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By Rachel Davies

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There are few mental images that conjure up as much peace of mind as those of a minimalist home . Refined yet livable and completely devoid of unwanted clutter , minimalist living spaces are often refuges from the demands of everyday life. Their hallmark attributes—pared down color palettes, clean lines, and a frequent reliance on natural materials—are often employed to deft effect by interior designers who are committed to this seemingly simple aesthetic. Below, from a New York City condo to a modern home in Morocco, we share nine of the best minimalist homes to be featured by AD.

A sake-inspired beach house in Fire Island

Working for fashion industry clients Derek Lam and Jan-Hendrik Schlottman in the Pines enclave of New York’s Fire Island, Neal Beckstedt sensitively redesigned a midcentury beach house by modernist master Horace Gifford. “Something about it really felt like it wasn’t the typical beach house,” Lam recalls of his first impression of the property before he bought it. “It was designed with something in mind, with beautiful intention.”

Looking around fashion designer Derek Lam’s waterfront home, one doesn’t immediately think of sipping sake. But that was key to the inspiration he shared with architect and interior designer Neal Beckstedt when they began working on this project together. Of course, Derek Lam being Derek Lam—a womenswear star known for combining elegant simplicity and exquisite detailing—didn’t want just any sake. “In the beginning, I told Neal that my favorite drink was this sake at [the New York City restaurant] Omen that they serve in a cedar box. It’s perfectly simple, and it has this beautiful cedar smell when you drink it,” Lam recalls. “I said, ‘Neal, I just want to live inside that sake box.’”

Ask and ye shall receive.

Now, Lam lives in the cedar sake box of his dreams. Together with his husband, Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann—founder of Italian fashion brand Callas Milano —and their Irish terrier, Roscoe, he’s made the most of the serene home’s 2,000 square feet of minimalist and modernist space—all of it considerably more comfortable and cozy than it might have been thanks to Beckstedt’s carefully thought-out use of warm and natural materials and sculptural accents. — Andrew Sessa

A stunning farmhouse in upstate New York

The main living area features a custom dining table designed by Niels Schoenfelder. Above, a cozy TV nook overlooking the space leads to the primary bedroom.

Beverly Kerzner first met architect and designer Niels Schoenfelder over 20 years ago. At the time, he was 24 years old and had already built a stunning hotel in Pondicherry, India, that caught her eye. After tracking him down and initiating a fruitful conversation, she tapped him to build her dream home.

“Right from the start, Niels and I pushed each other. It was always a conversation, or a lengthy debate, getting to know the land,” Kerzner says. She spent years perfecting her vision with the young German architect.

Fast-forward to 2017 when she purchased a vast plot of scenic land in the Hudson Valley . The sprawling hill-scape contained two stunning barn structures, a river that runs through the property, a cabin, and a residential home. Just like in the far off regions near Pondicherry, this was a landscape that had to be appreciated, worked with, and understood. “I knew immediately Niels was the one for the job,” she recalls. The finished result is a grand yet subtle structure that allows its surrounding environment to take control. — Sophia Herring

A modernist homage in New Canaan, Connecticut

The structure—and its pool—viewed at low light

AD100 architect Deborah Berke remembers the first time she set foot on the land. “It was inspirational,” she recounts of the site: a verdant eight-acre swath of New Canaan, Connecticut, with thick woods, a gentle grade, and a picturesque pond. “I am a New Englander by heritage, and that quintessential landscape of big trees and water really speaks to me.” At the time, the current dean of the Yale School of Architecture had been approached by the property’s owners to build an auxiliary pavilion to their main house—someplace for guests to sleep or for themselves to use as a retreat. “The impulse was a light touch so that nature felt most present.”

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Through careful siting, ingenuity of fenestration, and other tricks of transition, Berke crafted a nuanced sequence that delays gratification, introducing the scenic surrounds in one spectacular sweep. When guests arrive they are greeted by a seemingly monolithic expanse of gray brick, its staggered façade concealing the entrance. The gravel motor court, however, gives way to a dashed line of rectilinear pavers that unfold beneath a simple black metal trellis, beckoning visitors. (“That trellis says come here, ” Berke jokes.) Step through the door, turn the corner, and you are greeted by a panorama of window walls that frame the sylvan vista. “Before you enter, you don’t quite know what’s going to be revealed,” she notes. “Only inside do you feel where you are.” 

The overall identity speaks to what Berke calls “the trajectory of classic modernism in New England.” It was in this corner of Connecticut, after all, that midcentury trailblazers such as Eliot Noyes , Marcel Breuer , and Philip Johnson reinvented the image of American domesticity, one glass-wall abode at a time. With its taught volume, limited materials palette, and engagement with the landscape, Berke’s pavilion builds on that tradition. — Sam Cochran

A low-tech home just outside Lake Tahoe

“We intentionally didn’t do lighting hanging over the island or over the kitchen table. We kept it very simple,” Nicole Hollis explains. The Trollopes’ kitchen includes oak stools in a jet black finish by E15 and countertops and black splash in Cambrian black granite with a brushed finish by Da Vinci Marble . The ceiling wood planks are raw sugar pine by Jim Morrison Construction .

