The new modern farmhouse-style kitchen is filled with natural wood touches.

Learn from my mistakes to save yourself a headache.

This tiny studio’s bedroom and living area started out dingy, but with some fresh paint and furniture it’s totally unrecognizable.

Sometimes there’s just nothing better than a simple change of color. And, when it comes to giving furniture and decor a brand new lease on life, for the least money and effort, the hands-down winner is spray paint. I’ve tried a lotta lotta spray paint, and recently found my new favorite. It’s easier to think of things I haven’t spray painted—my dogs, maybe—than all the things I have.

The new kitchen feels a lot more inviting.

Learn from my mistake!

If you want to give your home some extra character, you need to be shopping salvage. Here’s how.

This cabinet upgrade took some patience and DIY know-how to install, but the results have been worth it.

Plain risers are the perfect opportunity to infuse your stairs with personality.

Visions of Paris inspired this cozy makeover.

The guest bathroom in this Victorian-era home said goodbye to its wild carpet and hello to statement-making tile.

Paint and peel-and-stick wallpaper played a major role in this makeover.

Take a lesson from my reno missteps.

Bye, green carpet and rusted clawfoot tub.

I spent an extra couple hundred dollars, but the impact was huge.

Take it from this serial kitchen renovator.

This might give you pause.

You've probably never seen this popular DIY material used as a backsplash before, but it totally works.

Taking before-and-after images helped a renovator stay grounded.

Rarely can you take on a renovation that addresses everything all at once.

Here's what you didn't know.

Read up before you install one of these.

A cautionary tale.

Seeing big transformations is fun, but what do we owe the people whose homes we're renovating?

Want to become a person who can fix it all? Here's how to start.

They're dangerous, difficult, and expensive to do on my own—so I'll hire out every time.

I have to give my reasons for wanting certain finishes or fixes, and they can’t just be “because I like it that way.”

If you’re looking for a relatively painless, low-cost way to update your kitchen, and have ever been on the internet, you know that painting your cabinets is the way to go. Honestly, I can’t think of better dollar-to-dramatic improvement ratio on any other project. And the news gets better: It’s way easier now than it was the olden days, before the miracle of chalk paint.

As long as the tap turns on, you don’t really think about your water. But you may have a problem that shows up in other ways, and hard water is one you should definitely pay attention to.

So it’s time to stop telling yourself you’re okay with your old countertops, that they’re fiiiiiine, there’s nothing wrong with them, really. Because, truth be told, you just can’t stand to look at them one more minute. Maybe you tried an interim measure, a quick budget fix, but that reached its expiration point. The time has come and you couldn’t be more excited. But, before you get too giddy, there’s some bad news.

It's been a go-to resource for me.

Rest easy in your new home.

I learned this one the hard way.

Consider these drawbacks.