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The Rise of the Celebrity House Tour and Why We Can't Look Away

Architectural Digest's Open Door has been a YouTube fixture for years and now that it's landed on Netflix, more people are watching it than ever. This is our deep dive on

Room by Room: The Rooms We Forgot and What They Became

There is a category of rooms in the home that nobody talks about when they're house shopping, nobody photographs for Instagram, nobody includes in the conversation about

Room by Room: The Accidental Office

The home office barely existed in residential design fifteen years ago — then the pandemic forced everyone to improvise one overnight, and it’s only now starting to get d

Room by Room: The Bathroom Glow up

The bathroom has had the biggest glow-up in recent home design history — from a utility closet with plumbing to the room everyone wants to live in. Caitlin and Sam trace

Room by Room: The Bedroom - Get Back in Bed, We Need to Talk

The Most Personal Room. The Longest Gap Between Reality and the Dream. You know this room. It's the one you think about constantly and somehow always leave for last. The

The Anti-Staging Movement: Do You Even Live Here?

Something is shifting. After more than a decade of homes being optimized for photography — staged for the grid, flattened into aspirational backdrops, stripped of anythin

Room by Room: The Dining Room Arc

Pull up a chair — an actual dining chair — because this week we're leaving the kitchen counter behind for the room design quietly gave up on for twenty years: the dining

Room by Room: The Kitchen Ate the House

Pull up a chair — make it one near the island, because this week we're staying in the kitchen, the room that's been performing for the camera since the day open shelving

Room by Room: It All Starts in the Living Room

Pull up a chair — an actual one you sit in. This week on The Terrace, we're kicking off our room by room series with the space that has gone through more identity crises

How to Host the Ultimate Summer Soirée

Summer hosting season is officially open. In this episode, Caitlin and Sam are pulling up every lawn chair they own to talk about how to throw the ultimate summer soirée

Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Ceiling Fan

Look around your home right now. Some of it is beautiful. Some of it looks exactly the same as it did in 1974 and absolutely nobody has done anything about it. This week

Home Decor Hot Takes: We Said What We Said

Hot takes only. No hedging, no "it depends," no exceptions. This week on The Terrace, we're pulling up a chair (one you'll actually sit in) and finally saying the quiet p

Performative Decor and the Lies We Tell Ourselves

Be honest. When's the last time you actually sat in that chair? This week on The Terrace, we're getting confessional about performative decor — the art of decorating for

From Concept to Customer

Ever looked at your sofa and thought... wait, where did this actually come from? This week on The Terrace, we're pulling back the curtain on how furniture actually gets m

How A Space Should Make You Feel

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and something is just... off? Or when you can't explain why you love a space, you just do? We've all been there. The probl

The Collab Economy: Real Opinions on Every Drop We're Obsessing Over

The collab economy is officially running the design world — and in this episode, Caitlin and Sam are giving their most honest takes on where it all started, which ones ar

The Sofa Theory: Where to Spend, Where to Save, and the Furniture Mistakes You'll Regret Forever

There's a rule Caitlin and Sam live by: you can never cheap out on your sofa. It's the most-used piece of furniture in your home, and the foundation of every good gatheri

How to Host Like You've Got Your Life Together

Your home is always ready to welcome people. Or at least, it could be — and that's exactly what this episode is about. This week, Caitlin and Sam are getting into everyt

Vintage vs Buying New: The Eternal Debate

Is vintage always better, or does buying new still have its place? This week Caitlin and Sam settle the debate once and for all — and yes, they disagree on a few things.

The Great Beige Breakup

The Big Beige Breakup: Is Millennial Beige Timeless or Time-Stamped? Discover whether Millennial Beige is a timeless design choice or merely a trend. Learn about its ori