Elyse Moody

Shop & Tell features thoughtfully curated home finds from House Beautiful editors. Every week we’ll take you inside our carts and dish on what we’re buying—and why you should be reaching for your wallet too.Unofficially spanning from May to September, we are well in the trenches of wedding season. And for those getting married throughout this summer, determining what to put on your wedding registry is much more than something to tick off of your to-do list. Traditionally, wedding registries were…

Fun furniture and happy, polished prints fill the space.

Spoiler: My dad, who’s an HVAC pro, approves of it.

Victorian houses owe much of their charm to their steeply pitched roofs with features like multiple gables, dormers, unique windows, and charming porches. They’re wonderful to admire from the street, but they can be a challenge for homeowners—and not just when it comes time to replace the roof or windows. All those angles make designing functional interior rooms tricky. That’s partly why a circa 1900 beauty in Avalon, New Jersey, had only one bedroom and bathroom on its third floor—no one had be…

File this one under New York City apartment quirks: When designer Christina Salway cleared out her family’s Brooklyn townhouse—which had been piled floor to ceiling with decades of junk when they bought the abandoned property—she found a sink and a gas stove in one of the bedroom closets. The place had essentially been subdivided into makeshift apartments for different members of the prior owners’ family, who lived there for 90 years. Her challenge, then, became turning the ramshackle house back…

Certain colors and shapes, less clutter—we all know how those aspects of design can make us feel happier and healthier. North Carolina-based designer Ashley Ross is digging deeper: She’s exploring how filling our homes with culture—which she defines as “the beliefs, traditions, and practices passed down through generations, including manners, language, religion, rituals, and art”—can support our well-being. Through her design firm, Muse Noire Interiors, she aims to show her clients how they bene…

I love watching authentic journeys,” says Chrissy Jones. That’s how she sees each of her projects—and an apt description for how she came to be the owner of her own L.A. design firm, Twenty-Eighth Design Studio, with more than 15,000 followers on Instagram. Known for her refined, textural, neutral-leaning spaces, Jones is self-taught, or, as she likes to say, “I’m a student of the trade.” She started her career in entertainment PR, marketing, and communications but had always been obsessed with…

Overall design merriment” is what Maggie Dillon does best. That’s the quality she loves in her favorite designers’ work, and we see it as a through line in her own. This aficionado of color and pattern mixing isn’t afraid to push boundaries. “Paying attention to scale and tone, there are a few rules that you can really break, and it can open up a whole exciting world of possibilities,” Dillon says. If you love green velvet, pink walls, and floral wallpaper, prepare to meet your new design crush.…

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Every artist needs light and color. A historic ranch in the Forest Hills section of Nashville was missing those key elements when painter Elizabeth Stern bought it in 2020, but it had other unique charms. For starters, it had barely been touched since it was built in 1950—a renovator’s dream. Then there was the property, more than eight acres (yes, within city limits), including a poolhouse and barn—structures now more difficult to build thanks to zoning restrictions. Stern saw an opportunity an…