After a DIY Reno and Smart Space Planning, This Studio is Now Four Rooms in One
It was small, the kitchen was basically nonexistent, and the bathroom wasn't pretty, but Irene Shamas saw the potential in this studio unit. She worked with Luki Anderson of Studio Officina and EDR Construction to transform this small one-room apartment into a space that can be a living room, dining room, bedroom, office, and more.
Adrienne Breaux
Mar 10, 2023
13 Homes That Prove This Classic Wood Trend Is Back
Not covering your wood with paint can let the wood's texture and pattern shine. These 13 stunning homes below let natural wood finishes be the star of the show.
Adrienne Breaux
Mar 10, 2023
Smart Small-Space Ideas Make a One-Bedroom Apartment Work for a Mother and Son
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Photographer Breeana Dunbar has shaped this 560-square-foot one-bedroom apartment into the perfect home, including turning part of the living room into a bedroom for her son.
Adrienne Breaux
Mar 2, 2023
This Travel YouTuber's 420-Square-Foot Studio Apartment in Paris Is Perfect
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Travel YouTuber and author Damon Dominique rents this small studio/loft apartment in Paris that he describes as "Sex and the City cocktail hour meets Parisian museum."
Adrienne Breaux
Feb 22, 2023
This Charlotte Ranch-Style House Got an Update With Bold Colors and Patterns
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When Brandon started working with designer Amber on his North Carolina home, he didn't let any traditional decorating "rules" get in his way. They worked together to create a space that is clean and modern but lets his personality shine.
Adrienne Breaux
Feb 10, 2023
A 528-Square-Foot NYC Studio Uses Art & Wallpaper to Create Distinct Zones
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Because Jung Hi Han's rental is just a large rectangle, she had to figure out how to arrange the furniture to make different areas. "I used an IKEA bookcase to separate my 'bedroom' from the entry, along with wallpaper to visually create a bedroom. I used the gallery wall in my 'living room' to separate that space, and the two Tara McPherson prints to section off my 'dining room,'" Jung Hi explains.
Erin Derby
Feb 7, 2023
This Designer's Sacramento Home Is Full of Cool Vintage Finds
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LaToya Skinner, the owner and creative director of Lola Earl, a Sacramento-based interior design firm and retail home decor store selling sustainable, handmade, and vintage home decor and furniture, describes her home's style as cozy and soulful.
Adrienne Breaux
Feb 3, 2023
This Couple Effectively Fit Their 'Big' Furniture in a Small NYC Studio
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Chandler and Lucy were living in California when they decided to move to NYC for the first time. Though they initially were looking for one-bedrooms, when their friend saw a great studio on the Upper West Side, they submitted their application and trusted that it would work!
Adrienne Breaux
Jan 25, 2023
This TikToker's Ingenious DIY Created Incredibly Cool, Custom Knobs
The incredibly adorable DIY shaped door pulls by Kaitlin of Room in Bloom NYC are the perfect example of how to extend your personality into your home AND create a one-of-a-kind-space.
Adrienne Breaux
Jan 24, 2023
This Gorgeous Dutch Home Makes the Case for Adding Walls
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Linda and Marc painted rich colors on a few accent walls, incorporated a collection of fantastic furniture finds, and even added walls to some rooms, all to create personality and functionality to this new build house in The Netherlands.
Adrienne Breaux
Jan 24, 2023
A 355-Square-Foot Polish Apartment's Custom Kitchen and Partition Are Very Cool
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Civil engineer, ceramicist, and design and art lover Katarzyna Kowalska worked with architects Kalina and Robert Juchnevic, founders of blok585m2, to maximize the space of her 355-square-foot apartment, located in a four-story apartment block designed by a famous Polish architect couple in the 1960s.
Adrienne Breaux
Jan 23, 2023
20 Things You Learn from Living in a 100-Year-Old House
Architectural designer Nick Waldman and cookbook author Sarah Waldman learned a lot of lessons when they renovated a house built in the 1920s on Martha's Vineyard.
Adrienne Breaux
Jan 2, 2023
This 290-Square-Foot NYC Studio Uses Every Small Space Storage Trick in the Book
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Lucy was about to sign the lease on a Brooklyn apartment when she found her dream home in Manhattan. She switched gears and moved into this small studio during the pandemic, getting a big discount. She has thrifted and stooped many of her apartment treasures to create a stunning New York City home.
