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Why Do Homes These Days Have So Much Recessed Lighting?

Why Do Homes These Days Have So Much Recessed Lighting?

Cloak Your Interiors in Darkness

Cloak Your Interiors in Darkness

Can Wayfair’s Decorating AI Help Me Reimagine My Living Room?

Can Wayfair’s Decorating AI Help Me Reimagine My Living Room?

If Your Monochromic Room Feels Flat, Here’s How to Fix It

If Your Monochromic Room Feels Flat, Here’s How to Fix It

If Your Walls Feel Too Boring, Don’t Just Repaint—Add Some Texture

If Your Walls Feel Too Boring, Don’t Just Repaint—Add Some Texture

Go Ahead, Paint the Trim!

Go Ahead, Paint the Trim!

A Guide to Shou Sugi Ban and 8 Homes Featuring the Japanese Technique

A Guide to Shou Sugi Ban and 8 Homes Featuring the Japanese Technique

We Designed and Built a Custom Headboard and WFH Station for Just $865

We Designed and Built a Custom Headboard and WFH Station for Just $865

Gardening in Extremes: How to Tend Landscapes That Flood

Gardening in Extremes: How to Tend Landscapes That Flood

How Did My Pandemic-Era DIY Bathroom Renovation Hold Up?

How Did My Pandemic-Era DIY Bathroom Renovation Hold Up?

How to Navigate Renovation Costs in the Age of Tariffs

How to Navigate Renovation Costs in the Age of Tariffs

Thinking About Hiring an ADU Builder? Read This First

Thinking About Hiring an ADU Builder? Read This First

How Facebook Marketplace Became Ubiquitous, Essential, and Unhelpful

How Facebook Marketplace Became Ubiquitous, Essential, and Unhelpful

Ask an Expert: A Guide for Choosing the Right Windows and Doors With Your Builder

Ask an Expert: A Guide for Choosing the Right Windows and Doors With Your Builder

A 10-Minute Action Plan for Flood-Prepping Your Basement Living Room

A 10-Minute Action Plan for Flood-Prepping Your Basement Living Room

If You Can’t Commit to a Table, a Set of Hairpin Legs Will Set You Free

If You Can’t Commit to a Table, a Set of Hairpin Legs Will Set You Free

When Did It Become So Hard to Buy Light Bulbs?

When Did It Become So Hard to Buy Light Bulbs?

Do You Really Need a Junk Drawer?

Do You Really Need a Junk Drawer?

You Don’t Have to Be a Designer to Dream Up Your Own Custom Furniture

You Don’t Have to Be a Designer to Dream Up Your Own Custom Furniture

My 2025 DIY Resolution Is to Do the Little Things Myself

My 2025 DIY Resolution Is to Do the Little Things Myself

My 2024 DIY Success Is Hacking the “Status” Bookshelf Dupe of My Dreams

My 2024 DIY Success Is Hacking the “Status” Bookshelf Dupe of My Dreams

My 2024 DIY Fail Was a Fence Meant to Keep a Bevy of Animals From Ravaging My Garden

My 2024 DIY Fail Was a Fence Meant to Keep a Bevy of Animals From Ravaging My Garden

My 2024 DIY Backyard Wedding Inspired a Backyard Refresh

My 2024 DIY Backyard Wedding Inspired a Backyard Refresh

My 2025 DIY Resolution Is to Create the Storage Room of My Dreams

My 2025 DIY Resolution Is to Create the Storage Room of My Dreams

My 2025 DIY Dream Is to Build a (Better) Rack for All My Surfboards

My 2025 DIY Dream Is to Build a (Better) Rack for All My Surfboards

My DIY Outdoor Shower Cost $1,000 and Makes Me Feel Like a Million Bucks—Year-Round

My DIY Outdoor Shower Cost $1,000 and Makes Me Feel Like a Million Bucks—Year-Round

Why Do House Flippers Love Open Shelving?

Why Do House Flippers Love Open Shelving?

He Renovated His Own House, and Lived to Regret It

He Renovated His Own House, and Lived to Regret It

Where Do You Poop When You Live In a Van?

Where Do You Poop When You Live In a Van?

Hate That Vacant Lot in Your Neighborhood? Turn It Into Something Great

Hate That Vacant Lot in Your Neighborhood? Turn It Into Something Great

Now’s the Perfect Time to Do a Temperature Check on Your HVAC

Now’s the Perfect Time to Do a Temperature Check on Your HVAC

My Furniture Designer-Dealer Is the Unsung Hero of My Renovation

My Furniture Designer-Dealer Is the Unsung Hero of My Renovation

We Asked the Experts If Custom Kitchen Cabinets Are Actually Worth It

We Asked the Experts If Custom Kitchen Cabinets Are Actually Worth It

Paint Your House Anything But White: Kitchen Edition

Paint Your House Anything But White: Kitchen Edition

Is Your Tiny House Really a Tiny House?

Is Your Tiny House Really a Tiny House?

Everyone Loves a Good Ikea Hack: These 3 Classic Pieces Show Why

Everyone Loves a Good Ikea Hack: These 3 Classic Pieces Show Why

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