As the CEO of Five9 , a publicly traded cloud software company, Rowan Trollope knows a thing or two about technology. Considering his role creating cutting edge technologies, one might believe that his new Lake Tahoe home would look like something out of The Jetsons. But if cartoon analogies are to be made, the 50-year-old entrepreneur’s home—which features slabs of stone floors and wood ceilings—would fit more seamlessly into an episode of The Flintstones. “In general, we really stayed away from technology in the house,” Trollope admits. Instead, he and his wife Stephanie, along with their two young children (their third is out of the house), sought to create a space that blurred the line between indoor and outdoor living. “We wanted our home to not be on the land, but of it,” Trollope continues, “which is why it’s partially built into a slope in the ground.”

Located in Truckee, California (roughly ten miles from Lake Tahoe), the one-acre property was purchased by the Trollopes in 2018. By March of 2020, construction was complete, allowing the family to temporarily move out of their primary San Francisco residence and into the house just as the pandemic hit. “The new home became our sanctuary during the pandemic,” Trollope says. “It has that feel of being quite isolated, which I like because my daily life is typically filled with people, meetings, noise. But this house was designed to be the opposite of that in every way.” In order to fit their utopian vision, Trollope tapped the California-based firm Faulkner Architects . “There is minimal difference in material deployment inside and out [of the home],” explains the firm’s founder Greg Faulkner. “I wanted to evoke feelings of a backcountry trip, the spirit of escape and discovery that rises upon arrival of somewhere uniquely special. These feelings are crucial in connecting with a space.”

If connecting with the space was important, then that meant that finding the right interior designer was paramount. That’s why Trollope brought in the San Francisco–based designer Nicole Hollis . “For anyone who steps foot in the home, they would immediately sense that a lot of inspiration came from Donald Judd,” Hollis says, referring to the sleek minimalism prevalent throughout the space. But it was evident the team—and the homeowners—pushed for more than just a Judd-like ambiance. — Nick Mafi

Isolated digs in Marfa, Texas

The positioning of the fireplace in the corner was a minimalist nod to Kiva fireplaces, commonly found in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the couple has their primary residence.

“It was the only made structure as far as the eye could see, so it became the pivot point by which we designed everything else,” Bob Harris, partner at Lake Flato architects, says of an old water cistern on the approximately 700-acre ranch his clients purchased just outside of Marfa , Texas . “It is this symbol of people that survived in the past and made their livelihoods there in a harsh environment. You want to build upon that, which is what we decided to do.”

But initially, this idea was sold to clients who did not end up building the house that the Texan firm designed for them. The clients in question decided that the location was a bit removed from the proverbial action of the art-world mecca, which houses just under 2,000 full-time residents. Ultimately, they decided to sell their land to Ashlyn and Dan Perry, a couple who met when both were living in San Antonio but are now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In an unusual turn of events, the Perrys, philanthropists with a long history of charitable work in the arts, decided to green-light the rammed-earth structures that Lake Flato had designed for the previous land owners, rather than do what many others would have: Start from scratch and potentially with different architects. 

In total, eight structures were constructed using this method, and each is its own room for the most part. They include a mechanical room, an office, a gym, a guest suite, a guest wing, an art studio, a combination kitchen, a living and dining area, and the primary bedroom suite. The structures are set around a courtyard, connected by a covered porch above and breezeways below, which are also used to access each room, as they’re not interconnected. With its low profile and use of natural materials from the earth, the completed home stays true to the architect’s intention to “create a home that has been inserted into the untouched desert landscape without disturbance… It almost feels like a natural part of the desert itself.” — Rima Suqi

A midcentury gem in LA

The exterior of the home seen from street level shows the cantilevered roofs, and it also exemplifies Lautner’s vision to design the very anthesis of a boxed home. 

Before Joachim Rønning’s film Kon-Tiki was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, before he directed the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean , even before he married the activist Amanda Hearst, the Norwegian-born director had set his sights on a very different career path. “I was in my late teens when I first came across John Lautner’s work in a coffee table book and it completely fascinated me,” Rønning says. “In fact I was so taken by his designs that before I was bitten by the movie bug, I was thinking of becoming an architect.” It would take a few more decades before Rønning and his wife would come across Lautner’s work again, but this time, it would be to buy a home the influential architect had designed. 

In 1961, John Lautner designed the West Hollywood home for interior designer and concert pianist Marco Wolff. For Lautner, who had apprenticed under Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s, the home was an opportunity to flex his creative muscles. What began as an arduous, almost vertical plot of land, resulted in perhaps the acme of midcentury-modern residential architecture on the West Coast. With this home, Lautner leaned into the primal state of nature, demanding that his audience turn their preconceived notion of domesticity on its head. It was a bold statement of how humans once lived—among the trees, the rocks, perched atop a hill—and the architect stamped his thumbprint on it. When Rønning and Hearst Rønning purchased the property, they tapped architect and interior designer Clive Wilkinson to help bring their new home back to its former glory. — Nick Mafi

Indoor-outdoor living in Casablanca, Morocco

The custom stained-oakwood staircase with plaster and steel details was inspired by Carlos Scarpa. “The olive tree in the entrance connects nature inside and out. Even the sand at the base was brought from the Moroccan desert,” Arghirescu Rogard says.

