101 Renovation
The agony and ecstasy of home renovations, featuring case studies, caveats, and true confessions.
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Our Renovation
Every night I said, “Trust me, sweetheart, this is going to be amazing, beautiful, fantastic
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Before You Renovate
Finding the perfect home sometimes means creating it. Renovation can require as much effort in the planning as in the execution so you’ll need some patience—and you should arm yourself…
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Face Off: Looking Good on the Outside
The husband-and-wife architecture team Halpert & Ruiz know that if a house’s face is pretty from the outside and views are good from within, as a landlord you will have an easier time…
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Clever Details Increase Property Value
Doing something unique can increase a home’s resale value.
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Kitting Out Kitchen and Bath
The most intensely used rooms in the house depend on good plumbing, ventilation, and electrical systems, and contain the highest number of fixtures per square foot—all of which makes…
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Strategic Changes Make a Big Impression
Designer Francois Lévy and his wife, Julie, bought an abandoned 1904 train depot and transported it 50 miles to an inner-city lot in Austin, Texas.
Articles
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Before You Renovate
Finding the perfect home sometimes means creating it. Renovation can require as much effort in the planning as in the execution so you’ll need some patience—and you should arm yourself…
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Our Renovation
Every night I said, “Trust me, sweetheart, this is going to be amazing, beautiful, fantastic
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Serra Residence Renovation
When residents Gino and Paetra Serra decided to renovate their 1933 Italianate foursquare-plan home in Kansas City, Missouri, to accommodate their growing family, they made sure that in addition to…
Dwell Collection
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A Look at Kitchen Renovations
A collection of some of our favorite kitchen renovations from our archives.
Tips
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Stick Around during a Renovation
I learned during our kitchen renovation that it really is a full-time job. If you want it done right and according to your vision, and not that of your contractor, be available. Make sure every…
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What Lies Beneath...the Cabinets
We needed a cheap way to update our 1970s kitchen cabinets, so we turned the cabinets inside-out to use the simple frame of the interior instead of the elaborate curvy countryish look of the…
Videos
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New Prospects: The Sherman Residence
In this video accompanying our September 2011 My House story, architect Jeff Sherman guides us through his airy Brooklyn rowhouse—a onetime dilapidated dog kennel—which he painstakingly renovated…
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Building Green in Harlem: A Green Brownstone?
In this video series, Dwell follows a New York couple with a passion for building green through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the design-build team to…
Events
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Operation Restore Defenestration
Whether it be positive or negative, people always have an opinion on the building that has furniture scurrying across its' walls on 6th and Howard. Some people hate the blighted Hugo Hotel while…
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Finding Money to Restore Historic Buildings: An Introduction to Preservation Tax Credits
This discussion will focus on the basics of the Rehabilitation Tax Credits program, using case studies as examples, and will give an overview of which redevelopment projects are eligible, and how…
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