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Realtor.comAn eye-popping structure in Glastonbury, CT, that appears to be floating among the trees is this week's most popular home on Realtor.com®.The Cedar Bridge House was designed by architect Wilfred Armster and appears to hover some 50 feet above the wooded lot, anchored to a steel support structure above the garage.

Realtor.com Designed by architect Thomas Phifer and completed in 2008, the home was commissioned by the late Thomas N. Armstrong III, a former Whitney Museum of American Art director, and his late wife.Phifer's other projects include the forthcoming Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the Corning Museum of Glass's 2015 expansion.

Realtor.comThe oh, so familiar residence that served as the exterior for sitcom stalwart " The Brady Bunch" is this week's most popular home on Realtor.com®.Other homes you clicked on this week include a Nantucket-inspired home in Connecticut, an entire island in North Carolina, and a cheap antique in Illinois that includes houseguests.

California studio Kadre Architects has used bold graphics and vibrant colours to transform a dilapidated motel into The Alvarado, which offers beds for families experiencing homelessness.Designed by local firm Kadre Architects, the adaptive reuse project involved converting a 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-metre) motel built in 1984 into a shelter for families transitioning out of homelessness in LA's Westlake neighbourhood, one block north of MacArthur Park.

Realtor.comOn these cold and dreary winter days when the temperature is plunging, many of us begin to envy bears in the wild, who just take a long nap that lasts till spring.It's a fine idea.But since hibernation isn't an option for humans, why not indulge in dreams of cozy log cabins, where weekends can even stretch to seven days long?

When D'Artagnan Catellier and Eric Struchen bought this 1904 Victorian rowhouse in Bloomingdale, they knew it had potential.The couple-they're both 45, and Catellier is a technology director and Struchen is a merchandising manager-was living in a Shaw rowhouse at the time and ready for a home with more windows and natural light in a quieter neighborhood.

Realtor.com "Although it was built half a century ago, it's exactly what people seem to be looking for today," says listing agent Barbie Dan, with Ware Jones Realtors."Most people that looked at it really saw the beauty of the simplicity."The well-maintained home hit the market in early April, with a list price of $575,000 and is pending sale.

For our latest lookbook, we've picked eight interiors that are blanketed in shades of red that include an office in Belgium, a bar toilet in London and a mansion in Mexico.The colour red is most commonly associated with activity, passion, sexuality, love and joy.In this lookbook Dezeen has highlighted ways in which interior designers and architects have used the colour in different interior settings.

Italian architecture studio Network of Architecture creates a stunning hillside extension to the Olympic Spa Hotel, located in the Dolomites in Val di Fassa, Italy.The extension is defined by a sweeping and sloping roof that is inspired by the mountain skyline of the Alps.It is designed to be "in symbiosis" with the landscape.

Image Le Rhodia, a new cafe-restaurant in Paris's Bourdelle Museum, features family-style tables with ceramic bases by the Brittany-based artist Cyril Dennery and handmade rice paper lighting fixtures by the designer Celine Wright.Credit...Marielle Gaudry This spring, the recently renovated Bourdelle Museum in Paris's Montparnasse district opened a luminous new cafe-restaurant, Le Rhodia, named after the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's daughter.

A sweeping roof inspired by the mountain skyline of the Alps defines a hillside extension to the Olympic Spa Hotel by Network of Architecture.Designed to be "in symbiosis" with the landscape, the addition to the hotel in the Dolomites in Val di Fassa, Italy, houses ten new guest suites and a gym.

Realtor.comThe unofficial start of summer if finally upon us, and not a moment too soon!School is (almost) out, the sun is high, and surf and sand are calling.Thoughts of your own little beach house might be very much on your mind, especially over this long holiday weekend.But then reality intrudes: Who can afford that?

Eva-Katalin If you're selling your home, you're probably going to consider investing some money in a sprucing-up that the pros call home staging.Staging can be a cost-effective way to get a quick sale.If you don't fancy yourself a design-minded individual, fear not; there are professional home stagers for that.