It’s not every day that a message on Facebook leads to an incredible redesign of a home, but that was indeed the case for architect and interior designer Crina Arghirescu Rogard. “The owners of this Casablanca villa gave me carte blanche to do a total gut renovation, inside and outside,” she says. And though the bones of the house were very modernist, the clients loved Arghirescu Rogard’s work so much that they were open to everything she proposed.

“I’m a contextual architect, so I like to keep in mind the environment where the project is found,” Arghirescu Rogard says. “[But] the clients wanted an unconventional space in respect to Moroccan culture—they wanted to take some of the formal elements out of the traditional settings.” In order to achieve this, Arghirescu Rogard was able to reconfigure the layout of both floors of the home and redesign the enclosed areas to generate a seamless flow. “The goal was to open the house to the exterior by taking down walls and positioning tall windows in places that could offer different layers of transparencies. And create unexpected perspectives and vistas to cut through the house without revealing it in its entirety,” she adds. “For example, the olive tree behind the glass façade becomes a backdrop for the sculptural staircase—the beating heart of the house—that itself protects the living room’s privacy while allowing a warming flow of light and air.” — Zoë Sessums

An unexpectedly earthy New York City condo

Zuchowicki’s intent was to bring a sense of grounded-ness to this corner of the bedroom, where his client can unwind in peace and quiet. He sourced a vintage Pierre Jeanneret chair from 1stDibs and decorated the desk with a vintage Alain Richaird table lamp from Demisch Dananat and a mobile by Max Simon.

When the interior designer Sebastian Zuchowicki began working with his client on his New York City residence, the starting point was the living room. “I feel like the living room concepts are always the soul of the space, especially in a New York City apartment, and then it trickles down,” he says.

Compared to his client’s conventional summer house in Rhode Island, the three-bedroom apartment in West Chelsea that he currently shares with his two children (and their cat) is a modern sanctuary with a finely tuned aesthetic. Zuchowicki spent a whole year slowly transforming the 3,000-square-foot condominium one room at a time, until the bedrooms, dining room, and newly fashioned private library had been completely perfected.

“My favorite detail is that there’s texture everywhere you look,” Zuchowicki says. “Literally everywhere you look, there’s texture. You won’t see a white wall anywhere, and that to me makes it feel special. It doesn’t feel heavy, and that was really important. I wanted it to feel light but super textured.” — Sydney Gore

A Boston town house with space to lounge

“My husband loves the top floor with the pool table,” Nelson-Rice says. This house is the couple’s first designed without kids in mind, and, Hacin says, “She wasn’t worried about being a mom or wife, she wanted to do Robin. She put all these tiny touches throughout that were a function of her personality.” The matriarch’s metric for buying art is: “Is it loving me, am I loving it back?” The trio of flags made of album spines by Walter Lobyn Hamilton is a personal favorite, as it embodies the power of music. Also in the daylit game room are a playful Vibia chandelier and Moses Nadel ottomans.

A client who literally refuses to take no for an answer may sound less than ideal, but for the team at Boston’s Hacin + Associates , one such energetic and creative collaborator’s approach led to aesthetic magic and joy. “Truly, I would describe her—we all would—as a dream client,” lead interior designer Matthew Woodward says. “I’ve never had more fun on a project in my life.”

When Robin Nelson-Rice and her husband, Derica Rice, decided to move from suburban Indiana to Boston, their real estate broker and general contractor both felt H+A was the perfect match to reimagine a six-story 1881 Back Bay town house. However, founding principal and creative director David Hacin found himself quite busy at the time. “Robin looked at me right in the eye and said, ‘You don’t understand. You are going to be doing this project.’ And I actually loved that,” Hacin says. “As we were talking, we clicked, we connected, and that was it for her. She wanted to keep going with that process.”

“We made decisions wholeheartedly based on viewing the space as a gallery for contemporary Black artists,” Woodward says. “Robin was really thrilled to do that. Early on, we were conscious of showing restraint in the materials palette, so we could really let the art stand out.” The dining room in particular was designed around a Russell Young portrait of Barack Obama, a piece Nelson-Rice says, “speaks volumes—it’s peaceful, it’s hopeful, it’s positive.” — Kathryn Romeyn

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Curated, Comforting Cozy Minimal Home Tour

by Angie Kikstra

In this series, we will pull back the curtain on lovely homes within our community and give you all a Cozy Minimal Home Tour. 

I want to showcase all the different types of homes within our community. Because I don’t feel only one home and decorating style is the poster child for the Cozy Minimalism movement.

I would love to inspire those of you that don’t have (or want) a social media influencer home . 

Our community has a wide range of homey homes that feel good for the people that live there. Homes that tell a story. 

I believe it’s important to show people homes that are curated, real-life homes. I feel like having a normal home should be normal. 

These are those Cozy Minimal Home Stories  

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Imagine this, taking a quiet moment every morning with your coffee before the rest of your young family wakes up. 

Calming and preparing yourself in silence before the day begins. 

Gazing around your home,  and instead of seeing an overwhelming mess or a bunch of to-do’s, you are simply reminded of moments, places and people you love. Your home fills you up instead of draining you.

