House Tours

British stylist and interior designer Emily Rickard might finally be a homeowner after renting around the world, but she's still an absolute expert in renter-friendly style ideas that won't break the bank... plus inspiration for working with what you already have!

Originally built in the 1850s as pig barn, when Elle and Martin first bought this place, the floor was literally just earth. The couple did much of the conversion work themselves using mostly reclaimed materials to convert this barn into a cozy, rustic dream home!

The homeowner's best advice for creating a home you love? "DON'T BE TIMID."

This 128-year-old carriage house was in very poor condition due to decades of neglect. After being restored, it's now the perfect Victorian tiny house!

Andrea's 1952 tri-level was a time capsule when they purchased it; it hadn't been updated since it was built! Andrea and her husband replaced all the flooring, renovated the kitchen, and painted thousands and thousands of square feet of walls, ceilings, trim and doors.

Nasozi Kakembo’s home features a collection of traditional crafts, decor accents from Uganda, modern art, Danish furniture design, and a blend of her East African heritage with her American upbringing.

Interior stylist, content creator, jewelry designer, and Small/Cool experience designer David Quarles, IV let the appreciation for his heritage and his love of art and color influence how he curates his home.

Madeline and Michael's 120-year-old home has rickety original hardwood floors, tall ceilings, original light fixtures, a wood-burning fireplace, a sweeping staircase, transom windows, and other gorgeous charming historic details.

Among many other stylish decor elements, including a bathroom with absolutely stunning tile.

Musician Rachel Baiman and her husband, musician George Jackson, stumbled upon this former vacation cabin in Madison, Tennessee a few years ago. While full of charm, it needed A LOT of work, and the couple did much of the work themselves and on a budget.

Makea purchased an older home with good bones so she could make small improvements to it over the next couple of years. The first thing she did was paint every wall.

Marie's vision for this 1920s-era Seattle house was to strip away the changes that had been made in the '60s, '70s and '80s and add back the 1920s feel.

Built in 1901, this house needed a lot of work (like rewiring, re-plastering, new plumbing, and redecorating throughout), but Clare and Oliver immediately saw the potential of this gorgeous Edwardian filled with architecture charm!

Dani's three-bedroom Georgian style maisonette offers all the things you would expect with a period property, including high ceilings and a number of original features like parquet flooring and beautiful coving details in every room.

Mostly unused for almost 40 years, this house has tons of its original 1974 charm, like windows, tile, wood burning fireplaces, and an amazing solid wood front door.

Alicia went for plush furnishings (like velvet), deep, dark colors (like dark green walls), and unique artwork including custom neon lighting in her small UK terraced house.

This home already had tons of charm, like lots of windows, great molding, and cute built-ins. The designer and homeowners worked to allow those elements to shine when they refreshed this condo.

Despite having a tiny budget, Jerica has been able to transform her house into a unique, colorful, patterned, vibrant home thanks to tackling many of the projects herself, like a very cute dining banquette area.

Both supremely talented individually, architect and designer Alejo Petrucci and designer and artist Francisco Miranda worked together to create a home that perfectly showcases each of their styles and all of their skills.

Spike and Elizabeth Stone bought this bus on Facebook Marketplace, stripped it, and DIYed a home on wheels perfect for a young family. "We literally drove every single screw in the bus."

Sarah McPherson loves the evolution of her home. "As with most things in life, it is okay to experiment, try things, change things up, and change your mind."

Lydia and Mike had to get extremely creative in putting their stamp on their house while they save for further renovations.

Slick furniture, cool art, wild wall paint colors, a long hand-painted mural, three dogs, and a whole lot of reptiles... this mid-century house is packed with 1970s vibes.

This total fixer upper was dark, dingy, and closed off, so interior designer Isabelle Dahlin opened up the ceilings to expose original beams and put in skylight windows to brighten the space.

It was important to Julia and John to build a house in a way that was respectful of the environment and that would be sustainable to live in long-term. It took three years from when they started building to before they were able to move in, but it's because they did nearly all the work themselves while working full-time jobs.

