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As one architect discovered after a failed relationship, the best way forward is sometimes getting rid of most of what you own. When Lindsay Weiss began renovating her home on [...]

The one-bedroom cottage on Shelter Island was perfect for one person. For a family? Not so much. In 2013, when Nick Gavin was still a bachelor, he found a one-bedroom, [...]

Byline: Michele Lerner In 2010, Vanessa Piala and her husband Jim Belikove modified their home near Chevy Chase, Md., by digging out the basement and adding an in-law suite in [...]

Byline: DAVE LeBLANC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Unless one is in a forest, with dappled sunlight dancing at one's feet, birdsong tickling the eardrums and [...]

Byline: SIMON LEWSEN, Special to The Globe and Mail EDMONTON -- Lead In the dining room of Jason Bykewich's childhood home, his parents had a black-and-red candelabra with a fiddlehead [...]

Byline: TIFFANY MONGU, Special to The Globe and Mail STRATFORD, ONT. -- Lead Robert Lemon's house stands out, and he knows it. 'It's not at all a typical house,' the [...]

Byline: GAYLE MACDONALD, Staff Lead The first thing Toronto interior designer and visual artist Joanne Swisterski asked herself when she signed the lease for her 1,400square-foot apartment was, 'How am [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND, Staff TORONTO -- Lead At first glance, the diminutive red house in Toronto's East Chinatown appeared dark and cramped and in need of TLC. But architects Winda [...]

Byline: Matthew Hague, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead A major thrill of any home reno is often when the first sledgehammer crashes through a wall, breaking whatever is [...]

As a child in Austin, Texas, he admired the house from afar. As an adult, he made it his own. Even as a child, Joe Malina admired the midcentury-modern house [...]

Byline: GAYLE MACDONALD, Staff Lead As a real estate agent in Toronto for the past 23 years, Paul Maranger has seen every type of house imaginable - the good and [...]

Time to decide if you want to renovate for a new lifestyle, rent out the extra space, or upgrade so you can host the next generation. After the hectic years [...]

New Yorkers have developed some of the best tricks for entertaining in a small space. For New Yorkers, the holiday season is often an exercise in squeezing 20 friends and [...]

After falling for the bright azure sky, craggy mountains and Rat Pack lore of Palm Springs, Calif., in the 1990s, Clive Wilkinson finally bought an empty lot there in 2009, [...]

The 1823 church was untouched by time -- maybe a little too untouched. And solving the plumbing problem wasn't going to be easy. The first time Matthew Bremer saw the [...]

Byline: Jura Koncius Your laundry area, whether it's a tiny closet or a corner of the basement, can actually be a happy place. In a recent Washington project, Jessica Centella [...]

When Daniel Heighes Wismer and Travis Wismer began looking for a weekend house in Sharon, Conn., as an escape from their weekday lives in Manhattan, they ruled out many homes [...]

Byline: Andria Cheng, Special to USA TODAY Michael Lam, a real estate agent from Queens, New York, says the $200 to $300 he spent on garden mulch and plants was [...]

Like many architects, Aurora Farewell relishes stripping spaces down to the studs, and rebuilding from scratch. ''I have an obsession with change,'' said Ms. Farewell, 36, a Yale-trained architect who [...]

Byline: KRISTINA LJUBANOVIC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Eric Pellerin and husband, Denis Aubrey, had a few dollars to invest when they relocated to Ottawa from Toronto in [...]

Byline: MATTHEW HAGUE; Special to The Globe and Mail MONTREAL -- Miguel Cobo and Guylaine Thibault's Arts and Crafts-style semi, in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, was originally built around 1930. But [...]

Byline: Aimee Picchi, Special to USA TODAY The thrill of homebuying can turn into a letdown after the closing - especially if the house doesn't look exactly how you remembered [...]

For most couples, attempting a gut renovation of a historic home in a matter of months -- while expecting twins -- is a surefire recipe for disaster. But for Stefanie [...]

Byline: Helen Carefoot When interior designer Kyra Williams lived in Paris, she was always happy to see her fellow city dwellers perched on their balconies, enjoying coffee with friends. 'If [...]

This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. I would like to install [...]

Like so many stories of creative inspiration, this one began with a shower. A broken shower, actually. Several years ago, a couple in Portland, Ore., decided it was about time [...]

This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. I'm buying the unit above [...]

Take a look inside any restored prewar apartment, and it's not hard to see the appeal. Spacious layouts with soaring ceilings, intricate parquet floors, and delicate wall and ceiling moldings [...]

Name: Salehe BemburyAge: 32Hometown: ManhattanNow lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.Claim to fame: Mr. Bembury is a cult designer of opulent fashion sneakers, [...]

Polished-brass pendants dangle in the walnut-paneled sunken lounge. Low-slung sectional sofas flaunt plum-colored upholstery. A flame in a cone-shaped metal fireplace ignites with a turn of a knob. The space, [...]

This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. After recently being confined to [...]

How do you make your space look its best while reflecting your personal sense of style? With a little planning, and by following the same steps used by professional interior [...]

SHELTER ISLAND is tucked inside the northeastern tip of New York's Long Island like a barnacle stuck in a lobster's claw, separated by the Peconic River from the Hamptons hamlets [...]

Byline: Megan McDonough Every summer, people flock to their local sandy shores for a little R & R. But whether you live near a beach or just dream about it, [...]

In 2016, after seven years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ian Ferguson returned to his native New York with the intention of putting down roots. A big part of [...]

Byline: DAVE LeBLANC Ten years ago, during a drive to tour the carnage in Don Mills - the original architect-designed homes in this planned 'New Town' of the early-1950s were [...]

This column is p art of a series for the Design special section of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. My kitchen has strong [...]

Most people who live through a home renovation vow never to do it again, because the process is inherently messy and disruptive. But Kevin and Hanh Livingston had the opposite [...]

Byline: Jeanne Huber Q: I am slowly refurbishing a modest, mid-1950s split-level. I want to keep as many of the original elements as possible. My latest project (and problem) is [...]

After surviving the ups and downs that inevitably come with a major renovation, you deserve a vacation. But how can you afford one after blowing your budget on the kitchen [...]

This column is the first in a series for the Design special section of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. Lately I've seen a [...]

When business partners Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski began hunting for a place to build a weekend house in the Poconos of Pennsylvania in 2006, they wanted to do more [...]

Byline: Daniel Bortz Think you're ready to tackle a home-improvement project yourself? Deciding whether you're up to the challenge or whether you should hire a professional can be tricky. Doing [...]

Painting an apartment is like going out to dinner -- you can find a hot dog wagon, put down a few bucks and get it over with, or you can [...]

Q. I am about to close on a house in New Canaan, Conn., and my move-in date is flexible. What tasks are best done while the house is still vacant? [...]

Byline: Roxana Popescu About six years ago, Chelsea Hadley left her job as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and started running a small arts foundation [...]

Making a generic rental apartment your own can be a tricky proposition, as there are strict limitations on what renters can change written into many leases. And who wants to [...]

Renovating a kitchen is never cheap. The average national cost to update a 200-square-foot kitchen, including installing new flooring, semi-custom wood cabinets and standard appliances, is roughly $62,000, according to [...]

Byline: Jonathan Fox Curb appeal matters and having a freshly manicured yard with new mulch and seasonal flowers will add a lot to the buyer's overall first impression of your [...]