You can exist in the quiet solitude of that morning coffee, loving your home, soaking in the fact that it perfectly reflects who you are as a family. 

Your home beautifully tells your story  – without the excess clutter. 

In this article, you will meet Rose, a mom, wife, sister, daughter and friend that has curated a clutter-free home that is still warm and cozy. 

Rose loves her alone time in the morning now, and it’s one of her favorite daily moments. 

Where she can sit peacefully with her coffee and where she can get herself ready for everyone else before they wake up for the day. 

This starkly contrasts how it was before she started her journey. 

She would see a mess, which would feel overwhelming, but she felt she needed to find a system for her home and stuff.  

Rose starts off our conversation by describing herself as a mother, but she also adds, “I’m a wife, sister, daughter, aunt and friend.” Rose has always felt like a “mother hen,” taking on a nurturing role with her siblings growing up (especially her brothers). Throughout our conversation, I kept hearing her repeat how a family was the most important. 

Rose also loves frequenting thrift stores… and sources thrift store items before she looks at a retail store. 

There is something beautiful about pieces she saved from the trash bin and renewed or the treasures she has found on her trips thrifting or uncovering at estate sales. 

Her style is so beautifully curated that she will inspire you to create your own curated home.

Rose not only has a young family that she cares for, but she also runs an in-home family child care that brings three additional little ones during the work week.  .

A functional home that is easy to keep tidy is necessary for this busy wife and mom. 

"Home felt heavy when it was cluttered." Rose Catlett Tweet

Clutter in the home caused Rose to feel stressed. 

But trying to clean up and tidy day in and day out was draining.

It felt overwhelming. 

It felt heavy.

When she first started, she had a storage unit with excess stuff for her and her husband – when the first baby was on the way, she started to question the extra storage for just the two of them and began her journey to living with “just enough.” 

Kids come with stuff… and when she started having babies, it became essential to make a calm space and create organization solutions for all of the items that came with the first baby. 

She quickly learned that she didn’t need too much stuff for them. 

They just wanted her and time spent connecting over the mundane or creating memories together like trips to the park or the library – no new toy will ever replace that time spent.

“I felt like I didn’t have time to deal with the stuff. I don’t want to feel overwhelmed anymore by stuff.”  Rose Catlett Tweet

Before she started on her journey, she found that clutter  was overwhelming there was zero joy in tidying up like there is now because there wasn’t a system. She had no time and energy to clean up the stuff but thrived with tidiness. “I felt like I didn’t have time to deal with the stuff. I don’t want ever to feel overwhelmed anymore by stuff” she tells me with conviction. 

Things aren’t being shifted around from the counters to the table,  they are being put away.

More importantly, she’s constantly reassessing if the items actually belong in their home and life anymore. 

“It’s an ongoing process,” she says “It’s not something that you do once. It’s an evolution as your family grows and changes over time.”

“Motherhood is a lot. I didn’t want to be consumed by my house. I wanted the freedom to have  more time and do the things that mattered.” Rose Catlett Tweet

Rose feels a lovely sense of balance with “comfort and clutter-free” in her home.

She doesn’t feel like she is super minimalistic, and she also doesn’t feel like she is a hoarder.

For Rose, pursuing a cozy minimal home isn’t about aesthetics or trying to be perfect. It’s about a home that supports her and her well-being.

She gets overwhelmed when her place is cluttered; it drains her and can affect her emotional and psychological well-being.

“A cluttered and disorganized home has caused stress and emotionally drained me. Having a cozy minimal home has freed up time, peace, and happiness.” 

Creating a cozy minimal home has also made her less anxious overall. She also said toodle-loo to feeling constantly overwhelmed with mess and managing stuff. 

Messes still do happen, and that is ok. It’s easier for her to do something about messes that inevitably pop up. 

She loves looking at a mess and thinking, “I can clean that up by the time this song is done!”. 

“My husband will sometimes come upstairs after he is done with work, and he’ll see me frazzled and ask if I’m ok, and I’ll say, “Things are a little chaotic, things are a little messy, I just need to catch up.” 

That catch-up doesn’t feel overwhelming. 

“Motherhood is a lot. I didn’t want to be consumed by my house. I wanted the freedom to have a little more time and do what mattered.” 

It’s given her boys a nice clean, and safe space to be in, and she takes pride in that.

“We are the gatekeepers to what comes into our home.” she says, “I’ve learned to be ok with saying no to items.”

And if she is out shopping and finds something that she is considering for their home, she says,  “I am already making a mental space in my house of where an item will go before I bring it in.” 

Cultivating Contentment Even When Home Isn’t “Perfect”

Rose lives in a 2100 sq foot bi-level (roughly 1050 square feet on each floor). 

Admittedly, this home style wasn’t her ideal choice when they were looking for a new home, but she has learned to love her home as it is now. She is at a point in her life where she wants to be content and grateful for what she has now, and she feels very blessed to have a home that they purchased. 

One of her struggles at first was not feeling like her home was Instagram-worthy in her own mind, she would see beautiful homes created using brand-new store-bought items. It seemed like it was the opposite of her curated and unique style, using items that she sourced over time. 

I think this is something many of us struggle with because we see so many of these perfectly styled show homes on social media. When we put our phone down and look around, we often feel like our home doesn’t live up to that standard.

