Design

FixitUp Find: M. Tiexeira Soapstone

If you’re looking for singular beauty in a stone feature for a house, you’ll find it in soapstone. You’ll also find flexibility, because soapstone is…

FixitUp Find: Chelsea Decorative Metal Ceiling Tiles

When I walk into an old building, I look for a vintage “tin” ceiling, one richly detailed with patterns, filigree and style and tied into…

Danbury Creek Wainscoting

There are rooms, and then there are rooms with raised panel wainscot. Both tell a story, but it is a different tale. Wainscot adds depth,…

Designing a Pergola From the Ground Up

I’ve heard people call a pergola anything from an arbor, a colonnade, or a trellis to “one of those garden things.” But regardless of what…

Making over our Dining room

I’m surprised Boeing hasn’t called to use our air-tunnel dining room to test new products. Despite the fact that it is inches away from a…

Get Inspired: New Deck, New Door

For many homeowners, adding a deck can lead naturally to thinking about ways to connect the new outdoor living space with the inside of the…

The Master Bedroom: A storage fantasy coming true!

The desire to have a master bedroom in a home that really didn’t offer a dominant space left us with a challenge.   We aimed…

Makeover a nursery with a Murphy Bed: Small space solver

Jack’s Bedroom. You guessed it! We aren’t just renovating our house, we’re also adding on to our family. With a baby boy on the way,…

The perfect girl’s room

There are big dreams and creative requests when working with a 6-year-old ‘client.’ While she didn’t get striped walls or murals of butterflies and bumblebees,…

The Attic: Could there be more angles to deal with?

Our home’s attic has functioned as an underused, disorganized storage-only treasure-in-the-very-rough for its first 100 years. We’re taking the attic into the 21st century as…