Megan Baker

When you don’t have a ton of outdoor space, you need to make what you have work. For Jennifer Grammer of @jennifer_grammer_designs, the issue wasn’t necessarily that she had a small backyard—but since most of it is wooded, only a small space remained to create a hangout zone. And, she says, “right outside the back door you found this wasteland. It stayed a red mud pit the majority of the time and with dogs and a young son not a great combination.

Old houses come with a lot of charm—and a lot of head-scratching spaces, too. At Briana Jones’s (@brianarosejones) 1922 bungalow, there was a space at the top of the stairs that she really didn’t know what to do with. It wasn’t big enough to turn into a room, but it was bigger than a hallway—it was an awkward amount of space that was tough to fill.

When it comes to living spaces, it’s not enough to be functional—it’s important to be comfortable, too. The same goes for outdoor spaces, as Asa Davis (@designbuildbyasa) found in his Washington, D.C. home’s backyard. “My outdoor space consisted of a patio area with aqua blue benches and a wood fire…

For many people, patios are an extension of their homes—an outdoor room where they can spend time with family or unwind at the end of the day. But sometimes, even though the space is used like an extension of the home, it doesn’t exactly look like one. Marilyn Jonckheere’s patio is a good example: W…

When it comes to making a big impression for not a lot of money (or time!) it’s hard to beat the transformative power of paint. But while painting a room is an easy project, there’s one part of the process that can have even experienced DIYers second-guessing themselves: choosing the paint!

Sometimes it takes a couple phases of renovations to create a space you really love. That was the case for Gisele Blaker and her kitchen. When she and her family moved in, the teeny tiny kitchen was filled with both upper and lower cabinets in a creamy white, distressed finish. While the base cabinets had pretty simple panels on the doors, the top ones were a little more detailed, with cathedral insets that didn’t mesh with Gisele’s preferred style.

At the start of 2020, I had what I thought amounted to a pretty good work-from-home setup: a small desk with a couple of shelves, plus an accent chair that was padded enough to serve me on the occasional days when I felt too under-the-weather to make it into the office, or wanted to wrap up any stories in my off hours. Then, of course, occasional work-from-home days became work-from-home weeks became work-from-home months.

At the start of 2020, I had what I thought amounted to a pretty good work-from-home setup: a small desk with a couple of shelves, plus an accent chair that was padded enough to serve me on the occasional days when I felt too under-the-weather to make it into the office, or wanted to wrap up any stor…

I spent most of my adult years living in a small New York City apartment, so moving out of state a couple years ago and into a house that has an actual yard has been an exciting new adventure for me. While some parts of having a yard are equal parts exhausting and soul crushing (ahem, raking leaves)…

It’s here, it’s here! September brings with it a slew of Color of the Year announcements in advance of the New Year, and today’s comes from Behr. For 2023, Behr just announced that its Color of the Year is Blank Canvas (DC-003), an off-white with complex undertones of brown and gray to make it a tru…