She has since learned to find contentment and gratitude in what she owns and beauty in the home as it is now… not as she envisions it when it’s “perfect.”  

Rose initially shared her home in our Cozy Minimalist Community Group on Facebook, which she was initially nervous about because she didn’t 100% think that her home was “share-worthy” as she put it.

She worried “that maybe it wasn’t truly a cozy minimalist home.” 

Her decor and furniture have been curated through thrifting or gifting over time. 

The comments were so much fun to watch roll in:

“Why does this look so clean and lovely yet inviting and warm?”

“This looks so homey and welcoming.”

“Wow! That is beautifully designed! Inspiring for sure!”

One of my hopes for you, reading this, is that our movement Cozy Minimalism will help you see how perfect your homes can be with your unique style and step outside of the trends. The same trends that their sole purpose is to keep you feeling like your home is inadequate, so you feel compelled to buy new things (that don’t make you happy, but they line the pockets of the people pushing the trends).

Rose describes her cozy minimal home as clean, simple, warm and inviting. She doesn’t want what she owns to get lost in the clutter. If it’s on display, it means it is special, and she only wants to highlight those items in her home.

Maintaining a Cozy Minimalist Home With Kids

Rose has a lot of systems in place to help her maintain their family home easily; most of them revolve around allowing her family to take responsibility for their own things in the main living areas.

She has a basket on the counter where she can put items left out on surfaces, and her husband can then put them away when he has time. This has been extra helpful since newspapers have been found on the counter. She doesn’t know if they have been read, so she places them in the basket, and her husband can read them or toss them. She simply reminds him to go through the basket every once and a while.

“We all live here, and I can’t do it all. I’m doing them a disservice if I do it all.”  Rose Catlett Tweet

As a mom of three boys, she values teaching them how to keep house and contribute. “We all live here, and I can’t do it all. I’m doing them a disservice if I do it all.” 

Rose knows that as her kids grow, things will change – and that’s ok. Nothing has to stay the same; their family home will grow and change with them. Especially now as the older two are beginning to come home with their stuff from school and sports, and they have begun collecting their own items.

She’s trying to teach them how to manage their stuff rather than managing it for them. In a sense, she is focusing on more empowerment. 

She wants to respect their choices for their items rather than tell them they need to let go of things. She never wants to have to toss their stuff out and wants to teach them how to manage their things. This is a valuable step for her and many moms, teaching kids to manage their own stuff and take responsibility for their environment.

She also has a wonderful group of church ladies she can post her donations, who will pick them up right from her home. Making the outflow of her clutter a simple task has helped maintain this lifestyle.

The Heart of Home

The journey has been a process, and she feels like she is still in the process – even 10 years into the journey. 

It was initially spurred by moving seven times within seven years… and when she moved, she wasn’t interested in moving all the stuff when it wasn’t needed or loved.

 “It takes time to get to where you want to be with creating a home.” 

Home isn’t something you can go out and buy at a store, it’s something that is curated over time. 

We Don’t Judge How Others Live With More Stuff 

One misconception with Cozy Minimalism she would love to change is that just because we are minimalists and just because we don’t have a lot of clutter doesn’t mean that we walk into other people’s homes and judge them. 

She has fully embraced my concept “To Each Their Home” and understands that everyone lives their own way in their own home… no judgment from the outside.

Dealing With Guilt and Sentimental Items

Rose has an essential rule for her sentimental stuff: If it is valuable enough to keep, she will display it in her home. 

“Either I deal with this stuff or someone else will… and I want to make that decision. I want to make that choice.”

Initially, she felt guilt for getting rid of things in her home that had been there for a long time. 

Rose recounts one specific grouping that was especially hard for her, gifts from her grandma that had crocheted all these beautiful doll dresses every year for her birthday. 

18 handmade doll dresses. 

It was such a heartfelt gift that she loved when she was younger and was able to play with the dolls. 

However, as she grew up, she stopped playing with the dolls, and they sat in a box and never saw the light of day. 

She kept the most sentimental one and displayed it in her home. 

“And besides that,” she says, “other things connect me to my Grandma in my home.” 

There is a grouping of recipes that she has framed in her kitchen that reminds her of her great grandma  and grandma every time she glances at them when she walks by.

Cozy Minimal Home Tour - Kitchen and Dining Room

According to Rose, this is one of her least favorite rooms within her home, but she has still infused some emotional connection points to help her love it more.

Having a clutter-free space also helped her enjoy it more.

Adding the handwritten recipe cards from her great-grandmother and grandma on display helps her emotionally connect with the space and reminds her of meals she enjoyed with those special women in her life.

The dining room is connected to the kitchen, so I am including it here. 

The dining table was built by Rose’s father for her wedding, and she was able to spray paint the chairs black to help with design cohesion. 

The artwork on the wall represents where they started their journey together as a family and also where they currently live.

Cozy Minimal Home Tour - Bathroom

This was the first room that  Rose tackled for a renovation, and she didn’t think she would go that far with the renovation. 

You can do little things in your home to make a significant impact. 

It started with a change in a mirror, then the light, then the painted cabinet and then a willing husband that made her vision come to light with paint, the board and batten, and a new countertop.