If you even have a hangnail on the pulse of decor trends the last several years, you've probably noticed the reemergence of plain field tiling treatments escaping the prescribed trappings of the kitchen and bathroom to sneak into every surface and corner of the home.Tiles can be found unironically adorning seemingly everything these days, from side tables to coffee tables to lighting, and now for the musically-inclined, a hi-fi turntable stand.

Driven by the client's requests, David Ito Arquitetura designed the modern NCC Apartment in São Paulo, Brazil embracing biophilic design through plants, light, and materials, while creating sophisticated social areas and cozy private spaces.Longing to tear down the original home, clients requested a new, larger home in the same spot that evoked the same feelings as the one demolished.

British hotel chain Birch has opened an outpost in south London, with grounds rewilded by designer Sebastian Cox and interiors conceived by local studios A-nrd and Sella Concept.Birch Selsdon is housed in a 19th-century mansion in the borough of Croydon and accommodates 181 rooms alongside a wellness space and lido, co-working facilities and a medley of restaurants and bars.

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In a situation sadly not atypical of our evolving borough, Keren Richter's clients had bought what she called a "quintessential old brick townhouse" from a developer who had "completely gutted it, leaving no historic detail."

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In 2018, when interior designer Jenna Chused of Dumbo-based Chused & Co. decided her family of four should quit their cramped two-bedroom apartment and look in earnest for a permanent home, an elegant grand dame townhouse with soaring ceilings and a full complement of marble mantels was the first one they saw.

California-based studio Gustave Carlson Design was hired to renovate a local Eichler house in need of updating.Built in 1971 in the Palo Alto hills, the prized single family residence was a custom commission by architect John S. Lynd, a close friend of Joseph Eichler.Currently owned by a design-forward family with a large art collection, the house received a respectful renovation that honored the history while adapting it for modern times.

Realtor.com Newly arrived on the market, it's "the quintessential Usonian house," says listing agent Albert Safdie, of Coldwell Banker Realty.He's co-listing with Marsha Charles, also of Coldwell Banker Realty.The seven-bedroom, 8.5-bath house was built in 1956 and has an equally large $8 million price tag.

Realtor.com Located in Simpsonville, SC, the 16,000-square-foot home sits on a sprawling 54 acres designed for the horse lover.Dubbed Circle Creek Estate, the massive property features world-class equestrian amenities, including three riding arenas, and a 12-stall barn inspired by Old World Europe.'Hand-built from scratch'
Built in 2014, the six-bedroom estate was designed to resemble an English manor.

Most San Francisco residents will never step foot in one of the city's storied mansions.But once a year, a luxury home opens up to the public to view not only a stunning property but also what the rooms inside would look like with some of the Bay Area's most celebrated interior designers at your fingertips.

Realtor.comThe property includes a main house, guesthouses, a barbecue area, pool, an event hall, and gated access to Saguaro National Park-all for $5.95 million."There's nothing in the area like it," says listing agent Adrianne Burnell, with Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices.She sold the place to the current owners in 2010 for $1.6 million.

Mortgage broker: Liz Bayer, ProMortgage.Property type: Condo in Foster City.Appraised value: $740,000.Loan amount: $717,800.Loan type: 30-year fixed.Rate: 5.88%.APR: 6.32%.Backstory: A past client who is an immigration attorney referred one of her clients to me, who had a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) status and wanted to buy her first home.

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Q: I live on the top floor of a seven-story Manhattan co-op, with windows facing the back of the building.The first-floor rear shareholders have decks outside their apartments.Frequently, the smell of marijuana enters my apartment, either from people using their decks or from people with open windows.

Located in a 1962 building in São Paulo, the Terrace Apartment is designed for modern times by Estudio Guto Requena.The Brazilian firm redesigned the apartment into one filled with flexible and reconfigurable spaces that adapt for different uses.To meet the owner's request of having a balcony in a building without them, they transformed the whole apartment to feel like an indoor/outdoor space with plants throughout, even hanging from the ceiling.

This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes.Interior design, an art form vulnerable to owners' changing tastes and the frailties of fabrics and wallpapers, is often appreciated only fleetingly, or in retrospect.Several recent books capture this evanescence in the ghosts of an abandoned crafts community, the inspirations of a 20th-century maverick decorator, the rocking decks of floating homes and the ever-evolving ambience of plant-filled rooms.

