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Explore - Renovation
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Portland's Cape Cod Remodel
With its slim profile and sleek gray exterior, Lola Oyibo and Eric Boardman’s home in Portland, Oregon bears little resemblance to the house it used to be. Unable to afford the 40% down...
written by: Amara Holstein01.24.11 -
Just Redo It
What do you get when you give a couple of designers unlimited creative license on a very limited budget? For Andrew Dunbar and Zoee Astrakhan, the possibilities were limitless.
written by: Zahid Sardarphotos by: Justin Fantl01.24.11 -
Ruin Reborn
In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper. The property in southwestern France was idyllic, but its old mill, built in 1822, and three flanking outbuildings had...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Sarah Blee01.19.11 -
Hot Studs
The recent history of Janna Stark's San Francisco flat, located in an 1890's Victorian house, is literally burned into the wall.
written by: Lydia Leephotos by: Laura Flippen01.18.11 -
Dance Dance Renovation
The first time Houston-based architectural designer Barbara Hill set foot inside what would become her future second house, a 100-year-old adobe in Marfa, Texas, she found a cramped warren of rooms...
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Misty Keasler01.17.11 -
Hollywood Renovation: Week 5
In this exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture tracks the hands-on, tight-budgeted renovation of her and her partner's live-work rental in Los Angeles. Week 5...
written by: Linda Taalman01.07.11 -
Capital Gains: Sacramento Remodel
Sacramento architectural designer Curtis Popp bought and renovated, in three months, a five-bedroom, three-bath, 2,900-square-foot house that had, over the years, succumbed to a growing...
written by: Erika Heet01.01.11 -
Hollywood Renovation: Week 4
In this new, exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture will track the hands-on renovation of her and her partner's live-work space in Los Angeles. Week 4 pr...
written by: Linda Taalman12.25.10 -
Home to Tea House Transformation
In Eugene, Oregon, designer Ben Waechter turned a residential home into a tea house and sampling room by borrowing ideas from another building typology: the theater.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.21.10 -
Hollywood Renovation: Week 3
In this new, exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture will track the hands-on renovation of her and her partner's live-work space in Los Angeles. Week 3 proje...
written by: Linda Taalman12.20.10 -
Hollywood Renovation: Week 2
In this new, exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture will track the hands-on renovation of her and her partner's live-work space in Hollywood, California. Week...
written by: Linda Taalman12.10.10 -
Techbuilt House
The first residence built in Tuxedo Park, New York, after World War II wasn’t one of the Shingle-style mansions that proliferated there after the tycoon Pierre Lorillard IV developed the...
written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Carl Bellavia12.08.10 -
Hollywood Renovation: Week 1
In this new, exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture will track the hands-on renovation of her and her partner's live-work space in Hollywood, California....
written by: Linda Taalman12.03.10 -
House, Rotated: Prototype 180
On November 11, 2010, New York artist Mary Ellen Carroll rotated a single-family home in Houston’s aging first-ring suburb, Sharpstown, a neighborhood characterized by rows of post-WWII...
written by: Michelle Whitephotos by: Kenny Trice12.02.10 -
Bemz's Bright Idea
Last week I met with Lesley Pennington, a Canadian living in Sweden who in 2004 launched Bemz, one of the cleverest companies I've heard of recently. Bemz makes affordable custom-order slipcovers...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.30.10 -
Pulltab's Mini Vertical Garden
Enlisted to renovate an apartment in Manhattan's East Village, architects Melissa Baker and Jon Handley, partners at the firm pulltab design, took inspiration from the city's plethora of...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.23.10 -
Magnetic Walls, and Storage Made Sexy
When architects Hayes and James Slade of Slade Architecture renovated a three-story brownstone in Brooklyn for Ricky Kenig, the owner of the New York City's ubiquitous Ricky's NYC stores, and his...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.17.10 -
Soho Row House Renovation
The New York City-based firm Delson or Sherman Architects assembled this duplex apartment in a Soho row house from two stacked apartments and a new rear extension. Their clients were a single...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.06.10 -
Reflects Well
“The first floor was about making something warm and woody that would blend into the natural environment,” architect Stephen Chung says of his Wayland, Massachusetts, home. &ldquo...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Eirik Johnson10.18.10 -
Southern Greens
A change of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, neighborhood for Rick and Susan Moreland meant a chance to create a thoroughly modern house that owes its sleek, sustainable form to its vernacular roots.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: João Canziani09.24.10
