Luxury Living & Home Lifestyle
Aspirational tours, the year ahead in design, and the homes of the architects and names who set the tone.
In Luxury Living
Home Bar Ideas for Luxury Homes: Ready for Holiday Hosting
The best home bars in luxury homes work like a quiet service station: wine at the right temperature, ice worth serving, glassware within reach, and a layout that keeps the host in the conversation. Here is how to set one up before the holidays.
Fire Pits and Outdoor Fireplaces for Luxury Homes: A Fall Guide
A well-planned fire feature turns a fall terrace into the best room in the house after dark. Here is how luxury homes plan fire pits and outdoor fireplaces for fuel, placement, seating, and safety, with nothing that reads as backyard kit.
Guest Suites in Luxury Homes: What Buyers Want Now
The best guest suites in luxury homes don't make a show of hospitality. They get the basics right: a good bed, real darkness, less noise, and somewhere to put a suitcase.
Inside Luxury Living
Every luxury living story files into one of these sub-categories.
Trends 2026
The movements actually shaping how the top of the market builds and renovates this year — materials, layouts, wellness architecture and the return of the formal room.
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Celebrity & Architect Homes
The houses built by the people who set the tone — architect-authored residences and the homes of the names collectors follow.
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Home Tours
Room-by-room tours of extraordinary houses, with the architects, designers and specified pieces named in full.
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Destination Living
Where the luxury home market lives — the resort towns, coastal enclaves and cities worth holding a key to.
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Seasonal Living
How a great house changes with the calendar — extending the terrace into cold weather, entertaining once the evenings draw in, and the maintenance that protects everything before winter.
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Private Recovery Circuit: What Buyers Tour for in Sauna, Plunge, and Rest Rooms
Buyers touring luxury homes want more than a spa tub now. They're checking whether the sauna, the cold plunge and the room you rest in afterward actually work as one routine.
Staging Luxury Homes for Editorial Listing Photos
In the luxury market, the first showing usually happens on a phone. Here's how to edit, light and style a listing so the photos look like a design feature before the photographer arrives.
Beyond the Patio: Designing an Outdoor Living Space for the Fall Season
The best outdoor rooms aren't built for summer only. With the right structure, heat, lighting and weather-ready materials, a terrace can stay one of the most-used rooms in the house well into fall.
The Art of Autumn Entertaining: Creating a Home Designed for Memorable Gatherings
The best fall gatherings are polished but relaxed. From drinks by the fire to a layered table, here's how to host an autumn evening that feels easy and personal.
The Luxury Home Fall Maintenance Edit: Improvements That Protect Beauty and Value
A well-kept estate looks effortless because the important systems get checked before they turn into visible problems. Here's our fall checklist for protecting a luxury home's architecture, collections, comfort and value before winter.
Home Tour: A Glass Pavilion Above the Pacific
Inside a Malibu house where retractable walls open a soft linen living room onto forty feet of private beach.
The 2026 Luxury Home Trends Report
Honest materials, wellness built into the architecture and the return of the formal room: the eight shifts shaping high-end interiors this year.