When we were renovating the bathroom, just as my marble-tub vision was starting to come to life we hit a snag with the tile that could ha...

A counter-depth refrigerator, via Bosch You'll often hear it said that appliances come in standard sizes, but there's a great deal o...

An early SketchUp of my kitchen plan As your kitchen plan comes together and you start speaking with vendors and interviewing contracto...

Photo: RedFin.com Several years ago a listing for a 900 sq ft two-bedroom in our neighborhood caught my eye. Back in September of that ...

When the design for our bathroom renovation was just a gleam in my iPad but I was starting to investigate marble for the tub surround,...

Via Pixy Liao / Sweeten      One nail-biting phase of this renovation happened in the planning phases, when I learned my go-to contracto...

The project is winding down and so is the punch list. Meanwhile, I've been keeping busy with small tasks. Something weighing on me h...

If you've been following our renovation, we've been stalled in the home stretch for some time, waiting on the lighting over the si...

The plumber was coming to do all the hookups, and I still hadn't found a drinking faucet that matched the shape and finish of our ...

Some elements in this kitchen design have to be just right, and integrating the paneled refrigerator is one. The kitchen will be open to t...

Designing this kitchen for maximum functionality and efficient use of space, I specced drawers in ALL the base cabinets. The utility, func...

And we have pantries, and moldings, and toe kicks today! I never know exactly what I’ll see when I get home after work each night this we...

And we have doors! Things are really coming together now. The sink has been repositioned and fixes made to the length of the sink run. ...

More renovation drama! We had a moment yesterday morning when the carpenter said he thought the fridge couldn’t be flush. I was about to ...

This weekend I chose my marble slabs — the ones I'm standing in front of here are mine. When you're renovating a kitchen you have...

Today was a tough day on the renovation front. I discovered the sink run was longer than I'd specified in the design. How did this ha...

—Original old world plaster walls— When we got the bids on this job, one area where they varied was in the treatment of the walls, and ...

IKEA outsources their delivery needs to a company called XPO Logistics, and that's a terrible business mistake for a company that pri...

  I woke up early with the nagging worry that we probably forgot to put outlets back on the living room side of the wall that we’d torn d...

Aleks texted from a flooring store where he’s picking up red oak slats for the section of floor that used to be the galley kitchen but ...