The fall issue of T Design & Living offers a glimpse into the homes of two families who don’t do anything half way. For the artist and art director Mike Meire, that means filling an ever-expanding apartment in Cologne, Germany with an idiosyncratic melange of design objects, contemporary art and the happy clutter of a modern family. An entirely different kind of commitment prompted a New York couple to turn their Upper East Side town house into an ode to the late-19th century Aesthetic Movement, complete with carved woodwork, richly patterned wallpapers and fabrics, and museum-quality furnishings and ceramics of the period. T also visits a collection of conifers at the New York Botanical Garden, looks at a collection of structures designed for dogs, checks out a new design museum in Moscow and climbs up into a California tree house.