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When DIYer and content creator Megan Zietz and her family moved from their old apartment into a new one that had cherry reddish-brown kitchen cabinets, Megan learned an important lesson: Sometimes it’s best to work with brown cabinets, not against them. “I finally — after months of fighting the idea — decided to lean into the cabinet color,” she says.

When a room’s layout isn’t working, you change it to work for you. In Sean Matthew Robinson’s case, he flipped his entire apartment because the layout wasn’t working. Originally in his Hell’s Kitchen apartment a tiny living room was at the front of the railway-style apartment, and two small bedrooms were at the opposite end.

My kitchen was once a blank canvas, an uninspiring white-walled space when I moved in. Although the space was brand-new, it lacked the warmth, personality, and soul I wanted to surround myself with.I bought my apartment and moved in in July 2022, and from that very first day, I knew that every inch of the room would need to feel like me, which would take time, effort, and a lot of love — but I was up for the challenge.

New mom Maisie Powers didn’t have much time to design a nursery for her son, Arlo. She and her husband moved into their house in June 2025, and the baby was due in December, so Maisie had to work quickly when transforming what had previously been a guest room. “The design inspiration came from various other nurseries I had seen on Pinterest, mixed with my love of traditional home decor,” Maisie shares.

In some homes, it makes sense to tuck a play area away — in a basement or living room corner, for example. But sometimes, if you have the right space, a playroom can serve as the center and soul of a house. After a pitch-perfect makeover, that’s now exactly the case for Vicky Burton’s family.Initially, their playroom was the dining room in their home in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Two guiding principles led to the design of 3-year-old Leo’s bedroom for Los Angeles-based interior designer and documentary filmmaker Reilly Dowd. For starters, she wanted to prove that “a room with no beautiful ‘features’ to begin with could be the most magical space in the house.” Secondly, Reilly wanted her son to be the “editor-in-chief” of his room’s design.

Kim Cox’s three kids are the fourth generation to live in their house, and the newest sibling is seriously benefiting from a decision her husband’s grandparents made decades ago. In the 1990s, those grandparents added an extension off of their primary bedroom to create a sort of glam room for “Gran” — a “wardrobe room” where she could also apply her makeup.

“The breakfast nook was one of those spaces that had so much potential but never felt intentional,” Carmen Murphy shares. Carmen and her boyfriend had moved in together two years ago and had been slowly transforming their apartment.But the couple never really did anything with this space — besides accidentally making it a catchall — because “it’s oddly shaped and in front of the bedroom door.

Here’s a home renovation you don’t hear about every day: turning a bedroom into a kitchen, and vice versa. But several months ago, Emma Shoemaker (@shoemakesnew) decided to do exactly that, swapping her kitchen and her 4-year-old son Theo’s bedroom.