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  Before & After: A Surprising Home Springs Up in a Basic Barcelona Storefront

  dwell - Melissa Dalton

  Architect Paula Herrero transformed the run-down space with a pop-out bedroom and a sculptural staircase for a designer who turns fire hoses into furniture. For Marcela Lozano, reinvention comes naturally. As she was growing up in Argentina, her family had a common refrain: ¿Para que podrá servir …

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  If You’re Looking for Something Extra, This $2.2M Georgia Home Has a Little Bit of Everything

  dwell - Will Allstetter

  The International Style home is packed to the brim with colorful walls, cottagecore curtains, kitschy lighting, and pink porcelain bath fixtures. Location: 102 East 45th Street, Savannah, Georgia Price: $2,225,000 Year Built: 1947 Architect: Cletus Bergen Footprint: 4,088 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3.5 …

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  4 days ago

  This $5.5M L.A. Midcentury Has Reimagined Interiors and a Brand-New Pool

  dwell - Will Allstetter

  Local firm Ome Dezin saved the post-and-beam ceilings and brick fireplace while bringing in ribbed grass, a circular skylight, and a built-in kitchen banquette. Location: 708 N Kenter Ave, Los Angeles, California Price: $5,498,000 Year Built: 1956 Renovation Date: 2025 Renovation Designers: Joelle …

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  Designers Are Creating At-Home Pet Spas for Their Dog-Obsessed Clients

  dwell - Grace Bernard

  As the family pet has morphed into the “fur baby,” designers are making washing the dog easier—and more beautiful. When I was a kid, bath time for animals meant rinsing Ellie, our family’s eager-to-please Yorkie-poo, in an unfinished concrete sink or, during one misguided incident, plunging our …

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  This Rooftop Greenhouse Is the Ideal Work-From-Home Space for a Plant-Loving Uruguayan Couple

  dwell - Paola Singer

  Amalia Branaa Donner and Uzi Sabah renovated a midcentury house to embrace nature—with the help of an architect they found in Dwell. When Amalia Branaa Donner and Uzi Sabah moved from Los Angeles to Montevideo, Uruguay, their hometown, at the height of the pandemic, they had to find a rental …

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  A Record Label Cofounder Cues Up a Second Take for a Hollywood Hills Midcentury

  dwell - Janelle Zara

  Local design studio The Curator used earth tones and handmade finishes to compose a wabi-sabi revamp for Sean Famoso and his tiny goldendoodle, Hellcat. When Sean Famoso, cofounder of LVRN Records, started searching for a second home in Los Angeles, he knew exactly what he was—and wasn’t—looking …