Before & After: Here’s What It Took to Give a Historic Palazzo a Royal Revamp Living in an Italian villa might sound like a dream—but restoring this property involved rebuilding the structure, updating the...
Before & After: Touring Midcentury Homes Was an Obsession. Then They Got to Revive One by Saul Zaik Removing a mezzanine level shrouding a skylight in the 1963 Portland residence was just the first step.
Budget Breakdown: For $213K, a Creative Couple Remodel a Cozy California Cabin—Without Drywall Color and vintage furnishings make this 1977 gem “feel like a hug.”
Budget Breakdown: A Designer Embraces the Hippie Vibes in Her Portland Kitchen for $45K Stephanie Dyer and her husband, Samuel, celebrate the quirks, handicraft, and patchwork of wood in their 1898 home.
Before & After: In Merida, a Remodeled Concrete Bungalow Honors Tradition FMT Estudio refashions a 1928 home with custom wooden windows, modern ironwork, and a serene courtyard pool.
Before & After: Trees Grow Right Through the Roof of This Revived Farmhouse in India The founders of the firm D’Well turn a crumbling dwelling into a serene architecture studio where nature takes center stage.
Before & After: They Gave Their Portland Ranch House a “Midsommar Modern” Revamp Moody florals meet custom millwork and gleaming brass in this Pacific Northwest midcentury reno by Bright Designlab.
Before & After: This 1881 Schoolhouse Conversion Is a Master Class in Adaptive Reuse Bowerbird Architects preserved the building’s windows, wainscot, and chalk rail while converting it into a three-bedroom getaway...
Before & After: They Brought Their Buff and Hensman Midcentury Back to Its Original Glory A couple tap Cover Architecture and EEK Studio to install custom casework, ribbed glass, and a grand fireplace while staying true...
Before & After: Rich Color and Millwork Revive a Historic New Orleans Shotgun Home for $198K A designer couple collaborate on a breakneck, six-month remodel to ready their 1910 home for their new baby.
Budget Breakdown: One of the Oldest A-Frames In Arrowbear Lake, CA, Gets A Moody Makeover for $177K “Think old Hollywood speakeasy rather than your grandfather’s cabin,” says designer and owner Jacqueline Blum.
This Tiny Seattle Houseboat Is Just What the Doctor Ordered Charmed by the life aquatic, a physician tasks GO'C to create a 618-square-foot floating home with three decks, a full kitchen,...
Before & After: In Seattle, a 1904 House Sheds Decades of Remodels—and Five Tons of Debris Best Practice Architecture founding partner Ian Butcher helps a friend carve away layers of a historic home while embracing its...
Before & After: They Gave Their Tiny Kitchen a Donald Judd–Inspired Upgrade “It was too boxed in. It was what some people call a one-butt kitchen.”
Before & After: They Gave Their Fussy Hill Country Cabin a “Subtractive” Makeover In Texas, where everything is bigger, a couple bring a 1908 home back to basics by paring away the decorative excess of past...
Budget Breakdown: They Gave a Bland ’70s Cabin a Psychedelic Glow-Up for $120K For their first DIY renovation, Whimsy Soul cofounders Kara Harms and Robin Berenson infuse a woodsy getaway with vintage vibes,...
Before & After: Savvy Storage Makes This Mumbai Flat Work for Three Generations Kaviar Collaborative livens up a blank-slate three-bedroom apartment with a pastel palette and custom built-in furniture.
Construction Diary: It Took a Decade, But Their Experimental, DIY Home Was Worth the Wait Using an abandoned Portland house as their personal design lab, the couple behind JHL Design craft a sustainable, cost-effective...
Before & After: The Brownstone Boys Overhaul a Brooklyn Garage Into a Family Home Barry Bordelon and Jordan Slocum convert an 1894 carriage house into a bright dwelling with a central courtyard, two rooftop...
Before & After: Old Beams Meet a New Metal Staircase in a 1700s Farmhouse in New Jersey Fuller/Overby Architecture inserts treads and railing in perforated steel, a colorful bathroom, and sleek millwork that...
Before & After: In Austin, a New Life Out West Starts With a First Remodel for $176K “When you have a beginner’s mind, you don’t know what you don’t know.”
Before & After: With a Crisp Addition, a Cookie-Cutter Eichler Breaks Out of Its Shell In Sunnyvale, Blaine Architects expands a run-of-the-mill midcentury with a serene courtyard and a subtle yet stylish studio.
Before & After: An Old Montreal Apartment Embraces Sharp Contrast—and a Surprise Sauna La Firme designs a strikingly unconventional pied-à-terre to feel like “a tunnel transporting us to a new dimension.”
Before & After: With a Little Help From Friends, an Architect Couple DIY Their Bilbao Apartment First, they tore down the walls of the former boarding house.
Before & After: The (Potential) Views Were the Most Promising Part of This Cape Town Home Architect Werner Lotz and interior designer Jenine Bruce reworked the midcentury’s convoluted, split-level plan to connect it...
Before & After: Their Brooklyn Limestone Was Trapped in the ’90s, so They Set It Free A couple call on architect Sonya Lee to polish up the historic home’s flooring, fretwork, and built-ins, overhaul its...
Before & After: A Series of Unfortunate Updates Are Reversed at This Brooklyn Brownstone A couple turns back the clock on the Williamsburg townhome, mixing time appropriate touches with a few funky—but fitting—finds of...
Before & After: Their Job Is Discovering Hidden Gems. Their Brooklyn Townhouse Is One of Them Charmed by a historic home’s ornate details—but wary of its run-down state—the couple behind Untapped New York save what they can...
NYC Is Old News for This Surf-Crazy Couple Who Moved to Montauk and Built a Beach House A long vacation in Ditch Plains turned into a permanent one for Kristi and her husband, who built a gable-sided wood-and-glass...
The Pool Was a Priority. So They Dove Into the Details Tricked out with a green rooftop deck, underwater windows, and a DJ station, this Vancouver family home knows how to have a good...
Before & After: A Couple Crack Open a Cramped Brick House on a Washington Oyster Farm SHED Architecture + Design refreshes a Kitsap Peninsula home by taking down walls, doubling down on dormers, and polishing up its...
Before & After: A Couple Turn a Bare-Bones Barn Into an Off-Grid Cabin Barlis Wedlick Architects blend old and new to create a solar-powered getaway for friends, family—and the homeowners themselves,...
Before & After: A Kandinsky Print Inspires a Seattle Rambler’s Radiant Remodel Best Practice Architecture livens up a tired midcentury with brilliant color, a moody library, and a new deck with views for days.
Before & After: A Designer Fixes Up a Collapsing House on a Kentucky Horse Farm Natalie Officer refashions her country home with a custom mural, an experimental backsplash, and cozy living areas that welcome...
Before & After: A Next-Level Revamp Elevates a Three-Story Hillside “Cabin” 35th Collective stitches up the plan of a Bay Area midcentury while sticking to its palette of wood, cork, and stone.
Before & After: Just-Right Furnishings and a Few Shades of Paint Punch Up a Brooklyn Brownstone A young family’s furniture didn’t fit in their new home, so Studio Nato designed custom cabinetry and sourced sofas, lighting,...