11 Home Scents That Will Transform Your Space
More than any other sense, scent has the ability to instantly trigger memories, but it’s also great at transporting us to places we’ve never been—except in our imagination. When it comes to the home, it seems to be the most overlooked way to not just set a tone, but transport your guests somewhere entirely new, yet familiar.
Inspired by homes we’ve covered here at Dwell, the following candles, diffusers, and incense can help create the illusion you’re in a creaky old castle in the French countryside when you’re really in a cramped one-bedroom.
Here’s what to buy if you’re looking to conjure the vibe of a…
Riffing on local farmhouses, architects Patrick Walker and Elizabeth Demetriades covered the 4,000-square-foot house in rough-sawn red cedar and capped it with a standing-seam galvalume roof.
Sunlight floods the interiors through the greenhouse volume.
Set across 990 acres of landscaped grounds and vineyards in Burgundy’s Beaujolais region, the 17th-century Château de La Chaize boasts elegant proportions based on the Golden Ratio.
A one-foot-thick concrete retaining wall partially wraps the pool and garden area, which is set atop the lower level’s strong and flat roof.
Lights, sound, and projections transform the loft at night. Even the light switches are by Buster + Punch, a nod to Desna’s DJ equipment.
The staircase alone!
Cozy!
Resting along the crest of a volcanic crater on the little-known island of Nisyros in the Aegean Sea, Villa Nemésis marries the mystique of ancient Greece with modern design.
A good rug.
Geoff and Joanna Mouming’s compact modern farmhouse is the first permanent structure at Yum Yum Farm in Wellman, Iowa. On the field that stretches out before
it, organic vegetables will soon make attentive farmers of the Moumings. The benches on their entry porch were built by Geoff using a design plan by Aldo Leopold, the pioneering Iowa-born conservationist and writer whose spirit and thoughts seem to preside over the house.
The home's inset doors and windows create shelter from inclement weather, and provide secluded covered areas for gathering. "The lighter wood used in the insets is recycled from a shed that used to belong to my grandfather,
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