Home Offices
Home Office Ideas for a Room That Has to Be Something Else Too
Almost nobody redecorating a home office is starting from an empty room. The desk has to go somewhere…
Interiors
Ideas and inspiration for every room in the house, from bedrooms and living rooms to kitchens and bathrooms.
Home Offices
Entryways
How to Size a Console Table for a Narrow Entryway
Most console table advice leads with height and length, since those are the numbers a retailer lists first.…
Dining Rooms
How to Size a Sideboard for a Dining Room
By the time a dining table’s shape and the chairs around it are settled, most of a room’s…
Kitchens
Counter Stool Height for a Kitchen Island
Buy a set of stools before measuring the counter they’re meant to sit at, and they can land…
Bathrooms
How High to Hang a Bathroom Vanity Light
A bathroom vanity light almost always goes in after the mirror, which means its height is really the…
Bedrooms
How to Lay Out Bedroom Furniture So the Room Still Works
Most bedroom layout advice assumes a rectangular room with a full wall for the bed and enough space…
Bedrooms
Bedroom Ideas for Every Layout, Budget, and Style
A bedroom carries less daily traffic than a living room and fewer functions than a kitchen, which is…
Kitchens
Open Shelving or Closed Cabinets: Choosing for a Kitchen You Use Every Day
The real tradeoffs between open shelving and closed cabinets in a kitchen, including where mixing both works better…
Kitchens
A Kitchen Island Has to Fit the Room Before It Fits the Stools
Real clearance and footprint numbers for whether a kitchen island fits, before deciding how many stools go around…
Kitchens
12 Kitchen Ideas for a Room That Has to Work as Hard as It Looks
Twelve specific kitchen design decisions, from open shelving to a repeated metal finish, that work individually without a…
Dining Rooms
Picking a Dining Table Shape for an Odd-Shaped Room
How round, rectangular, and oval dining tables respond differently to an off-square corner, a narrow room, or an…
Bathrooms
Walk-In Shower or Tub: What Fits a Small Bathroom
The real square-footage tradeoffs between a walk-in shower and a tub, and what a tub-shower combo gives up…
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