I love how she pulled together the colors with a runner instead of those matchy-matchy fuzzy bathroom rugs (I’m not passing judgment because I  own those  too, lol)

By adding a functional decor grouping, she can make the tissue paper look pretty in a group with hand soap. 

Functional decor groupings help you keep the essentials and everyday use items out but help elevate them to make them pretty. 

I always say, “If it’s going to be out, it might as well be pretty!”

Adding the hamper beside the toilet also helps with adding texture to the room. 

Cozy Minimal Home Tour - Guest Bedroom

The guest bedroom was a fun space for Rose because this is their first owned home and the first place they had a dedicated space for guests to come and stay if needed.

Everything in this room has been purchased second-hand or gifted except the mattress and box spring. Everything has a reason for being in this room; it has to have meaning. 

The end table is a cigar cabinet from the early 1900s that she gifted her husband on their first wedding anniversary.  

The trunk at the end of the bed was from an auction her husband attended.  .

A cigar box on the ledge below the window was a gift her brother brought home while he spent time in Romania.  

The wall art was a gift from Rose’s husband because she loves birds. Even the blankets were thrifted.

Cozy Minimal Home Tour - Boy’s Bedroom

She has the boys sleeping upstairs in a simple bedroom and their own toys in a dedicated play space downstairs. 

Two Sock Monkeys sit on display.  One was handmade by her grandmother and the other was gifted by her mother after her first son was born. She read in a decorating magazine that a larger rug would make the room feel bigger, so she sourced this rug from another room in their home, and it worked perfectly for the boy’s room. This is the beauty of having a whole home color plan; you can use items in many rooms of your home.

Her goal with the bedroom was to be soothing and very simplified. The boys have a playroom in the basement to collect their treasures and toys – leaving the bedroom as a place for sleeping and winding down. 

The basket of books is helpful for an evening read before bed.

The two dressers were sourced from second-hand places, and she painted them to match the decor.

The artwork on the wall above both beds is also significant. With pictures of the boys above their beds and word art that helps remind them that family is everything. 

Two chess boards have been added to the walls.

Cozy Minimal Home Tour - Kids Play Areas

So often, those of us with minimalist homes feel judged because they seem to think that we force our children into this lifestyle or make them live with nothing. 

Rose has a special place for the boys downstairs that is their play area, and they have all of their collections and things they have started to accumulate. 

This isn’t about forcing her boys into this lifestyle but more so guiding them to be mindful of what they own and why they own it.

Rose will gently nudge the older boys to look at what they own items and encourage them to let go once the items start getting unmanageable or overwhelming. 

She is committed to teaching them how to manage their stuff mindfully rather than doing it for them.

The play space for her in-home family child care area is on the main floor of her bi-level, and she has beautifully styled this space with items she has purchased and curated over time.

Cozy Minimal Home Tour - Main Bedroom

Curating a sanctuary within  your home is crucial. Having a place to end your day in a calm and relaxing way is essential. And waking up in a room that isn’t full of “to-do’s” is also calming. Rose beautifully demonstrates that a pretty room doesn’t have to be with a matching bedroom set or brand-new items. 

The pieces in this room feel like they have been curated over lifetimes, and each of the items has a special meaning or story behind it. There is so much beauty in the imperfectness of a carefully curated home, every line, shape or scratch tells a story.

Rose says, “I’ve been known to go to Target too, but I don’t purchase all my items there. It doesn’t look like my home came out of a showroom.”

Taking it beyond the furniture basics, if you can create emotional connection points in your bedroom to remind you of your love for your spouse as Rose did, you will make your space feel like it’s your own. 

More importantly, you will be reminded of the special bond between each other as you glance at the decor.

Above the bed in her and her husband’s bedroom is a framed note he wrote to her on the day he proposed.  

It simply states, “Rose – Sweetheart, I love you so much. I love you forever.” 

That note should have made you audibly say “Awwwww!” 

What a beautiful reminder of that day, and their wedding day in the photo beside it, all serving to remind them of their love story. 

I hope this cozy minimal home tour has given you some inspiration for your real-life home. It may have sparked you to look at your curated space as beautiful.

Take note if you’ve ever felt too sentimental to be a minimalist. 

Being a minimalist doesn’t mean that you have to live out of a backpack. 

You can release the excess and find your own level of enough and choose to keep the most sentimental items in your home. Incorporate those beautiful sentimental items into your home decor. Give them a place of honour in your home and showcase those precious memories, don’t stuff them in a box.cozy 

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AIA Austin’s Annual Homes Tour Uncovers the City’s Best New Residences. Here’s Every Stop

Austin, Texas, is one of the best places to see emerging ideas in home design, whether  a 3D-printed ranch-style home  by local tech company Icon, or a clever solution to housing density that brings three living units under one roof.

That's why Dwell is excited to be a media partner helping to promote the  Annual AIA Austin Homes Tour . Now in its 37th year, the event takes place October 28 and 29, will highlight a mix of new builds and renovations across the city by top local talent, all of them offering a fresh perspective.

 "There are some serious firsts on this tour," says AIA Austin’s executive director, Ingrid Spencer, one of which includes a home built entirely of plant-based materials, and a 660-square-foot cantilevered studio that is one of the smallest structures in the tour’s history.

