Marni Elyse Katz

Living room with light blue walls and ceiling beams, featuring a lit fireplace with a sailboat painting above it. The room includes a patterned armchair, a coral sectional sofa with floral pillows, a glass coffee table with a vase of flowers and decorative items, and a blue accent wall adorned with a four-panel artwork depicting birds and branches.
Home & Property

This Marblehead Neck Cottage Swaps Nautical Neutrals for Coastal Whimsy

A former North Shore summer escape finds functionality, fun, and joy as a forever home for a Massachusetts family of four.

Green-painted wooden bunk beds with wooden railings, featuring blue and pink patterned bedding. A large window with green trim lets in natural light, illuminating a room with light blue marbled wallpaper. A vintage-style hanging lamp with fringe is suspended from the ceiling. Two colorful circular abstract paintings are partially visible on the right wall.
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How Do You Fit Four Grandkids in One Bedroom? Triple Bunk Beds.

In a 151-square-foot bedroom for four, the only way to go was up.

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How Do You Transform a Family Room? Ceiling Wallpaper.

Designer Whitney Talsma transformed a pine-colored Southborough room with overhead flowers and chartreuse drapes.

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This South End Home Is a Vintage Curator’s Dream

The design scheme of a Boston duplex living space takes cues from its world-traveler owner’s collections.

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A Wellesley Colonial Gets a Sophisticated Earth-Toned Makeover

Softness and strength are the defining motifs for this three-woman household.

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A Cambridge Condo Glows Up

Designer Jill Najnigier suffuses warmth into an all-too-white Cambridge condominium with well-placed wood accents and colorful art.

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A Historic Chestnut Hill Home Gets a Timeless Transformation

Stephanie Freeman brings modernity and easy living appeal to a manor-meets-Tudor-style home without overtaking its intrinsic nature.

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A 1740s Weston Farmhouse Gets a Vivid Transformation

Offbeat color combinations and plenty of pattern provide a fresh backdrop for family furnishings and a sprinkling of new in a carefully expanded 18th-century Massachusetts home.

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Stephanie Terfloth Wagner Designs For Timeless Harmony

Standout textiles inform schemes that balance old and new for a color-loving couple in the South End.

Weddings

They Met at Boston City Hall. Then the Attorney General Married Them.

Sebastian Zapata asked Gabriela Coletta out for coffee in 2018, to talk about “housing policy.” Now, she’s a City Councilor and Andrea Campbell officiated their Danvers farm wedding.

Weddings

Daring and Demure

Corsets, draping, Basque waists, and bows make strong showings for 2025, along with ball skirts, either princess-style or with a slit.

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Inside a Concord Colonial: Modern European Elegance Meets Historic Architecture

Designer Sarah Scales brings Barcelona-inspired minimalism to a 10,000-square-foot Massachusetts estate.

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Best of Boston Home 2025

Drumroll, please! Here are the best of the best—the most discerning architects, builders, designers, craftspeople, and retailers around Greater Boston and beyond.

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Designer Taryn Bone Brings Dark Elegance to a Somerville Kitchen

Sleek and a little bit sexy, in this kitchen, the whole is greater than its parts.

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On the Dark Side

A designer and homeowner bond over the color black amid rattan, fringe, and fur.