All the fun of before-and-after home transformations is seeing how drastically different a space can look over the span of a few days, weeks, or months. Even more satisfying is when you’ve dressed up those walls, muscled in the furniture, and gotten your hands dirty...
Swedish powerhouse IKEA is entering the resale game with the launch of IKEA Preowned, an online peer-to-peer marketplace where users can buy and sell products through the furniture manufacturer. The move is part of the company’s ongoing sustainability efforts and its pledge to “ensure all...
What do you do when the city zoning commission gets in the way of building the office of your dreams? If you’re AD100 designer Sarah Sherman Samuel, you follow through with your signature flair anyways. She and her husband Rupert bought this 1920s Tudor-style home...
Not only do they look striking—as proven by the 15 vertical garden ideas below—living walls can actually make you healthier, both physically and mentally. Research has shown that air-purifying green walls in office spaces have improved workers’ skin quality and boosted immune systems. Additionally, exposure...
There’s a certain joy derived from picking out a truly next-level kid-friendly wallpaper print, bassinet, or mobile—which any parent feverishly googling nursery ideas (and the decor that goes with) can attest to. These days, there are a dizzying number of options for designing a child’s...
Whether you’re tackling a small entryway, or a long, winding space, you’ll need some hallway decor ideas that pop to help the passage feel significant. “It creates personality in a space that’s often ignored or under-decorated,” says Vani Sayeed, the founder of Vani Sayeed Studios...
Not much is as satisfying as closing the final page of a good book. Actually, returning said tome to gorgeous built-in bookshelves certainly enhances that high. Particularly if you then trace your finger along the bindings of more books, perched enticingly so in a row,...
Wondering how to grout tile correctly? It’s a fair question, given the task is seen by many as a challenge juuust beyond their DIY abilities. But with a bit of confidence, a little patience, and a lot of expert input—which we’ve rounded up here—you’ll be...
“My preference is for the rod to not overshadow the drapes,” Hodges says. “I like a delicate 3/4-inch rod with horizontal middle brackets, if possible.” Berk agrees that the curtain rod should be simple, since anything overly decorative tends to look too fussy. One way to...
With highly textured ceilings, you’ll need to install furring strips to your ceiling and then attach the paneling to the strips to avoid an uneven look. Note that with this method, you will need to remove small sections of the popcorn texture in order to...