As with years past, the tour will showcase the city’s wide range of residential styles and scales, along with new, sustainable ideas. "By experiencing these private spaces, I hope people understand the work architects do to enhance lives and what they themselves could have if they hired an architect to design their own house," says Spencer. "Architecture is highly collaborative, and this tour puts that at the forefront."

Below, get a sneak peak at the nine homes included on this year’s tour.

Kinney Residence by Franke : Franke

Tucked into the leafy heart of Austin’s Zilker neighborhood, this 3,170-square-foot home by Franke : Franke overlooks a wide urban stream and striking ravine. A row of windows, positioned along the home’s central spine, brings in light and fresh air, while private bedrooms have access to water views, thereby immersing residents in the site’s natural surroundings.

Hood House by Murray Legge Architecture

Old meets new at this residence in West Lake Hills. Murray Legge Architecture took an existing midcentury home and integrated a two-story addition, both of which frame an intimate backyard with a newly constructed pool. Sustainable elements, including solar panels and a rainwater collection system, were central to the design.

Ledgeway Modern by McCollum Studio Architects

This 5,665-square-foot property by McCollum Studio Architects seamlessly blends contemporary living with natural beauty. Built on a serene hillside with unspoiled views, it utilizes an open-plan living space to maximize natural light and create a spacious, inviting atmosphere. Furthermore, the home collects rainfall and harnesses solar energy, underscoring the owner’s commitment to sustainability.

Falling Leaves House by Bercy Chen Studio

Bound by the four elements of nature—earth, wind, water, and fire—the Falling Leaves House by Bercy Chen Studio is a tree house–like sanctuary for one young family, along with the surrounding habitat of cedars, oaks, mule deer, and the endangered golden-cheeked Warbler. Inspired by the shapes and curled edges of falling oak leaves, the compound’s sheltering roofs and glass pavilions cascade into the landscape.

Foothill Terrace by Furman + Keil Architects

Originally featured on the tour in 2002, the Foothill Terrace residence marks another first for the 2023 event. "As far as I know we have never brought back a house from the past and featured it again," says Spencer. The home, which has been remodeled and expanded by Furman + Keil Architects, is a blend of historic and contemporary styles, woven together by architectural legacies, including the renowned Roland Roessner.

Descendant House by Matt Fajkus Architecture

This generational family compound, designed by Matt Fajkus Architecture, encompasses three distinct units for grandparents, parents, and children. Made of masonry, wood, glass, and stucco, the units converge in shared cooking and gathering areas, thereby showcasing the power of architecture to facilitate a harmonious blend of privacy and coexistence.

Shoalwood Residence by Sarah Bullock McIntyre Architect

Architect Sarah Bullock McIntyre worked with the homeowner—whom she first befriended in college—to reimagine this pier and beam cottage in Rosedale. The 2,238-square-foot property boasts a thoughtful, light-filled layout with minimalist "hygge" detailing, a low-sloped gable roof, and a perched front porch. Altogether, the residence serves as a testament to the benefits of homeowners and architects working in unison to realize a shared vision.

Cross Cabin by Moontower Design Build

This two-bedroom, two-bathroom home is the brainchild of homeowner Greg Esparza, in collaboration with Moontower. The 1,000-square-foot dwelling was built entirely from plant-based materials, including cross laminated timber panels and thermally modified cork, resulting in a space that looks, smells, and even sounds totally unique.

The Perch by Nicole Blair

One of the smallest homes on record for the AIA Austin Homes Tour, this 660-square-foot studio space was built from corrugated Cor-Ten steel with a cantilevered construction that was designed to fit above the existing roofline, while preserving the backyard.

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The 2023 Houston Modern Home Tour

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Explore The 2023 Tour Homes

Showcasing Amazing Examples of Houston's Architecture Today!

How It Works

01 click here to get your tickets, 02 watch for your tour map.

About 48 hours before Tour Day, watch your email for a printable PDF map and info packet, as well as links to a dynamic online map for easy navigation.

03 Preview The Homes Below!

04 visit the homes on tour day.

Travel at your own pace as you visit the homes in any order you wish between 10 AM and 4 PM on Saturday only.

2Scale Architects

Houses reflect the values of their occupants. Tall and grand says something; low and modest says something; haphazard and chaotic says something; simple and elegant says something. In a neighborhood evolving away from its early 20th century bungalow roots where front porches and gable-front homes were the norm, the Pierce Residence finds itself amongst giants— large townhomes and towering apartment blocks.   

While this is a 4-bedroom, almost 3500 s.f. home, far larger than the quintessential “bungalow” of its fore-bearers, the steep gable roof helps organize the home into more human-sized parts than the typical “build-line-to-build-line” homes nearby, so it feels more approachable, more familiar. It feels like a house. The front porch’s wide berth invites folks from the sidewalk to the entryway just like homes of yesteryear.   

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LEAM Design Build

Entering Outside was the inspiration for this home. 

Accent wooden walls and LED lighted white oak furniture generate a warm atmosphere while maintaining a minimalist design style. Preservation of the vegetation was given such a priority in the design and outdoor views that some trees are even passing through the roof. Hidden doors, mirrored built-in elevated beds, moving walls, and concealed staircases are other features that make this home unique. 

