How to Design a Dining Room

A gallery wall and an eclectic metallic light fixture elevate this formal dining room designed by Achille Salvagni and lend dramatic detail. GIANNI FRANCHELLUCCI Each week Mansion Global tackles an interior design topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week we look at how to design … Read more

Two-bedroom Cape Cod includes room to grow

Oversized 2-car, detached garage has covered porch Contributing Writer Sitting up three steps from the sidewalk along the one-way avenue of the Dayton Eastern Hills neighborhood is this aluminum and frame Cape Cod. Listed for $49,900 by Domescik and Associates Inc., the two-bedroom home, at 1738 Tuttle Ave., has about 1,075 square feet of living … Read more

MPs’ Westminster dining room and bar to become ‘pop-up restaurant’

A London restaurant with “a sense of grandeur and political intrigue unlike any other” is set to open up for three days next month – inside the Houses of Parliament. Diners will be able to sample the “top-end British cuisine” usually only available to high profile politicians in February, if they can snap up a … Read more

How Blogger Louise Roe Saved Thousands (!) on Her Dining Room Table

When Louise Roe went looking for a dining room table last year, she started where a lot of us do—by noting what she liked best about the options she could find, cobbling them into a perfect (but nonexistent) table design in her head. “I had the image in my mind of the table I wanted,” the news-editor-turned-style … Read more

Elderly couple find deadly snake in dining room

AN elderly couple who found one of the deadliest snakes in the world in their dining room did the right thing by calling an expert, a Townsville snake catcher said.  Exiled snake saved from starvation Joe Mackereth was called out to a residential home in Condon on Wednesday about noon to reports of an eastern brown … Read more

How to create a year-round garden:take a tour of the ultimate ‘outdoor room’ designed by Abigail Ahern

‘ With a coffee table overhung with a chandelier, a snug two-seater and curvy armchairs ranged around a fireplace, as well as a kitchen and dining table, Abigail Ahern’s back garden has to be the ultimate outdoor room. When she moved to Hackney with husband Graham 13 years ago, Ahern, an accomplished interior designer but … Read more