How To 50 Design-Loving Pets

Every week homeowners around the world open their doors to our leading photographers, who profile their creative homes. While we love glancing in their insides and hearing about their design choices, their pets are as much of a visual treat. Meet some of our favourite pugs, ponies and other animal friends who have made a stylish look within our My series.

Esther Hershcovich

Clara the parrot is free to fly around this arty, furniture-hack-filled home in Israel.

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Ashley Camper Photography

Charles the cat made the big move from Manhattan to Maui and seems to be adjusting to the laid-back Hawaiian lifestyle just nice.

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Theresa Fine

Ty that the Chihuahua sits at his place on a chesterfield couch, wearing a gentlemanly sweater.

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Rikki Snyder

English bulldog Tater Tot is serious about having fun in this lively, candy-colored flat in Manhattan. He’s sitting on a red chaise that anchors his owner’s library. Behind him the walls are adorned using a DIY wine cork project, a deconstructed Scooby-Doo lunchbox and also a poster from a 1984 series of Jonathan Borofsky’s job at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Angela Flournoy

Finley the cat is perched ever on a few of his favourite spots in a colorful home in Dallas.

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Corynne Pless

Bailey that the Yorkie protects her owner’s beloved leather armchair. This home in Buford, Georgia, is decorated in a French country style with antique finds and tiny treasures.

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FISHER ARCHitecture

Mr. Martin feels right at home between design and art books. Anyone, book club?

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Corynne Pless

Luna the dog appears comfy in a corner nook in a West Asheville, North Carolina, home adorned with classic frames showing meaningful family keepsakes.

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Rikki Snyder

How could you resist a gentle tablecloth tug from this sweet kitty named Delilah? The mint-green seat was painted by her really creative proprietor, Kristin Nicholas.

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Lindsay von Hagel

Australian shepherds Oscar and Penny are begging for somebody to join them on this particular leather chaise. This is their owner’s creative space, housing a collection of inspirational items, books and a huge easel for painting. The Chevrolet truck tailgate is a snowball locate.

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Jason Snyder

Lakota, an Alaskan Malamute mix, is a happy camper before a wooden console showing travel mementos.

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Heather Banks

Mae the cat appears fairly happy in the master bedroom of this Austin, Texas, home. Behind her is a gallery wall of postcards by Yoshitomo Nara.

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Sarah Greenman

Rocky and Sara Garza’s goldendoodle, Samson, strikes a pose before a Native American portrait which Sara’s grandma painted.

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Mina Brinkey

Merlin that the fantastic Dane isn’t a stranger to classic style. He’s lounging in an old army cot on a patio in Tampa, Florida.

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Hilary Walker

Diego is thrilled to be lounging in a midcentury armchair and looks unimpressed from the grazing buffalo that appears on.

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Kimberley Bryan

This cat lolls from an Explanation walkway in Washington, absorbing its warmth. “I can’t even remember the cats’ names,” says homeowner Cari Horning. “It is just how it is. They are farm cats. Mousers. They do not come inside.”

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Rikki Snyder

Fourteen acres in upstate New York offer miniature horse Kokomo lots of space for drifting. He’s joined by a barn filled with different animals — six horses, four goats, five donkeys, nine cows, two barn cats, 1 house cat, two dogs, two parakeets, ducks and fish. Sometimes Kokomo’s owners will hitch on a little saddle so their granddaughter can ride him.

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Rikki Snyder

Pumpkin the pygmy goat has been the pet of New Yorkers Jen and Dick Lanne for Quite a While. Jen explains her as “a candy yet naughty monster that loves to get into everything!”

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Luci.D Interiors

Henry that the dachshund is prepared to take a ride down a slide to meet his owners on a family farm in Australia.

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Hoi Ning Wong

Inez, Friendly, Big Red, Struggles and Eden are just five hens which get to enjoy personalized nesting boxes and have loads of surfaces on which to ramble. The canvas sail over provides protection from the sun.

“My husband and I’ll head out and have a glass of wine in the coop from time to time,” says Michelle Pettigrew of Hillsborough, California. “We call it chicken therapy.”

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Luci.D Interiors

Australian border collie Sassy escapes the warmth on York stone paving in the shade of a veranda. This puppy is lucky to relish 70 acres of lush grazing property in the scenic town of Sutton Forest, halfway between Sydney and Canberra in Australia.

