The Style That Isn't a Style 'Eclectic' is the interior design category that contains everything that doesn't fit neatly into a named style — the room with a Victorian settee, a mid-century lamp, a contemporary sofa, a traditional oil painting, and a modern abstract print. Applied without principle, this category produces rooms that read as random; applied with underlying organizational intelligence, it produces rooms that...

The Room That Has to Do the Most The family room — the casual main living space where the household gathers for television, games, conversation, children's play, and the general togetherness of daily family life — is the room whose design most directly affects daily quality of life, and the one most frequently designed for appearance rather than for the specific activities it needs to...