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Set on a spacious lot, in Hilshire Village this modern home was designed to meet the needs of a family of four. The rooms on the ground level are oriented with a view of the pool and landscape. The connected outdoor living area provides space for entertaining and relaxation while still maintaining ample lawn space where the family’s beloved dogs love to roam. The exterior features black wide-plank siding and tumbled midcentury brick in a Black/Gray mix. Bamboo siding and soffits accent the monochromatic exterior palette. Inside, the open floor plan combines with large windows to create a bright and airy atmosphere. The modern interior design focuses on clean lines with black accents and white oak cabinetry serving to anchor the space.

images: Luis Ayala

The Sugar Land residence sits at the edge of waterfront property and takes advantage of the quietness of the suburban surroundings. The one and a half-story house is defined by strong horizontal lines with massing of ledgestone, floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors and windows, and various custom steel details. The layout embraces an outdoor covered patio, terraced wood decks, and tree canopies while maximizing the lake view. The first floor consists of an open concept floor plan of living, dining and kitchen with a private wing for bedrooms. The second floor maintains a small footprint of secondary bedrooms.

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RefuGe Design Studio

As with many of the new homes in Bellaire, TX, this project is a product of change and modernization. This 4 br/4ba, stylized Modern Farmhouse, is a passive response to the post-World War II cottages, that dotted the incorporated town, within a growing city. However, this truly unique home is built on a crawl space that effectively allows the gables to soar, and the furnish-able front and rear porches to maintain the neighborly, urban fabric. Deeper porches allow for usable outdoor spaces, in the harsh Texas summers, while also conserving energy. 

Spatially, the first floor plan is designed as an open concept, avoiding any wasted square footage. Conceptually, the intent was to take advantage of the full, allowable, width of the lot. Additionally, abundant natural light increases the dimensional perception of space.

The 2 nd floor is also a study in avoiding wasted space, evident in the ample sizes of the private spaces (bedrooms & bathrooms). The hall creates a simple, unobstructed, linear spine with windows facing the Great Room. This design feature allows for privacy and noise reduction, while engaging additional, filtered natural light. The Master Suite includes a Lounge/ Coffee Bar, that also take advantage of windows facing the Great Room. Other than closets and secondary bathrooms, there are no dark spaces, in this home.

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Boxprefab / Intexure

Boxprefab produces precision-built, environmentally friendly, and smartly-designed prefabricated homes, ADU’s, and hospitality suites in half the time as site-built construction. For the FINAL STOP on this year’s tour, tourgoers get a unique opportunity to see the innovative factory.  

Boxprefab’s homes are inherently more sustainable, produced with less waste in a controlled environment with less impacts to the site and a smaller carbon footprint. During construction, the risks of mold and toxins are minimized while improving indoor air quality to the finished home. These structures are enhanced to withstand the rigors of transportation, built with tighter tolerances, and without exposure to weather under a rigorous quality assurance program with additional inspections and testing. Boxprefab’s projects are typically completed in half the time of site built construction by reducing weather delays, and by sequencing sitework concurrent to factory production in a streamlined and easy process.

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Hi there! I’m Rachel Jones, and I founded Nourishing Minimalism in 2012 at the beginning of my minimalist journey after I'd been doing a yearly decluttering challenge for 4 years and started to see a change in my home. If you're looking for encouragement in your journey, please join our FREE Facebook Group: Nourishing Minimalism Facebook Group

I really enjoyed reading your post and seeing how you pull it all off for a comfortable, well managed home. I think what is lacking in a lot of ‘declutter’ posts is that it focuses solely on the mechanics of what to clean, how to start and where to start. I think visualizing the end post is the secret to getting started, and keeping you steady along the way. I could understand the psychology behind what makes your family and family space important to you and your house seems to really reflect who you aRe as a family, not a home that is consumed by ‘things’. Thank you for sharing. I wish you and your family happyness and health in 2017 and beyond. 😊

Thank you for sharing your home with us, Cori. I love that you said, “it’s peaceful inside my head.” To me, that’s the goal of minimalism. peace, and knowing we are living our best life.

I love what you have done with some of those rescued items you mentioned. Lovely house, and not at all empty! The items on the walls really warm the place, and add interest. Nicely done! Thanks for all the other info on how you’ve simplified beyond your home. Food for thought, and possible future goals.

What a beautiful and inspiring home and Story! Thank you for sharing!

Adding an area rug to the living room and maybe a round one under the table or by the arm chair in that room would really make it look less “empty” by adding texture. I think the house is lovely and clean.

I love the free flowing spaciousness of your home. So easy to maintain clean and orderly. Although I personally love the coziness of area rugs, I would leave your wood floors as they are. Your home is lovely!

Beautiful! Looks very “decorated” to me…without excessive clutter. This is the look that I am working towards. <3

Awesome !!! I love it and your approach to minimalism!

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Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Key Details

• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
• If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
• Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

Local English-speaking guide

Pancake snack and drink

Additional food and drinks

Tickets for public transport

Souvenirs and items of a personal nature

Tips and gratuities for the guide

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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