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The von Watts family, while very excited about their pregnancy news, felt a little overwhelmed by the changes their home needed before baby’s arrival. They turned to Caileen Uznis, a designer whose son goes to school with their oldest son, to help them design a nursery and rearrange their home. In less…

It’s not often you hear of a family with a young child taking on the tiny-house lifestyle. But Micah and Jana Whitehead had been dreaming of living in a tiny home for years, and learning they were expecting a child…

Raise your hand if you’re guilty of keeping thousands of photos on your phone that you know you’ll realistically never use or look back on. Is your hand up? If not, your self-discipline is unrivaled. But I believe the more likely case is that you have thousands of photos to sift through.…

When I set out to clean the junk drawers in my house, I expected to spend 30 minutes or so per drawer, dumping out the junk and organizing it into the neat little boxes I bought at The Container Store and Office Depot. But there’s a lot I didn’t expect.
For example, I didn’t think it would be…

The world’s favorite flower has a surprisingly humble start in its bare-root form, consisting of a mass of roots and three to five green stems covered in thorns. From bare root to bloom, it’s hard to believe the startling transformation that takes place within a few weeks after the rose is planted in…

“There’s a real interest today in natural materials, especially reclaimed wood,” designer Linda Engler says. “In this home, we used reclaimed wood in a compelling way, by pairing it with crisp, refined architecture. Put another way, we paired sophisticated bones with crude materials to create a tension…

This Minnesota couple had already enlisted designer Lisa Antenucci to renovate their kitchen with happy results, so when it was time to revamp the master suite, tucked beneath the attic eaves, they knew who to call. “They like the minimal aesthetic and wanted the whole area to feel serene and spa-like,”…