Palladian-style residence settles deep into a rolling hillside, marvel at a white clapboard house rising from a stand of trees, or a vaulted agrarian outbuilding rises subtly behind a shoreline, we are witnessing the land as a mighty protagonist in a story of a house t…

Any interior designer worth his or her salt has likely had to politely decline projects for any number of reasons, from full client rosters to travel hardships or even mismatched architectural or building teams. But what happens when things go off the rails after the contract is signed? We’re talking somewhere between gleeful presentations and install day, that moment when suddenly, you (dear, excited client) find yourself on the George Costanza end of the ‘It’s-not-you, it’s-me’ line. In the d…

All good things are born in a barn, aren’t they? When interior designer Brad Ford founded Field Supply in 2014—in, yes, a renovated barn at a four-corner intersection in the Hudson Valley—it was a humble little pop-up for friends, family, and lovers of well-made craft, cars parked fruit-stand style on the side of the road. Having long outgrown the charming agrarian outpost, it’s returning October 6-8 for its ninth year, drawing design enthusiasts from all corners of the northeast for a now-ep…

This might be the ultimate woodland fairy tale.

Trace the grand and global journey of this decorative tradition, from an ancient experiment in southern China to a 21st-century classic.

All you need are a few good windows and a healthy obsession with stone.

Say hello to our favorite art-inspired finds.

California is a wondrous creative reservoir, and no one is tapping into its riches with more fervor than the decorating stars named as VERANDA’s 2022 Next Legends. The nine aesthetic innovators on this year’s list see vernacular design in the Golden State as experimental, authentic, and above all, rooted in the hues and hallmarks of desert and sea, and in traditions ranging from Hollywood Regency to early Asian influence. Here, meet the furniture designers, passionate preservationists, and all-o…

Meet the masterful decorators serving up exciting, innovative takes on Southern design.

Who needs walls, anyway? Plus, Michael S. Smith's gracious garden seat.