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There's a particular challenge that comes with designing a large home: making it feel like a warm, intimate, inviting home. With more space comes more possibility, but also the risk of a house feeling cold, empty, or disconnected. Expansive rooms can become overwhelming when every space is treated independently or scale is considered simply by making everything bigger. For us, creating warmth starts long before the furniture plan. It begins in the early planning stages, with decisions about...

LNS Project 21 When you're designing or renovating a home for a growing family, it's easy to focus on what you need right now. A nursery. A playroom. More storage. Perhaps a larger kitchen or an extra bedroom. But the way we live changes much faster than the walls around us. Children grow. Routines shift. Work changes. Families expand—or children eventually move out. The spaces that work perfectly today may need to do something entirely different five or ten years from now. For us,...

We spend so much of our lives at home, yet it’s easy to overlook how much our surroundings affect the way we feel and move through our day. The way a space is laid out, the natural light it receives, where everyday things are stored, and even the materials we live with can influence how organized we feel, how easily our routines flow, and how we connect with the people around us. I’m a firm believer that a home should do more than look beautiful. It should support your life, not create more...