The house-hunting show we need right now, the rise of round furniture, and more Two weeks into working from, and mostly remaining inside, my home, I?m already thinking about it differently, as I spend whole days in a space I?d previously only used for a few waking hours at a time.
Here are six Curbed longreads for this moment, focused on home interiors, and why certain kinds of fixtures and furnishings call to us in moments of anxiety.
The seventh story, a feature from earlier this year about urban sound, is for anyone who, like me, is adjusting to the sudden quiet outside their city windows. If you?re seeing where you live in a new way right now, perhaps these stories will offer some insight.

The Rise of Round
by Diana Budds ?Perhaps they simply allow us to regress to a childlike state and remember life before we thought about politics and the trials of adulthood,? he says. ?I think there?s something to be said for that?the feeling of sublime naivete. I really try to not overanalyze or intellectualize it.?

Illustration by Sunny Eckerle

The pure joy of HGTV?s ?My Lottery Dream Home?
by Angela Serratore
All the participants make it clear that their dreams are coming true and that they couldn?t be happier, and it?s the idea of home ownership itself as a dream that relaxes a certain tightness in my chest. On other homebuying shows, the idea that someone will find the house for them and that they?ve already established the ability...