During the first month at my new apartment in Brooklyn, my bedroom was doorless. In typical brownstone fashion, my apartment is a 1.5-bedroom, meaning there’s one big bedroom with a small room ...

Belgian architect Arthur Verraes’s family home, a rehabbed wreck in Ghent, is filled with design ideas writ large. But one of its humblest details has been on my mind for months: Verraes sectioned off ...