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Before & After: An Outdated, Blank Condo Now Has a Cool 'Parisian Modern' Look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
How Big Is 500 Square Feet? 10 Real Homes Illustrate What It’s Like.
These actual homes — from lofts, to studio apartments, to houses — will illustrate how big 500 square feet is and what it feels like to live in such a small space.
Nancy Mitchell
Oct 6, 2022
A 520-Square-Foot Seattle Micro Studio Has Efficient Storage and a Roof Deck
Hannah Herman actually worked on the design of her apartment building before she decided to move in, so she was already ahead on the creative challenge of furnishing such a small space.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 6, 2022
A Minneapolis Family House Is So Charming It's Like a Little Cabin in the City
Alexandra Bennett, who was previously the owner of the Minneapolis-based contemporary quilt studio, Louise Gray, hired Victoria Sass, founder of the interiors firm Prospect Refuge Studio, to update their single-family house in Minneapolis.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 4, 2022
How To Live Alone Without Feeling Lonely
Whether by choice or by circumstance, living alone has a lot of advantages. But perhaps one of the most subtle yet saddest disadvantages is sometimes feeling lonely. And though occasional feelings of loneliness are natural, why feel lonely when you don’t have to? There are things you can do to create a home that repels loneliness when you live solo. This is the most important one in my opinion. I think you need to throw your curtains open every day. Let the light in.
Adrienne Breaux
Oct 3, 2022
This Jetsetter's Bright Miami Loft Has a High Joy Ratio
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As a travel writer, Sarah wanted her home to feel like a sanctuary. She filled her home with color and a design that invites happiness in.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 30, 2022
Take a Break: 5 Phone-Free Zones at Home
A new year, a new opportunity to start and master habits that will add to your overall well-being. One small, kind-of weird habit you could work on this month to master for this year? Not using your smart phone in certain spots in the home. We’ve seen in recent years a backlash on smart phone usage in certain public areas — whip your cell phone out and start Facebooking during a friendly dinner and you’ll probably get chastised.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 26, 2022
A 550-Square-Foot Harlem Brownstone Was Transformed Into an Urban Jungle
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When Victoria was subletting in New York for the summer, her cab home drove past a brownstone in Harlem with a "For Rent" sign in the window. She had her driver let her out early in front of the building that would become her new home.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 23, 2022
This Cozy Upper West Side Apartment Offers Color and Community
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After living in New York City for 10 years, Maria has found a place where she feels at home with great neighbors. Through the help of second-hands furniture and paint, she has created a gorgeous studio apartment.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 20, 2022
This Renter Wasn't Impressed by His NYC Loft — Until He Saw It on AT
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During the pandemic, Brian left his apartment with a rotating cast of roommates and gave himself time to find his perfect home. When this loft in the West Village went up, he knew he had to have it. He has since converted the small space into a plant filled oasis.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 19, 2022
This Musical Nashville Family Tours The Country in Their Americana Airstream
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Steve and Gracie explored the country in a variety of airstreams, but once they had kids, they decided it was time to buy one of their own to continue their life on wheels as a family.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 16, 2022
These Lower East Side Designers Built Their Tiny Home Out Of Things They Love
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Pratika and Mareya are roommates with an eye for design. They've made their small NYC apartment feel bigger with the use of natural light. They focus on surrounding themselves with things they love to complete the space.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 15, 2022
This Boise Artist's Modern Home Has Cozy Bed Nooks and Cute Tiny Houses
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Stephanie uses her house in Idaho as not only a home but also a studio for her art. With tall ceilings and plenty of light, she has made her house into a modern Scandinavian-style space.
Adrienne Breaux
Sep 9, 2022
This Vintage Chicago Timber Loft Is Curated With Old and New Pieces
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Jamie's Chicago loft brings in elements that have been picked slowly over time. She advises that people take their time when picking out everything for their home so it can reflect their live adventure.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 31, 2022
A Florist's Minimal Ukraine Apartment Utilizes Gray in a Modern Way
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When designer Elena Petresku began creating a vision for Oksana's apartment, they were working together remotely and she didn't know if her vision -- or the power of gray -- would translate. Now they've created a modern space that balances the colors of the city.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 30, 2022
The Latest Art Trend Is Marvelously Huge — and You Can Buy It or DIY
As these homes of all sizes and styles prove, adding comically oversized art pieces of objects, edibles, and animals into the mix is a great way to inject whimsy and joy into a home.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 19, 2022
A 350-Square-Foot Dublin Tiny House Embraces Dark and Moody Colors
This small home was very bland when Orla Asawa and her husband bought it, "but with some paint, and the right furniture, we have made it comfortable and spacious."
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 15, 2022
A Colorful Mumbai Home Houses Three Generations (& Four Distinct Personalities!)
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With so many different generations and personalities having to share the same home, the family hired designers Kasturi Wagh and Vineet Hingorani of kaviar:collaborative to help them design this apartment to work for everyone.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 5, 2022
This Teeny 340-Square-Foot NYC Studio Works Thanks to Double-Duty Furniture
Dale Aucoin's tiny studio apartment can transform into lots of different spaces, despite only being one room!
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 4, 2022
A 500-Square-Foot Singapore Studio Is Small But Smart
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Redzuan Idris' small flat features smart furniture and appliance choices so that the home feels much larger than it is.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 3, 2022
This Renter's Apartment Is a Love Letter to Her Ancestors and Homeland of Punjab
"My studio is both a museum and an altar to my family’s memories of partition, migration, and cultural richness, with indigenous art, sepia tone photos, and Indian block print textiles dotting every nook and cranny," Sonya Soni explains.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 3, 2022
This Designer's Nairobi Apartment Is How You Design for 'Joyful Living'
Originally from Kenya, Ash Appleton splits her time between London and this two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Nairobi’s vibrant Westlands’ neighborhood, which she has been renovating to reflect her “modern, bold, bright, blended, and whimsical” sense of style since purchasing in 2016.
Adrienne Breaux
Aug 1, 2022
A Furniture Designer's California Cottage Is Colorful and Joyful
Designer Laurel Harrington has filled her Mill Valley cottage with a ton of color and cheerful furniture designs.
Adrienne Breaux
Jul 29, 2022
This Creative Couple Flocked to the Suburbs for a Slower Lifestyle
Built in 1920, this rental rowhome's builder-grade renovation stripped it of its original character, but renters Bryce and Stefan have been on a mission to "inject some love and character back into the space."
Adrienne Breaux
Jul 25, 2022
A Stunning Savannah Home's Incredible Reno Includes Envy-Inducing Color
Carla's duplex in Savannah had been rented to students and not updated in decades before she bought; one of the toilets almost fell through the floor when renovation began. Two years later and the whole place looks entirely different!
Adrienne Breaux
Jul 21, 2022
This Muralist Doesn't Let Renting Get in the Way of Having a Colorful Home
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Mural artist and content creator Champagne shares this large rental home with two roommates, a cat named Pony, and a dog named Ted. She loves mixing modern pieces with vintage elements. "I’d call it a colorful eclectic mix of happiness."
Adrienne Breaux
Jul 20, 2022
A Family of 4's Colorful 450-Square-Foot Home Has Brilliant Small-Space Ideas
There's an incredibly brilliant Murphy bed design, adjustable and extendable furniture, furniture on wheels, and a dreamy outdoor bathtub.
Adrienne Breaux
Jul 13, 2022