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You have hired a landscape design pro and had an initial site meeting, during which you walked the property and discussed priorities, a budget and a project timeline. Now the pro is coming over to present your property’s concept design. Many clients d…

Since Houzz’s debut, more than 20 million photos of professionally designed homes and yards have been uploaded to the website and app, providing endless design inspiration. We wanted to know which ones readers love the most. So to mark Houzz’s 10th an…

Opposites attract, but that doesn’t always make life easy. If one of you is a neat freak and the other, well, less so, resentment can soon start to simmer. Before you know it, the wet towel on the bed, those discarded socks next to the laundry hamper …

Partway through a home restoration, the owner of this property at the foot of the Hollywood Hills turned her attention to the outdoors, hiring landscape designer Akiko Komori of Yard Maven to help transform her backyard. “The homeowner envisioned a pe…

Have you ever sat in your favorite chair and looked out the window, only to see streaks and smears? Or looked out the kitchen window, only to see a community of spiders and bugs all over your screens? Windows can be a challenge to clean. But here are …

In this episode of Houzz TV Live, interior designer Martha O’Hara takes viewers inside her Minneapolis home. O’Hara has been on Houzz for nearly a decade, and…

Looking 10 years into the past can be disorienting, which is why few of us make it a habit to pull out our high school yearbooks. The groans of “What was I thinking?” can overwhelm the senses. But sometimes you see something from long ago that still f…

Even in mild climates, most of us get far more use from our outdoor furniture in the spring and summer than in chillier times of year. You can extend the use of your patio furniture and outdoor rooms into the colder months with a few practical tips, i…