Curated By Hower
Modern home decor and interior design from a working furniture industry perspective. Every guide on Curated by Hower is written by Tereza Hower, founder of the site and former owner of Hower Furniture in Los Angeles, with over a decade of hands on experience selling and recommending the kinds of pieces this blog covers.
Below you’ll find the full archive of posts, including complete style guides for the most popular interior design movements, room by room design and renovation guides, foundational buyer’s guides for the pieces that anchor a home, and honest product reviews and roundups. Browse the full archive below, or use the category links in the navigation to focus on a specific room, style, or design approach.
If you’re new here, three good places to start are the modern living room guide, the modern bedroom guide, and the complete guide to Bohemian interior design.
The latest guides and updates, hand picked from the past few days.
A paint chip is two inches square and lit by a store’s ceiling tubes. A living room wall is closer…
September 28, 2026
Put a plain white bookcase from a flat pack box next to a white oak cabinet with flush doors and…
September 25, 2026
The chair nobody sits in is the most common piece of furniture in a living room. It was bought to…
September 23, 2026
Filter by living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, dining room, or outdoor for room-specific guides, or browse by Bohemian, mid-century modern, Japandi, or minimalist for style-focused content.
Hand Curated
Posts I keep coming back to. The ones that have generated the best reader response, taught me the most while writing them, or quietly anchor everything else on the site.
The sofa is the highest stakes purchase in most living rooms. It is the largest piece of furniture in the room, the most expensive single item, and the one that…
Most rooms that call themselves mid-century modern are wearing a costume. Three walnut pieces with the same chunky tapered legs, a starburst clock, a sunburst mirror, and the effect is…
One of the small pleasures of running Hower Furniture was watching which pieces customers brought up again, years after the original purchase. Sofas got reupholstered. Sectionals got swapped. But certain…
Modern living room design has been simplified into a furniture catalog and a paint chip in most online guides, which is why most modern living rooms end up looking the…
Your bedroom is the one room in the house that belongs entirely to you. It is where the day starts and ends, where you rest, recharge, and finally exhale. Yet…
The coffee table is the most physically abused piece of furniture in the house and the one customers spent the longest deciding on at Hower Furniture. Feet up, drinks down,…