home design ideas

Fitted with twin mattresses, these World Market daybeds turn the living space into a guest room when needed. The walls of the charming loft are painted Silver White by Glidden.

In the library of this New York home, the owner unified mismatched wingback chairs with floral brocade upholstery and burlap cushions. The walls are painted Spanish Moss by Restoration Hardware.

The owner of this Texas home fashioned the frame of the daybed using a $25 flea market door and pallets. The pillowcases? Old grain sacks, natch.

The owner of this vintage California cottage nabbed this wool HD Buttercup sofa for half the price, and searched for the midcentury teak table on Craigslist.

The owner and designer of this DIY Wyoming home had styled window displays in the past, so she also understood how to make everything look great with items culled from thrift shops.

The neutral palette of this North Carolina house is enlivened by mixing in a variety of textures the coffee tables reclaimed wood, a nubby sea grass rug, and a steel lamp base forged from a car jack. Design Legacy linen curtains, printed with an antique script, and striped pillows introduce subtle hints of pattern. I wanted a living room that felt calming, not boring,

Cost Plus World Market bargains a leather sofa and armchair, and a coffee table furnish the living room in this Idaho cabin. The kilim rug is from Catherine Lane Interiors in Livingston, Montana. Floor to ceiling windows frame mountains in every direction, and squared, rather than rounded, logs create clean lined walls.

The aesthetic of the upstate New York home of Country Livings editor, Sarah Gray Miller, took shape based on whatever she discovered at antiques shops or her rural auction house: birdcages, floral frogs, Victorian sofas, cryptic portraits. A palette of grays and browns creates a neutral, yet still dramatic, backdrop for the cabinet of curiosities vibe.

The owners of this Tennessee home filled in the blanks with new upholstered furniture that wears relaxed, washable slipcovers. Although the family rooms Persian rug might look fancy, it secured its prime spot based on practicality. The pattern masks spills! the owner explains.

Shabby Chic sofas square off across a zinc topped coffee table in the living room of this Texas ranch. A Jim Torok painting hangs above the mantel. The walls are painted Shaded White by Farrow & Ball.