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Sitting Room Renovation
Caitriona

We love these beautiful shots from photo blog Caitriona.net. They show the progress of a small sitting room renovation, starting with the real estate listing before purchase, through the ugly side o...

Harrowing Tales of Home-Buying
ReadyMade

In their house hunt, the Johnsons came across several Eureka homes with "grow spaces" for a certain illicit crop... perfect for their future art studios! This month's issue of ReadyMade features a No...

Before & After: Lauren and John's First Kitchen

Lauren and John moved into their first home in August with big plans for a DIY renovation. For some of us that might mean several prolonged months of planning, but not for this couple; most of their p...

A Complete Colorful Kitchen Renovation...On a Budget
Before & After

Names: Susannah and Jeff Location: Seattle Renovation Budget: $9,000 (and they came in under!) Susannah and Jeff used to live in Chicago and we were lucky enough to be able to feature their small Hy...

3 Blind Mice by JAS Design-Build

There are so many great details in this home renovation by Seattle-based JAS Design-Build. The project, called 3 Blind Mice, employs salvaged materials and inventive use of space to create an up-to-...

Rough and Smooth Renovation in Barcelona
MocoLoco

Out of all the many remarkable design choices in this Barcelona apartment, recently renovated by Arquitectura-G, the intermingling of textures is what really gets us going. We just love the raw edges ...

Airstream as an Office Space

Just last week we posted about a few items that we admired from Able + Baker Etsy shop. This week we found out that they are about to embark on journey to renovate and transform an old Airstream into ...

Renovations in a Vintage Home: Keeping What's Good
Atomic Ranch

A recent article about an Eichler renovation brings up a good point and something to keep in mind when planning a renovation, especially of a vintage home. While it is wonderful to update and moderni...

Open-Air Addition Transforms Bungalow for Summer
Sunset

We frequently find ourselves drooling over the renovations documented in Sunset, but this one really knocked our socks off. Here's a couple, Gus and Stephanie Koven, whose little bungalow failed to in...

2009 Southern Home Awards: Best Before & After Project

A home in Beaufort, South Carolina won the Best Before & After Southern Home Award for 2009. It has been completely renovated by its owners, Michael and Jane Frederick, who are both architects. After ...

Before & After: Black Dining Room

Our post from last week, Inspiration: Dark Interiors, received many great comments from our readers. ModFruGal posted a link to a Before and After project of her dining room. It turned out so nice tha...

Porch Makeover On A Budget

The famous saying that one person's trash is another person's treasure is very much true especially in larger cities where just walking on a sidewalk can prove to be a wonderful way to find great item...

Boiler Shop Transformation

A 48 square meter boiler shop was completely transformed by an architect Nicolas Vignot into this amazing apartement. We love all the original elements that add industrial quality to otherwise very li...

Contemporary Renovation of an Historic Home

We've always struggled to find a happy medium between our modern, minimalist aesthetic, and our love for ornate, vintage details. It's resulted, for us, in a happy hybrid between contemporary and anti...

Peek Inside an Historic Home in Alamo Square

click thumbnails for larger picsIf you love to gawk at historic homes, especially frilly Victorians and colorful, staid Edwardians, the Alamo Square area is a lot of fun for an afternoon stroll. Ther...

Two Inspiring Porches: Better Homes and Gardens Contest

Nicole and Brandon's pretty new porch Oh, how I've always wanted an honest-to-goodness porch. Someplace to sit on a swing and perch my feet on a rail and sip lemonade (or bourbon). And fireflies, too...

Corona Heights Home (With a Few Surprises)

This massive three-story home in the Corona Heights neighborhood of the city has been featured in several media outlets recently. What makes it so special? Turns out it is green on top, blue on the in...

Before and After: Interiors by Digs

BeforeOn our recent trip to Portland we fell in love with a little shop in the Alberta District called Digs. It was teeny-tiny, but filled with bright and beautiful accessories for both the home and o...

Two Bay Area Met Home Winners

As Metropolitan Home's web site continues its countdown to Met Home of the Year, two Bay Area abodes have snagged spots as finalists. Both homes demonstrate the kind of innovation we like to think we'...

Great Ideas for Small Spaces: Condo Makeover
Sunset Magazine

Like in so many older buildings, the condo that Erik Barr and his wife Kim Baldwin bought had beautiful bones but was badly in need of an update. The makeover they dreamt up channels both warmth and ...

On Location: Updating the Haight
The New York Times 11.12.08

Recently, The New York Times showcased a three-story Haight-Ashbury Victorian that was transformed from a hippie boardinghouse into a modern family home by a husband-wife Norwegian architect and Potte...

Best of Dwell: Renovations

There's always plenty of eye candy within the pages of Dwell, so we get even more excited when they decided put up a slideshow on their website that showcases top projects. This time around the magaz...

Before and After: Our Bedroom

our bedroom before, jump below for after Over the past few months we've shared a few of our home projects. Today, we're showing off our bedroom. Like most of our renovations, this is mid-process. Win...