Rehma's DIY paint job of the builder-grade, standard black tile fireplace and built mantel is just one of the great projects in this home.

Schoolhouse's Director of Product, Katie Elliott, lives in a Lovely Portland Home, and Yes There Are A Lot of Great Lamps

Musicians Jacki and Jacob Warren-Bullard, of the band Major Murphy, helped refresh this 1920s rental bungalow in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's full of renter-friendly ideas and inspiration.

This modern new-build in a Chicago suburb may be clean and modern, but Sunny Amirpor has filled it with collected soul and traditional details. "Don't be afraid to mix old with new, high with low."

Stuck with beige walls she isn't allowed to paint, Amara has injected color into her rental home without damaging the walls using creative and clever renter-friendly decor hacks in nearly every room. The result is a sanctuary of saturated hues!

Erica Leader and her husband were able to get into the Portland neighborhood they wanted by buying a MAJOR fixer upper from a man who had lived in the house for 50 years!

Kate Pearce transformed this Long Island fixer upper into a jaw-droppingly gorgeous home.

When Andy Grant first moved in to this house, every single surface in the home needed repainting... and she's been renovating it and adding her own personality through tons of DIY projects since.

This coach house was built in 1910 and converted to a residential home years ago, and while Jean loves A LOT about the home, they admit it may have been the windows that sealed the deal!

Artist Meredith Olinger has used her Memphis house as a gorgeous canvas for her colorful and patterned style.

Marie Cox renovated every single room in this three-bedroom, two-bath, 1700-square-foot Ranch house.

Audrey Sprinkle and her husband, Dustin, combined tons of DIY projects with vintage furniture finds to create a space for their family, which includes five kids and two dogs.

This creative couple bought an abandoned Airstream on the side of the road for $600, eventually spending two and a half years and $20k to completely renovate it themselves!

Conceptual art house designer and consultant Shawn Button's home in Los Angeles' Echo Park area is a delightful 1950s-era cabin surrounded by lush vegetation and filled with dreamy bohemian details.

Mandi Smethells' home was built in 1989, so the character is OAK, OAK, and MORE OAK; she's been spending the past four months "finding a balance of infusing my aesthetic but also embracing some of the '90s elements that are everywhere."

Trinity Shi of Cube House Jungle lives in a bright modern LA home that's full of bold bursts of colors on a crisp white background, surrounded with lots and lots of leafy green plant life.

This homeowner's advice for creating a home you love? "Get a disco ball and some plants."

Karina Mansfield recently painted the wall mural in her home's hallway, inspired by the local landscape and the work of Jean Dubuffet.

Mamie Morgan's home's style is described as "maximalism meets Amelia Bedelia meets my mother’s full-length fake fur from Costco."

Since the pandemic began, photographer Margaret Wright has been able to: Build a fluted dowel coffee table; paint fireplace tiles; build a DIY ping-pong table; color block the hallway; install the hallway light fixture; build and upholster a guest room headboard; and remove the screens and paint the old wood windows.

Alison and Stephen stripped rooms and rooms of old wallpaper and added their own, painted kitchen cabinets and every single wall, updated gardens, rebuilt the white picket fence, and more. After five years, this house is a character- and art-filled forever home.

This cottage hadn't been decorated in almost 30 years; the layout was dark and there were fake beams and faded maroon carpet. After ripping out walls and saving the old stone walls, the log burner, and the real beams discovered under a false ceiling, the home's renovation is amazing.

Over the past three years Joan has been transforming this new construction house to something more personal. So far she's painted, wallpapered several rooms, and even tiled the powder room floor and changed its vanity.

Emma and her family lost everything — baby photos, wedding mementos, family heirlooms, and $150K in home improvements in the Nun's Fire, which crossed over from Sonoma and devastated the Mt. Veeder area where they live.

