A New Counter Culture: Ideas for Kitchen and Bath Renovations

We offer renovation inspiration, expert recommendations, the climate case for giving up your gas stove, and more.

Designed by architects Luis Beltran del Río and Andrew Sosa of local firm Vrtical, the live/work residence uses simple materials to define volumes and courtyards.

As our audience regularly reminds us, the kitchen and bathroom are the most frequently renovated rooms in the house.

The leader of London studio Fine & Able shares how he imagines spaces for diverse body types—and anyone wanting a lifelong home free of “design...

Cities across the country are banning natural gas in new homes.

Check out these varying approaches—from a London kitchen’s pitched-timber ceiling to an all-in-one island tucked neatly into a Chilean A-frame.

Architect Alessandro Ronfini of Demo Architects designs an award-winning passive house using a prefab-panel structure cloaked in dark Galvalume.

You’ve probably sat in one of his office chairs, but his revamped Toronto residence is more about art than ergonomics.

A nod to the past, the contemporary country escape by Mapa Architects is surprisingly close to São Paulo’s hustle and bustle.

Located in an outlying village three hours north of Berlin, the remote property—which until recently lacked potable water—was transformed by architects Sierra Boaz Cobb and...

As two ex–New Yorkers reimagine their lives in Mérida, they band together with a local team to create an unexpected residence.

The friends scoured Facebook Marketplace and local salvage centers—locating such treasures as decades-old Douglas fir flooring from a decommissioned munitions plant—to remake the...

Texas-based artist and designer Rachel Farrington was inspired by the rocky ground, prairie grass, sandstone, and bright open skies of the Southwestern U.S.—where she and her...

The founder of Brooklyn catering company Day Into Night tells us why she’s always reaching for her grandmother’s serving spoon.