Living room built-ins are an incredible home feature, often offering wonderful closed-door cabinet storage underneath your ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

Jim Tolpin, author of the best-selling “The New Family Home,” is out with his latest, “Built-In Furniture” ($25, Taunton Books, 2001). Tolpin sticks with his proven formula of walking you through ...

From a concrete house in Colombia to a Swiss chalet, the eight living rooms compiled in this lookbook all feature practical built-in sofas. While many designers elect to make the sofa the focal point ...