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Organize Your Kitchen

In a room that's used for preparing food, serving snacks and everyday meals, maintaining organization is essential. Knowing exactly where kitchen accessories are located makes cooking — and dining — stress free and fun. Use these tips to help you organize your kitchen.
Choose a Wall Color for Your Kitchen

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Arrange Accessories in the Kitchen

The kitchen is where meals are prepared, and recipes are perfected, so it is important to infuse the room with functional and inviting accents. Follow these tips to beautifully arrange accessories in your kitchen.
Decorate a Small Kitchen

In a kitchen where square footage is at a premium, all it takes is a little imagination and ingenuity to design an area that's functional, inviting and beautiful. Follow these tips to decorate your small kitchen space.
Choose Furniture for a Kitchen

The kitchen is where family starts the day together, where friends sit down for a quick cup of tea and end up staying for hours. When it comes to choosing furniture for the kitchen, you will want to select pieces that will accommodate everything.
Choose the Perfect Lighting for a Kitchen

In the kitchen, utilize a variety of options to light your room and bring focus to specific areas. When choosing lighting for your kitchen, the key is to find a balance of functional and decorative pieces. Consider these tips for lighting your kitchen.
Choose Storage Solutions for a Kitchen

In addition to storing food, cooking tools and dining essentials, the kitchen is also usually the place we keep our mail, keys, papers and other family must-haves. In such a busy and frequently used space, it is important to find the right storage solutions to keep everything you need perfectly tucked away but still within reach.
Create a Frame Gallery in an Entryway

Create a personal gallery by displaying frames of varying shape and size. Plan the layout of your frames before hanging, either with kraft paper on the wall or by arranging them on a workspace or floor. Ensure your frame arrangement is horizontally centered on your wall space to create balance.
Choose a Wall Color for an Entryway

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Arrange Accessories in an Entryway

The entryway is the first impression friends and family will have of your home. The room should be filled with accessories you love — photographs, found objects and treasured books.
Decorate a Small Entryway

No matter how small, an entryway should be organized, intuitive and stylish.
Choose Furniture for an Entryway

The entryway creates a first impression and sets the tone for the rest of the house. It can be a stylish greeting, a formal welcome, or a casual room to display favorite objects.
Choose the Perfect Lighting for an Entryway

One of the most necessary, elements of a welcoming entry is the right amount of light. Good lighting enables activity, enhances color and — most importantly — gives an entryway a sense of warmth and life.
Choose Storage Solutions for an Entryway

A beautiful entrance to your home is about reconciling its two different uses: one as a well–trafficked area for daily comings and goings, the other as a decorative statement. The key is to create a system that makes storage easy and automatic.
Choose Bathroom Furniture

Like any other area of the house, a bath welcomes fine furnishings. A furnished bathroom is a place where you can close the door on the world for a while and relax.
Decorate a Small Bedroom

A cohesive space is always an inviting retreat. Employ the basics of space planning to make the most of what you have.
Choose Extra Seating

Comfortable chairs and chaise lounges are wonderful additions to a bathroom. They customize your space and add character.
Accessorize with Unique Items Living Rooms

Accessorizing with finds from flea markets and estate sales is a fun, inexpensive way to add nostalgia and history to your home.
Decorate with the Seasons

Be strategic about how you incorporate texture into your space. In spring and summer, use flat, crisp materials like cotton, voile and linen to keep a room feeling cool and comfortable.
Arrange Accessories

Accessories are expressions of your spirit. They are touchstones for memory, the items that make a room come alive. They can also be both decorative and practical, introducing accents of color into a room, enriching it with pattern and texture, or infusing a familiar setting with renewed energy and style.
Furnish a Small Bathroom

Many of us have to work with limited space in the bathroom, so creativity is needed most here. Small bathrooms, like any small space in the home, don't have to be less accommodating; on the contrary, they can be embellished with lavish materials or luxurious accessories.
Choose Office Furniture

A comfortable reading chair, the perfect desk lamp, a wall of favorite photos. Working at home has an appeal that's hard to match. Whether it's in a traditional home office, an artist's studio, or a kitchen corner, the perfect workspace is one that works just the way you do.
Create Work Zones

A simple home office that offers several work zones accommodates a flexible routine and welcomes many tasks. Break the home office into zones by determining what activities you want to do in the space at hand. Consider a comfortable seating area for welcoming clients, reading or relaxing.
Add Media Throughout Your Home

Create a comfy spot for everyone with weather-resistant furniture and comfy cushions covered in fade-proof fabrics. Keep cozy blankets nearby for showings after sunset.
Choose Dining Room Furniture

The dining room once involved complex rules of etiquette. But with today's casual lifestyle, meals are a moveable feast guided by simplicity and ease. The dining area is just as often in the kitchen or great room as it is in a formal dining room. In all these spaces, you want furniture that can be fine-tuned to accommodate afternoon snacks and family dinners, or seat a crowd.
Accessorize with Unique Items Dining Room

Accessorizing with finds from flea markets and estate sales is a fun, inexpensive way to add nostalgia and history to your home. Pottery Barn's creative team scours flea markets all over the world looking for interesting pieces to combine with our merchandise in photography.
Create a Frame Gallery in the Dining Rooms

When it's also a place for valued collections, a dining room can be far more than a place to enjoy food. Favorite objects extend a sense of welcome as soon as you walk into the room.
Decorate a Small Living Room

Overcoming a small space is a common challenge in decorating. With smart design, even a modest room can reveal greatness. The secret to success lies in thoughtful organization of space and a simple color palette brought to life with creative flair.
Choose Living Room Furniture

