Simple Modern Ideas: Clever Ways to Spruce Up Your Kitchen or Bathroom

Dwell editor-in-chief Amanda Dameron talks us through Dwell's April 2015 issue.

Can’t stand wasted heat in the

Considering taking the induction cooking plunge? We've broken down how it works in four steps.

The great-grandsons of the founders of German appliance company Miele are in it for the long haul.

Historic details and modern interventions commune in two bathrooms in a renovated West Village townhouse.

A prefabricated floating home drops anchor in the Pacific Northwest.

In Auckland, New Zealand, an architect cleverly uses roof supports and surplus soil to define space, both inside and out.

A modern home in Finland revolves around three pillars of traditional family life: the kitchen, the fireplace, and the sauna.

Playfully flouting convention, an American-born architect creates a deceptively spacious home for herself in a tiny London apartment.

A man and his wife make an emotional return to an apartment building he loved as a kid.

Drawing on family lore and the vernacular of a venerable neighborhood, an architect creates a comfortable, adaptable home for his family.

A couple bring cohesion to an architectural mishmash in San Francisco.

A creative couple flips the script on their family home, a former workman’s cottage on the northern edge of Brooklyn.

The skilled furniture designer and craftsman called on his grandchildren to help form the abstract tile patterns in the sunken bath area.