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Honest reviews of home products, furniture, and renovation materials to help homeowners make better choices.
Honest reviews of home products, furniture, and renovation materials to help homeowners make better choices.
Earlier this week, we featured the renovation of Brooklyn architect Roberto Sosa’s weekend farmhouse retreat in Duchess County, New York. (See Architect Visit: An Antiquarian Farmhouse in Upstate New York, Transformed.) We especially like Sosa’s simple…
Before opening his own studio in 2000, Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka designed many of Issey Miyake's shop interiors and displays. Yoshioka recently collaborated with Italian tile maker Mutina to create a line called Phenomenon, with…
Stonk Knots of Cornwall, England, hand produces rope accessories for both the home and garden based on traditional techniques. We particularly like the circular Stonk Rope Towel Rail made of p.o.s.h., a material originally intended…
Designers of the moment Roman and Williams created these bath accessories for the Ace Hotel in New York, using hardware parts sourced from McMaster-Carr. Dedicated DIYers could easily pull off the shower caddy and the…
Commissioned to overhaul an 1840s Brooklyn brownstone for a Swedish-American family of four, architects Solveig Fernlund (who also happens to be Swedish) and Neil Logan masterfully turned it into a house with dual citizenship. They tackled…
Forget the single-purpose bathmat: We love the look of a well-worn Persian or vintage rug in the bathroom. Here are 10 of our favorites. Above: At The Line in Los Angeles, a well-worn Oriental rug…
When actors (and hands-on remodelers) Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen decided to downsize to a 1949 three bedroom fixer-upper in Studio City, LA, they had to find space to fit their family of six. The…
One of our favorites design details in our first book, Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home, are the puddle-like mirrors in French designer Corinne Gilbert’s Brooklyn atelier. We had never encountered anything like them—until…
Located in the hinterlands of Byron Bay, the Australian seaside hangout and surfing hub, Sun Ranch channels the area’s hang loose vibe. But it does so in surprising, inventive ways: the resort is set on…
This minimalist yet glamorous bath in London, spotted on 1st Options, sent me on a search for silver interior wall paint. For a similar look, consider Ralph Lauren’s highly rated Regent Metallics line ("inspired by…