Adrienne Breaux
Jan 2, 2023
This Rental Has a Vintage '70s Pink Kitchen and Surprising Storage Mini Fridge
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Rachel and Ethan are a Texas couple living together for the first time in this duplex. With rent prices going up in Austin, Rachel and Ethan have saved money by scouring local vintage stores and Facebook Marketplace to make their home as unique and stylish as they are.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 21, 2022
This Minimal & Modern 538-Square-Foot Ukraine Studio Apartment Feels Much Larger
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After working with designer Natalie Dubrovska from Dubrovska Studios, Bogdan and Mariia were able to hone in on what they love about design. Natural materials add small touches of peace and fulfillment to a home that blends industrial with coziness.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 16, 2022
This Gorgeous Dutch Home Uses Cheese Boards in a Way You've Never Seen Before
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Ruth sells vintage goods on Instagram, and that love for thrift shopping carries over to her home in The Netherlands where she reuses items she finds in secondhand stores to bring a unique look to her home.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 14, 2022
Fanciful Trompe-l'œil Murals Make This 500-Square-Foot NYC Studio One-of-a-Kind
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When Calvin moved into his Manhattan apartment, he recruited the help of his friend Colton Ackerman to bring his home to life. Calvin's home now is covered in fun murals that make every inch of the place a work of art.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 12, 2022
11 of the Smartest Work-From-Home Solutions We Saw This Year
These small-space dwellers turned closets into miniature home offices, installed fold-down desks, designed custom solutions, and worked with what they already had to create highly efficient work zones... that also looked great, too.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 8, 2022
This 'DIY Queen's' San Fran Home Got Even More Colorful and Creative
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Tay BeepBoop is a designer and DIY-er on social media. When she accidentally bought five gallons of paint in different colors, she gave herself the challenge of adding tons of color to her San Francisco Victorian, turning it into a one-of-a-kind home.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 5, 2022
A 525-Square-Foot Studio's Redesign Is Inspired by Refreshing an Outdated Bed
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At first, designer Linda Cava only meant to replace her 10-year-old bedframe. But then she swapped out a bedside table to fit the new bed's style, next decided to trade the old sofa for a larger sectional... and then a mix of paint updates, vintage furniture elements, and more made her small home feel completely refreshed.
Adrienne Breaux
Dec 1, 2022
A Vintage Furniture Store Owner's Own Apartment Is as Stunning as a Showroom
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Fiona's Downtown Toronto apartment isn't afraid to break every rule. With a shower featured prominently in the kitchen and cool vintage furniture and accessories everywhere, this home highlights its unique quirks.
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 28, 2022
The 8 Biggest Small Space Design Mistakes (& How You Can Stop Making Them)
From studio apartments to tiny, odd-shaped bedrooms to every other small space in between, tiny homes require a gentle touch, lots of planning and a willingness to learn from your mistakes. And we’ve got eight you might be making in designing your small space. But don’t worry — we’ve also got suggestions on how to change! We’re looking at you, vertical space, under-the-bed space, over-the-door space and more.
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 14, 2022
Your Best Week Ever Sunday Checklist: Do These 7 Things in Your Home Today
How does one craft the kind of work week that soothes the soul, flows smoothly and leaves you energized by the time the weekend rolls around again? By taking advantage of a built-in good mood and tackling a few key home to-dos on Sunday. It’s not about aiming for perfection or scrubbing every surface — it’s about setting yourself up to win starting on Monday morning to stay strong through all the conference calls, traffic commutes and PTA meetings.
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 14, 2022
How To Clean Your Bedroom Thoroughly and Efficiently: A Quick & Easy Guide
The key to cleaning a room quickly is an understanding of which tasks to tackle first and knowing which tools you need before you start (so you don’t have to walk back and forth through your house a million times), as well as possessing a simple list of instructions in the order you need to go in to ensure that not much thinking is required. Below is everything to know in order to quickly clean your bedroom!
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 7, 2022
Renters of This Loft Share Secrets of Budget Buys & Keeping Giant Plants Alive
In the past five years since AT toured Puno and Daniel's home, the loft has maintained many of its enviable qualities like gorgeous light and super cool vibes. But there have been lots of updates, too.
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 4, 2022
GIF Magic: Think Pink-ish
There's a reason blush is the new neutral. And these GIFs show how this color works well with any decor style!
