When a Central New Jersey family of five wanted to update their four-bedroom abode for the first time while indulging the lady of the home’s love for the English countryside, they knew designer Jo Ann Alston would rise to the challenge. “The client required a fresh take on that style’s charm and subtle sophistication without […]

It was a challenge not every pro could meet. Imagine a stoplight flashing both red and green. The homeowner wanted to freshen up the interior of her Verona home but keep a lot of her furniture. She craved the new—and also the familiar. It turned out that Kathryn Cook was just the designer to answer […]

Caroline and Paul Schiavone—she’s Swedish and he’s American—met in Paris, where he was working at the time. They eventually married and moved to London, where they lived for eight years and had their three children. Life in the U.K. was good, but the family eventually found themselves wanting to expand their horizons. On summer vacations […]

A beach house can be a getaway, a sanctuary, a gathering place for friends and family. For a pair of empty nesters who built their dream beach house on a grassy Brant Beach dune, it would be all these things and, eventually, one more: their primary residence. Given that multiplicity of purposes, the home’s interior […]