Wetter Is Better

See it, hear it, love it: Water features make a splash

Lisa Rovito Home & Design, Interior Design, Real Estate

Water features for the home have taken off for the same reason so many of us love to go to the ocean. Whether from a multi-tiered fountain or a crashing waterfall, you can see and hear the water, but you can also feel it and smell it. And that’s as refreshing at home as it is on your beach vacation.

Everything in its Place

Use our A–to–Z guide to align your home with some of feng shui’s smartest principles

Anita Rosenberg Home & Design, Interior Design, Real Estate

Living with feng shui can improve your health, enhance your love life, empower your business, and help you create your personal nirvana one room at a time. (Its techniques for polish and placement may even make it easier to sell your house.) Good feng shui is a lifestyle choice, and working with — rather than against or unaware of — its powerful energies promotes success.

A River Runs Through It

A soothing stretch of flowing water sets the tone for modern simplicity

Samantha Comby Home & Design, Interior Design, Real Estate

A terrific designer and fabulous architect mean little without the right clients. When the owners of this Rancho Mirage custom home hired designer Sam Cardella and architect Ana Escalante, the pair of professionals was thrilled to discover two undemanding clients who trusted them completely.