Bath: Salvaged Tarp Laundry Basket
We're always on the hunt for a good (and good-looking) laundry bag, so we were happy to spot the new Salvaged Tarp Laundry Basket at Restoration Hardware. Made from canvas tarps salvaged from market stall…
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Honest reviews of home products, furniture, and renovation materials to help homeowners make better choices.
An International Affair: Studio Oink Collaborate with a NY Design Team on a Young Family’s Brooklyn Townhouse
Meet the yours, mine, and ours remodel. Scarlett Shao and Joseph Casper are a couple who share a passion for modern design, and specifically for a look they describe as “minimal but lived in.” Wanting…
Maximum Light in a Narrow Los Angeles Home
Transforming space constraints into opportunities for good design is a favorite theme of ours; in this instance, LA-based Kevin Oreck (a Remodelista Architect/Design Directory member) has created a flexible, light-filled 1,500-square-foot home on an extremely…
Steal This Look: A Penny Tile Bath in Australia
In this project from Kennedy Nolan architects in Melbourne, Australia, the team initially set out to restore the midcentury house designed by designers Chancellor and Patrick, but structural issues meant a new build was in…
Before & After: Architect Pat Bernatz’s Reimagined House on the Hill in East LA
Architect Pat Bernatz first showed up on my radar back in 2020, when I came across his pitch-perfect, trend-proof redesign of an old Arts & Crafts-style house in Los Angeles for a client. It is…
10 Easy Pieces: Modern Cabinet Knobs
The easiest (and cheapest) way to spiff up a kitchen: replace the cabinet knobs. Cabinet knobs may be small in size, but their impact is large: The right choice can make all the difference in…
Before & After: Architect Pat Bernatz’s Reimagined House on the Hill in East LA
Architect Pat Bernatz first showed up on my radar back in 2020, when I came across his pitch-perfect, trend-proof redesign of an old Arts & Crafts-style house in Los Angeles for a client. It is…
8 Water-Saving Showerheads
True confession: I am a water-pressure junkie. Since that first apartment hunt in my early twenties, the first thing I do when looking at a new abode is race to the bathroom and turn on…
Fabrics & Linens: Kusaki Puff Towels from VivaTerra
Kusaki-zome is a Japanese technique that extracts pastel pigments from plants; in the case of Viva Terra's new Kusaki Puff Towels: chamomile, larkspur, and olive leaves. The towels come in soft organic Japanese cotton and…
Before & After: A Soulless Apartment Gets the ‘More Is More’ Treatment
Côte de Folk founder Sophie Rowell moonlights as a campanologist. Let me save you from having to Google the term and tell you now that a campanologist is one who rings church bells. It may…