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 3, 2022
The 9 Best Kitchen Updates You CAN Do (When You Can’t Renovate Your Rental)
Whether you’re renting and can’t do a lot of permanent damage, or even if you own a house but just don’t have a budget to tear everything out and start from scratch, you can still make impactful changes and additions that will make your kitchen quite a bit nicer to look at (and nicer to use, too) without a reno.
Adrienne Breaux
Nov 2, 2022
This Japanese-Inspired L.A. Apartment Features Brilliant Storage Ideas
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Amanda's apartment in the Arts District of Los Angeles sits above an old factory. Her Japanese-inspired home is filled with a neutral palette that gives the space a clean and homey feel to allow conversations between friends to flow.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 28, 2022
Never Want to Leave: 10 Tips for Making Your Home the Most Inviting Yet
Having a home that is inviting — that beckons to visitors and lingers in the minds of guests — makes for both an enjoyable and memorable place. And there’s a bonus benefit to creating a home that is inviting to guests: it’s often more inviting to you, too! We’ve got ten tips to try that will help you craft a home that welcomes everyone who walks through its doors — though, warning, it may make them never want to leave!
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 27, 2022
Before & After: An Outdated, Blank Condo Now Has a Cool 'Parisian Modern' Look
Brianna Holt, a freelance journalist, took this plain condo and transformed it with a Parisian Modern-inspired aesthetic, fully remodeling the kitchen, renovating the bathroom, installing built-in shelves, and adding new doors and crown molding throughout.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 25, 2022
How to Deal (Stylishly) with Wall-to-Wall Carpet
What to do if you don't have the permission, the desire, or the budget to pull up all your wall-to-wall carpet.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 22, 2022
A Designer's Portland House Is a Maximalist, Pastel Ode to '70s & '80s Interiors
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Multi-disciplinary designer Courn Ahn is the owner and founder of Courtney Ahn Design, a creative studio that “prioritizes work with BIPOC, queer, and woman-owned businesses.” Their home is a colorful, maximalist, pastel space inspired by '70s + '80s interiors, contemporary art, Memphis style.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 17, 2022
Why Hannah & Brandon’s Living Room Works: 7 Lessons to Steal
A common problem with many living spaces is either going too overboard with stuff that the whole space feels unpleasant, or trying to go minimal and ending up with a room that feels empty. But there’s a perfect sweet spot where you can have a room that has just the right amount of elements. We think this living room gets it just right. This room from Hannah & Brandon’s “Ever Evolving” Classically Modern Reno is working beautifully because of these design details: 1.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 16, 2022
How To Create a Home That All Your Friends Want to Hang Out In
Do you fantasize about having the kind of home that everyone wants to hang out in? Do you daydream about dinner parties where the lights are lit low, the food is delicious and the conversation a mix of intelligent discourse and lighthearted teasing? Do you want to start your own tradition with friends in your own home? Whatever your reasons for wanting to have the kind of place that your friends always want to hang out in, here are the things to try in your space to transform it.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 16, 2022
A Better Bedside: 9 Idea-Sparking Nightstand Makeovers
Old becomes new with these inspiring design tweaks.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 15, 2022
The Best Decorating Tips for Long or Narrow Rooms and Hallways
Does your home feature a long, narrow living room, kitchen, hallway, bedroom or some other space? There are some decorating tricks and tips that can really help balance out a long and narrow space and make your room feel more visually balanced (and more comfortable to be in). Try one or more of these tips today. It’s not that you always have to match the shape or style of room you have when you’re looking for furniture.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 14, 2022
Small Bathroom Ideas: 6 Changes to Make Tiny Bathrooms Feel More Spacious
Do you have a cramped, small, hard-to-move in bathroom? Do you feel slightly claustrophobic every morning when getting ready for work? If you rent or don’t have the funds for a huge wall-moving renovation that will literally give you more space, try one of these six ideas that could improve the feel, at least. Some changes are big, and some are small, but all will go toward creating a more spacious feeling space — perhaps you’ll find something you can try this weekend?