When King Charles III is crowned on May 6, the world will witness, for the first time since his mother's coronation in 1953, a ceremony that packs more than 1,000 years of British pomp and pageantry into a single day.But for some people, one day might not be enough.Britain teems with castles that offer travelers a chance to walk the same halls and sleep in the same quarters as monarchs of days gone by.

The 360 Studio is a cozy 430-square-foot apartment located in a new, modern building in Rivne, Ukraine.Designed by , the compact studio consists of one room that works as a kitchen, dining space, living room, and bedroom.To maximize space, the bed is hidden when not in use and when it's time for sleep, the room transitions into a bedroom.

On the shores of Lac de Joux in Vaud, Switzerland, Ralph Germann architectes designed House EMGD, a modern lake house built for two.The clients requested that all main rooms look out to the water without obstructed sight lines, a challenge when it came to engineering.Longing to keep things simple, the architect looked to old boathouses for inspiration, where the lake is the focus and not the interiors.

As they were facing middle age, we saw them struggle to resolve conflicts, but they never doubted the strength of their connection to each other or the value they placed on their friendship.Clearly, they felt more at home with each other than with anyone else in their lives.And it was clear that the actresses who helped make the film relished the opportunity to create more complicated and authentic characters than what they were offered in Hollywood.

King Charles' state visit to Paris has been postponed amid mass strikes and protests, the French president's office has said.The king had been scheduled to arrive in France on Sunday on his first state visit as monarch, before heading to Germany on Wednesday.In a statement, the Elysee Palace said the decision to postpone the visit had been taken by the French and British governments following a telephone conversation between Emmanuel Macron and Charles on Friday morning after mass protests against the French government.

Two people pivotal in saving one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's historic tea rooms in the heart of Scotland's largest city have been made MBEs.Celia Sinclair Thornqvist and Professor Pamela Robertson have both been given the rank as part of the King's New Year Honours in recognition of their work helping to restore the Scottish architect's original Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street.

Striking workers in France are refusing to provide red carpets for King Charles's first overseas trip as monarch amid protests over rises to the pension age.French trade union CGT announced this week that its members at Mobilier National, the institution in charge of providing flags, red carpets and furniture for public buildings, would not help prepare a reception for the king upon his arrival in Paris on Sunday.

Passover, known in Hebrew as pesach, is the Jewish holiday about the celebration of the biblical story of the exodus from Egypt; this year, Passover runs from April 5 to April 13.Whether you're looking to help expedite seder cooking with some catered takeout supplements or dine at a restaurant with a special meal for the occasion, there are plenty of Passover-appropriate dining options to be found, free of chametz, leavened bread.

For this special lookbook sponsored by Danish design company D Line, we've selected ten interiors that showcase architectural details by the brand including door handles, taps and drawer pulls.Door furniture and other pieces of practical hardware provide the finishing touches to interior schemes, and can create physical touchpoints that play a significant role in how people interact with the spaces they inhabit.

A residence for retirees in Tel Aviv and a stripped-back Barbican apartment by minimalist architect John Pawson feature in this lookbook of beige interiors designed to bring a sense of calm into the home.To compensate for their desaturated colour palette, these spaces rely on a varied material palette - ranging from pale timbers and limestone to textured plaster - in order to add visual and tactile interest.

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Inflation and several other key sectors of the economy had pushed the Federal Reserve to hike rates at the fastest pace in decades.When it looked like the data might provide some relief, rates quickly moderated.Strangely (or so it seemed at the time), the Fed was highly reluctant to read too much into several months of generally more palatable data.

The Boston Globe Salvaged components of a forgotten home have had a second life in Ware, and are reminders of the communities that were destroyed nearly a century ago.When Elena Palladino and her husband, Matt, were house-hunting in 2015, they couldn't help but fall in love with a stately Colonial they found in Ware.

