The Artful Lifestyle

Decor + Design
10 tips for a successful renovation
Is there a fixer-upper in your future? If so, we wish you bonne chance and a soupçon of patience, plenty of good luck - and the golden ticket: a good contractor.
We love a renovation and the extr...

Fave Destinations
Board meeting in Paris
This is what we sound like to others:
“Did you get the thing from what’s his name?”
“Yes, and I left it on your desk next to the folder about the …”
“Oh right? Did she sign that or are we …”
“… n...

Art
Can this marriage be saved?
Or, How to Buy Art with Your Spouse (without Ruining Your Marriage) – an important topic for all married art lovers!
It happens a lot: Cute couple comes in to gallery looking for a large painting ...

Artist Profile
2018 painting in Provence: with Allison Chambers
We know it's months away but we're already thinking about one of our favorite weeks in Provence. It's when we collect a group of enthusiastic and excited painters and one talented instructor to sp...

Entertaining
Secret Santa's peeps' picks
It’s our favorite day of the year … when Secret Santas visit the Huffingtons, with a fun and festive Christmas celebration.
The preparations are intense: For several weeks, Huffington elves scurry ...

Tips + Secrets
How to style a coffee table
We’re just back from a very fun and exciting installation in Paris (stay tuned for more on that soon, with photos), where we had the pleasure of designing a lovely one-bedroom apartment with a kill...

Decor + Design
Building a dream house in Provence
We probably should have just looked the other way, but we are Huffingtons, and “we” like a project! So when a choice piece of buildable land came up for sale in the highly coveted and very restri...

Seasonal
Making that holiday magic
It’s that time of year again – and the calendars are full: parties and dinners to be thrown; visitors to entertained at home; gifts to be wrapped and delivered; and all kinds of gatherings to be en...

Art
Painting in Provence
Sometimes we wish we could be a fly on the wall during Linda's artist trips to France. We know that these trips play to many of Linda's strengths: Her love of art, her exuberance for all things ...