Luci.D Interiors

Sassy is joined by Andrew, the resident peacock, who strolls the 70-acre house in all his splendor.

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Sarah Natsumi Moore

Sherman that the beagle relaxes on his owner’s bed in Austin, Texas, under a 1920s framed picture that once hung in the home of this great-grandmother of among those owners.

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Esther Hershcovich

Sophia the kitty takes in each detail of her environment, such as an old magician’s tableturned–coffee table.

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Sarah Greenman

Munchie is a rescue dog and is pleased to share this screened-in porch, that doubles as a play area for a Dallas couple’s daughter, Goldie.

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Corynne Pless

Elvis, a dalmatian combination, appreciates the design and colour in this New Orleans Victorian.

Le Klein

Penny the cat listens in on household storytime taking place on a DIY banquette.

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Theresa Fine

This cat loves napping on a 19th-century bolt seat in a backyard loft-like space with vaulted ceilings and skylights.

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Shannon Malone

Lulu, a curly-haired dog, hangs out from the entrance area of her Santa Cruz, California, home. She is lying near a painting of Enid Brock’s great-grandmother.

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Margot Hartford Photography

Gypsy finds this built-in banquette a relaxing location where to view neighboring houseboats from the San Francisco Bay.

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Mary Prince Photography

Kasey that the Yorkshire terrier doesn’t appear to realize how lucky he is to run around in this Cape Cod, Massachusetts, beach house. Lean steel support beams encased in coffered ceiling moldings replaced the initial home’s much larger wooden beams.

Hilary Walker

Beagle–Boston terrier mix Lucy lounges on a sectional that divides open-plan living area. Behind Lucy hangs a “214” signal representing his owners’ wedding (Valentine’s Day) in addition to a Dallas area code.

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Mina Brinkey

Pugs Theo and Sydney mix right in with this couch and armchair on a lazy afternoon. Their guardian, Katie Gagnon, says, “All of my furniture is that the colour of my pugs, because they drop.”

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Hilary Walker

Aubrey and Kale Butcher’s curious beagle, Oliver, lounges on a neutral-colored sectional. Behind him are first built-in shelves with their backs painted to allow the couple’s collection of classic books and travel mementos stand out.

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Rikki Snyder

Judas the cat adds a minimalist silhouette to jewellery and fabric designer Caitlin Mociun’s eclectic flat in Brooklyn, New York. The flat was once a pub in the Brooklyn Navy Yard before it was gutted and converted to housing. High ceilings, painted brick, large windows and natural lighting mark the open and airy space.

Shannon Malone

Ginger that the Yorkie relaxes to a convertible sofa bed below a gallery of dog silhouettes.

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Shannon Malone

Eager to present for every picture, Burton blends in perfectly with all the white and beachy inside of this California home.

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Sarah Greenman

Thatcher leisurely strolls around his French country–style home in Dallas, which brims with flea market treasures, such as these dining room seats.

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Jason Snyder

Milo, a 13-year-old pug, poses unimpressed in front of a living room’s custom reclaimed-wood bookcases in a Pittsburgh home.

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Lucy Call

DIY design suits Earl, a Bichon-terrier combination, who’s maintained the sofa in a Salt Lake City home called a “sort of mutt.”

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Alex Amend Photography

Little dog, large space — Chihuahua Begonia is observed perched on her favorite couch in a San Francisco attic.

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Jeni Lee

Chocolate Lab Chico loves hanging out in this particular furniture retail shop attached to some family’s home in Australia.

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Candy the cat has lived in her Pittsburgh semicircular-shaped home since 1995 and has been embraced by Bob Moore and Scott Wise following the passing of Edith “Ditta” Lipkind, among the home’s original owners.

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Sarah Greenman

These Rhode Island Reds and Araucanas are hardy chickens that get to relish 7 sprawling acres in New Mansfield, Texas. They are also a huge help to their owners, Mary and Eddie Phillips. As the homeowners’ edible gardens evolved, hungry grasshoppers took a toll on plants. “We did not want to use chemicals,” Mary says, “so predatory birds seemed like the best idea. What could be greater than turning grasshoppers into eggs?”

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Theresa Fine

A household in Bennington, Vermont, shares their 100-acre house with numerous pets, such as their Great Pyrenees, Sophie, and their Newfoundland, Grace.

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