Willow and Hearth

The lowest bid on a renovation project is tempting for an obvious reason: it saves money up front. But contractor pricing usually reflects something real — experience, insurance, quality of […]

Remodels are supposed to make a home work better, but it’s surprisingly common for a beautiful, expensive renovation to leave a house harder to actually live in than it was […]

Once a wall is open, there’s no going back to “maybe we shouldn’t have done this.” Whatever is behind that drywall — old wiring, a load-bearing beam, a plumbing line […]

Renovation budgets rarely blow up because of one huge, dramatic mistake. More often, they get eaten alive by a string of smaller decisions that sound reasonable in the moment but […]

Few renovation projects start from a more dramatic starting point, and @cozyinchicago_ takes on exactly that challenge in a multi-part Instagram series documenting the extensive process of turning an old, […]

Some renovation content earns its sequel through genuine audience demand, and @dannywangdesign delivers exactly that with another full before-and-after small bathroom transformation, responding directly to fans who wanted to see […]

Split-level homes rarely get the design spotlight, which makes @devleathers’s home tour especially worth paying attention to, contrasting a split-level house’s classic, recognizable exterior architecture with its thoroughly updated, modern […]

Removing a bedroom closet to gain a little extra floor space or create room for a built-in headboard nook seems like a simple, low-risk renovation. In reality, it touches on […]

House flipping has become such a polished, professionalized business that many flipped homes now look nearly indistinguishable from custom new construction, at least on the surface. Gleaming countertops, fresh paint, […]

photo credit: instagram A house flipper walks through a cluttered, dated property he bought, then cuts to the fully renovated, staged version after spending $63,000 on the flip. The reel […]