Furnishing with comfort and style is simple: use furniture that has good lines and bold shapes; add unique pieces and heirlooms for wit and soul.
Choose Storage Solutions

A media cabinet or armoire provides hidden storage for the television, stereo, DVD player, game console and more, plus at-hand organization for movies, games and music. But today's sleek, display-worthy televisions and ultra-compact components make it possible to use other furnishings as media centers, letting you tailor your storage to suit your decor or space considerations. Here are a few creative options.
Set Up a Dining Space

Setting the table for a meal outside is always rich with creative possibilities. When fresh air combines with the gentle sway of trees overhead, the feeling of grass underfoot, or the sound of waves crashing on the beach, the surroundings demand a table that's equally inspiring.
Make the Most of Your Media Room

Your ideal media room might be a movie theater, concert hall and video arcade in one – instead of the combination family room, library, lounge and work space it truly is. But adding great sound, seating and lighting actually expands the media room into something greater: a multimedia room for everyone.
Decorate a Small Dining Room

The things we use every day are the most important: dinnerware, linens, collections of glassware and silver. Display makes art of the objects that please us most.
Create an Outdoor Bar

Survey your space and decide where the best location would be for your bar. Make sure there's plenty of room for seating and mingling. Choose a bar console that's big on storage below with plenty of prepping space above. If you wish, add an outdoor fridge or wine chiller nearby. You should also provide plenty of stools, chairs and lounges, but make sure to leave room for standing guests. A coordinating ottoman doubles as a casual coffee table for trays of drinks.
Accessorize with Candles

To tap into the restorative potential of your bath, think of an especially memorable visit to a spa, or even a well-appointed hotel, and try to re-create the aspects of that environment that you found so relaxing. Bring in aromatherapy, candles, piles of fluffy towels, or a tubside tray to hold a cup of tea. The details that linger are most often simple and sublime.
Organize Your Entryway

A family entryway often leads a double life: it's part loading zone, part living room. It's where you and your family land after a busy day, drop your gear and head for comfort. It's also where you greet guests, and the place from which you launch yourself back into the world the next day.
Decorate the Small Home Office

Limited square footage invites a few savvy design tricks: find small-scale furnishings that can be folded shut; mount lights under a shelf to save desktop space; employ a light-colored palette to increase the perceived space; above all, keep it simple.
Choose a Wall Color in the Living Room

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose a Wall Color in the Media Room

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose a Wall Color in the Bathroom

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose a Wall Color in the Dining Room

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose a Wall Color in the Home Office

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose a Wall Color in the Bedroom

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose a Wall Color in the Entryway

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose Outdoor Paint Color

We've made it easy to choose the paint color you love by partnering with the experts at Benjamin Moore to bring you a perfect palette of colors, designed specifically to complement Pottery Barn furnishings.
Choose the Perfect Lighting

Good lighting enables activity, enhances color, and – most importantly – gives a room a sense of warmth and life. Light fixtures also bring fun and fashion to a space.
Measure for Furniture

Before choosing furniture, consider the windows, closets, heating vents and electrical outlets in the room. Does a door open into the space? What about lighting – will you use table lamps, or would floor lamps work better
Measure for a Dining Table

When choosing a dining table, it's important to first measure your dining area. Think about the dining table's shape and size.
Measure for Media Furniture

When choosing a media center, it's important to consider the size of your media components and entertainment-related items. We help ensure that all of your media components will fit in your stylish new media center.
Measure for Loose-Fit Slipcovers

Our loose-fit slipcovers are designed to fit a variety of furniture sizes. To find the correct fit, measure the width of your furniture in inches from outside arm to outside arm. Consult the chart below to find which size to order. Our slipcovers work best on fully upholstered pieces and are not recommended for futons or sectionals.
Accessorize with Found Objects in the Bedroom

The strategic placement of a grouping of found bottles lets you play with light, scale and color.
Add Personality with Bedding

A farmhouse-style quilt, a luxuriously fluffy comforter or a neatly tucked in coverlet sets the room's tone.
The Perfect Floral Centerpiece

Base your selections on shapes, colors and textures that play off one another. The generous blooms of summer roses complement the slim, structural profile of freesia, for example.
Create a Custom Calendar

The everyday life of a busy family demands a family calendar – big, bold and impossible to overlook. Put it where everyone in your home is sure to see it, and make it a showstopper.
Stylish Accessory Ideas

Choose unexpected solutions for storing and displaying grooming essentials: a bud vase to hold colorful toothbrushes, a vintage candy dish for soaps, or old storage jars for sundries.
Enjoy Media Outdoors

Bring the comfort of your living room outdoors with light, easily transportable furniture, plush cushions covered in fade-proof fabrics and soft, moisture-resistant pillows. And keep cozy blankets nearby for showings after sunset.
Choose Flooring

Unfurl an all-weather mat just about anywhere to create an instant outdoor "room". It looks like natural sisal, but is woven of durable, water-repellent polypropylene – perfect for high-traffic areas.
Create a Frame Gallery

Create a personal gallery by displaying frames of varying shape and size. Plan the layout of your frames before hanging, either with kraft paper on the wall or by arranging them on a workspace or floor. Ensure your frame arrangement is horizontally centered on your wall space to create balance.
Hang Drapes

The right window treatment can enhance a window's size, shape and the way it filters light. Learn how to measure, hang and accessorize drapes in 3 simple steps.
Choose a Rug Pattern

Patterned rugs work well with simpler furnishings; solid-colored rugs complement more elaborate furnishings.
Creative Wall Displays

Line a wall with favorite images in a single theme, like seascapes, botanicals or family, for quiet appeal that highlights pattern, line and shape.