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 14, 2022
Take the Weight Off: 5 DIY Tricks to Make a Heavy Furniture Piece Look Lighter
Do you have a piece of furniture in your home you love, but it’s just a little too “heavy?” We don’t mean weight-wise (though certainly, it could be heavy that way, too). We mean, visually heavy. A piece that feels like it takes up too much room. Like it knocks off the visual balance of a space. Here are five of the best tricks to visually lighten up a heavy furniture piece and still make it look great.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 14, 2022
Bold in the Bedroom: 8 Perfect Paint Colors for a Moody Sleep Space
Whether you’re into deep, rich wall colors or not, going for a dark color in the bedroom may seem scary — after all, no one wants to feel like they’re sleeping in a cave! But with dark grays, rich browns, tantalizing jewel tones and even a “shocking” cobalt blue, the proof in these stylish bedrooms from our house tours is convincing.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 14, 2022
Small Bathroom Ideas: 5 Effective Decluttering Tips for a Tidier Space
If you always feel like your small bathroom is drowning in toiletries, cleaning supplies and hair products, it’s time to get serious about creating a bathroom that works. Why? Because it’s the spot in your home you probably spend time in getting ready every morning, and cleaning out this small space for good will mean eliminating mess stress before going into work every day. Here are five tips that will work if you keep them going. 1.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 14, 2022
9 Art Displaying Mistakes Everyone Makes at Least Once (And How to Never Make Them Again)
Art is, and probably will forever be, an integral part of decorating and making a home. What’s not vital? Making the same art displaying mistakes that many of us have probably made at least once in our home-decorating histories. These are some of the most common art-displaying mistakes that can be avoided. Some people cringe when they see a picture frame crooked. Me?
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 13, 2022
Inexpensive Organizers Everyone With a Small Bathroom Should Be Using
If you’ve got a small bathroom, you’re really making a fatal design and storage mistake by not including these five smart storage tools. These five items will give you more storage space, make your existing storage space more efficient and make using your small bathroom a lot more enjoyable. Hate opening your bathroom drawers to a jumble of toiletries? Create your own affordable drawer dividers to transform those junk drawers into spaces that make you happy to open and use every day.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 13, 2022
6 Ways to Pinpoint Your Home Decor Style
Envious of folks who seem to instantly know what they love? Who never question whether a new furniture piece is their style because they know so confidently what their style is? We’ve got seven ways you can learn how to pinpoint your style quicker and more easily. Whether you’re facing a new blank home that needs filling or you look around your current one and just aren’t sure if looks like you, there might be some ways you can pinpoint the look.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 13, 2022
Feeling It: Wall Treatment Ideas to Match Any Mood
What you do to your walls can have a HUGE impact on the look, feel and mood of your home. So start with how you’d like the room to feel — what kind of vibe you’d like it to rock — and use this guide to give you ideas for the kind of treatment that would work for your walls. Go for polka dots! Paint the on or use vinyl wall decal stickers to get the look. Go for a medium-hue gray. Amherst Grey by Benjamin Moore really sets just the right tone in the room below.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 12, 2022
5 Furniture Pieces You Can Totally Live Without
Are you looking for ways to trim a little furniture weight around the house? Get rid of a few pieces that you thought you might need but could totally live without to have more room (and less stuff to haul around next moving day?) Examine the five furniture types we mention in this post to see if you and your home could live without them!
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 12, 2022
The 7 Most Potent Stylist Skills to Master For Stand-Out Rooms
After you’ve picked out the architecture (or are working with what you’ve been stuck with) and after you’ve chosen the major furnishings and the paint colors, there’s the other thing that can make a room sing: skillful styling. This year, make each room pop like never before with these potent styling tricks for stand-out spaces! Add visual height to your spaces — all of them.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 12, 2022
Decor Faux Pas to Fix Before Holiday Guests Arrive
As the season of inviting people to your home to gather during the holidays nears, now might be the right time to do a walk-through of your rooms with a more critical eye. Take your home from good to great by fixing these decor faux pas before the first holiday guest arrives! While knowing that your in-laws are going to be visiting your home this holiday season may have you wishing you could run out and buy new everything, don’t.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 11, 2022
A 693-Square-Foot Condo's Reno Turned a Tired Space into a Modern, Playful Home
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Jahzeel and Joseph, who are both vintage furniture hunters and sellers, live with their two cats in a San Diego condo they renovated, replacing old appliances and bulky kitchen cabinets, adding fresh paint, and incorporating STUNNING vintage art and furniture pieces throughout. They also turned a closet into a top notch cat bathroom!
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 11, 2022