This 1901 cottage was vacant for over a year before Amy bought it six months ago. She moved in two weeks before going into lockdown, and working from home for six months has meant she's been able to do a little improvement every day.

Actress Bitsie Tulloch had to start from scratch when it came to furnishing the new house she bought with her husband, actor David Giuntoli.

When clinical nutritionist, cook, and educator Angel Munro and her family first moved in to this home, the original house was very dark, and so their renovation’s aim was to make it as “white, airy, and light as possible.”

Ryan's rental was in bad condition: "the walls were a terrible shade of crimson, and there were dribbles of dust-stained wax on all the wash basins. Two days of elbow grease, hot water, and many bottles of cleaning agents later, the house was good to move in to."

Mindy King and her husband began an addition in 2020, doubling the size of their home, adding a mudroom/laundry, sunroom/reading nook, and bedroom and bathroom suite. "We designed it all ourselves and lived through the construction while working from home and sheltering in place."

Designer and children's book author September Scott describes her style as playful. "I’ve always loved incorporating old pieces with new and find that doing this adds much more personality and character to a space."

After downsizing to this 1000-square-foot house, Miranda Wulfekoetter gave this 1954 ranch home more personality, going on a DIY journey.

Interior stylist Tracey Hairston, who blogs under the moniker Mocha Girl Place, lives in a spacious ranch house she's decorated beautifully with warm, earthy colors, natural textures, and tons of plants, of course!

Jo Ann and her boyfriend lovingly and painstakingly renovated this 1959 cabin with their own personal tastes and whimsies. It's called "Little Apple A-Frame."

You'll fall in love with designer Laquita Tate's entire house, but especially the all-black living room, with black walls, a black fireplace, and two black Article chairs.

Taking the renovation process room by room, Vanessa and Félix have transformed the space into a warm — and very pink! — abode that reflects their bright and fun-loving personalities.

Alex Lucas's home has a gorgeous mural inside on the kitchen cabinets, too!

"Dedicating time and attention to designing spaces that are happy, healthy, and supportive is the ultimate form of wellness and self-care we can give ourselves and our family. There is a lot of power in good, intentional design."

Writer Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson has managed her sanity during quarantine by tackling some home refresh projects that were on her to-do list.

Bobbi, the creator behind earring brand Bobbi Made This, makes work that spreads joy "one ear at a time." And the colorful and fun home she shares with her family spreads joy one room, paint color, and art piece at a time!

Home Stylist and designer Rashmi Patel didn't want to deal with a renovation with two young kids, so she and her husband bought a new build. And they've slowly turned this house into a home!

Buying this house was a stretch for designer Amber Kaye's budget, so she had to decorate resourcefully by buying second-hand/vintage, upcycling furniture, and painting bathroom tiles.

Karen and her husband are interested in DIY and try to be sustainable, so they've bought preloved things or reupholstered furniture rather than buy new. She made curtains and cushions, painted furniture, and even painted a rainbow headboard.

Elizabeth Rees is the co-founder of wallpaper company, Chasing Paper, and her home has a gorgeous color palette, beautiful custom built-ins, and yes... great patterned wallpaper in many rooms.

Ceramic artist Cecilia Nigro's work is a beautiful blend of organic shapes, soft colors inspired by nature, and vibrant movement. Her home — which of course is filled with her ceramic wares like art, lamps, vessels and more — also reflects those elements. It's impossible to choose a favorite.

Marita McCausland, the owner of interiors and indoor plant store Into the Wild, shares this renovated 1940s weatherboard home with her husband Stuart, two young daughters, and two pet spoodles.

Katrina, the owner of home organizing company Badass Homelife, is big believer in minimalism, sustainability, DIYing projects, and incorporating her design and organization philosophies in this home she shares with her husband and their two dogs.

Julia is the painter behind Summer Svenson, a colorful collection of creations ranging from canvas, to baubles, to plant pots featuring energetic abstract patterns and an array of adorable motifs, like tigers, fish, cats, dogs, faces, and much, much more.