LA-based furniture designer Jialun Xiong has completed her first restaurant interior in the city for 19 Town, achieving a retro-futurist look by pairing soft hues and metallic surfaces.Serving Chinese fusion food, the 19 Town restaurant is located in an industrial area close to Downtown LA.The name is a play on words from a phrase in Mandarin, signifying a venue that has food and wine according to Xiong, who is originally from Chongqing.

Vaulted ceilings and earth-toned furnishings feature in this house in Puglia, which architecture practice Studio Andrew Trotter has converted from a 19th-century school.The home, named Casolare Scarani, transforms a girls' school dating back to 1883 that was abandoned in the 1960s.Through its renovation, Studio Andrew Trotter aims to bring life back to the structure while retaining its original character.

Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first Black women to be hired as a reporter at The New York Times and The Washington Post, died on Dec. 5 at an assisted living complex in Tuckahoe, N.Y.She was 83.Her nephew Scott Taylor said the cause was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

London design office A-nrd has used a palette of neutral and natural materials to give this restaurant in Soho a laidback atmosphere reminiscent of an Australian beach club.Milk Beach Soho is the brainchild of Sydney-born restaurateur Elliot Milne, who wanted to create an all-day eatery and night-time hotspot influenced by some of Australia's casual dining venues.

Spanish architecture and interior design studio Isern Serra kept to a material palette of concrete, quartz and stainless steel to create this pared-back office for Reisinger Studio
Located in the Poblenou neighbourhood in Barcelona, digital artist Andrés Reisinger's studio is surrounded by several other creative's offices and is designed to reflect the artist's minimalist, dreamlike style.

Plush velvet upholstery, Moroccan rugs and chinoiserie-style ottomans feature in this lookbook of hotel interiors that use saturated jewel colours to bridge the gap between cosiness and luxury.Shades of ruby red, cobalt blue and emerald can help to create interiors that are rich in depth and dimension, especially when accompanied by tactile materials such as silk or leather.

Beijing architecture studio Crossboundaries has carried out "a full makeover" of a boat to create a tiny solar-powered house named Fàng Sōng.Transformed from the client's existing houseboat, the 60-square-metre home by is moored in Berlin and features a series of interlinked, adaptable spaces.

Over the course of a year, designer Luca Nichetto renovated a 1940s pink villa to become his new studio in Stockholm, Sweden.No signs are on display - it looks like a regular house to the average passerby - but the locals now know of it as the Pink Villa.While its pink exterior definitely piques curiosity, it's the interior that really draws you in.

Montreal studio ACDF Architecture has designed a low-slung, modernist-style home with massing shaped to surround an apple tree and provide lines of sight through the living areas.The project is located in St-Donat, a rural area near Montreal that serves as a popular getaway from the city.The all-black home, surrounded by a boreal forest, is made up of a square surrounding a small courtyard that contains an apple tree that reminded the client of their childhood.

Emirati studio VSHD Design has completed a dark and dramatic interior for a restaurant in The Dubai Mall, featuring a pared-back palette of natural materials chosen to reflect Japanese minimalism.Origami is a sushi restaurant, whose first outpost opened in Dubai's Jumeriah neighbourhood in 2014.For its second branch, the owners asked VSHD Design to create a space that provides a unique experience within the cookie-cutter environment of a shopping mall.

This art and design gallery in Venice, California occupies a former private house where interiors by designer Gabriella Kuti provide a warm, neutral backdrop for the works on show.Maison Lune was co-founded by French artist and designer Sandrine Abessera and Ukrainian fashion designer Lubov Azria, who set about creating a "dream home, where beauty rules".

Realtor.com December might be the merriest month, but it can also be the most stressful.You have all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, plus the pressure of trying to get everything done by the end of the year.Doesn't your own private island sound ideal right now?An intimate place where you can kick back around the seaside fire pit, throw a line in the water, catch a fish, and be free from the stresses and strains of everyday life.

Realtor.comA beachfront home with three swimming pools but no real kitchen has hit the market for just under $6 million.Ron Rice, founder of sun-lotion company Hawaiian Tropic, built the Ormond Beach, FL, spread in 1987 as a party palace.Known as the "Suntan King," Rice died in May at the age of 81.