How to Prepare Your Bathroom for Overnight Guests When getting ready to host overnight guests, we tend to focus on washing the bedding, jazzing up the spare room and fully...
How Much Could You Do with 270 Square Feet? Taking its lead from a Swedish building code, a new book proposes ingenious concepts that can fit in 270 square feet.
How to Choose the Right Material For Every Surface of Your Home With a variety of surfaces built for any purpose, including facades, flooring, and countertops, Neolith provides high quality,...
The Design Life: How Do the Dwell 24 See the World? We surveyed our designers to find out—the results may surprise you.
A Professor and Designer Tests a New Hybrid Material on His Miami Beach Home Using his Miami Beach home as a laboratory, professor and designer Nick Gelpi tests a material that recasts concrete’s tough...
How One Family of Three Does It All in 675 Square Feet A growing family in Brooklyn downsizes their living space while expanding their collective quality of life.
10 Warm Wood Floors Timeless, hardwearing, textured, and warm—the benefits of implementing wooden floors into your home are endless.
Material Spotlight: 11 Hardworking Uses of Western Red Cedar Durable, long-lasting, and insect-resistant, Western red cedar has been a building material of choice for generations.
How to Pitch Dwell Here are the stories our editors are hunting for, and how to get in touch.
11 Examples of How to Incorporate Traditional Building Materials Into Your Modern Home Cement tiles, terrazzo, and exposed shiplap boards are just a few traditional building materials that are experiencing a...
Revitalize Your Bathroom With 18 Products That (Almost) Do the Work for You Looking for the best products to organize and spruce up your space this spring? We’ve got you covered with our top picks for...
A Holiday Home in Hokkaido Echoes the Textures and Topography of Nature A Japanese architect blurs the edges between shelter and site in a summer retreat enveloped by woodland.
A Concrete Guesthouse in Upstate New York Is Decidedly “Bunker Chic” With inspiration from the creative homeowners, architects David Leven and Stella Betts design a bunker-like backyard structure...
A Tattered Brooklyn Brownstone Is Brought Back to Life With Big Doses of Color Michael K. Chen Architecture resuscitates a Clinton Hill residence by restoring its historic details and applying bold hues...
A Black Gable Farmhouse Harvests its Own Electricity, Heat, and Water Built of prefabricated cross-laminated timber panels, this barn-inspired home blends into the rural landscape.
A Two-Unit ADU in Los Angeles Offers Inspired Spaces for Creative Tenants Architect Max Kuo transforms a back house and garage into a white-gabled duplex for a diverse mix of residents.
Before & After: A Design Duo Give Themselves Free Rein to Experiment With Their Portland Bungalow Lara White and Jason Stamp of Workaday Design infuse their 1922 house with plenty of personality.
Near Amsterdam, a Couple Turn the Top of a Former Chapel Into Their Home and Studio Textile designer Milla Novo and her husband move into a converted monastery, uncovering religious frescoes in the renovation...
In London, an Old Victorian Becomes a Wonderland of Colored Concrete Studio Ben Allen uses prefab elements to transform a dated Victorian in just four days.
An 18th-Century Portuguese Home Morphs Into a Series of Colorful Apartments Each unit is layered with a mix of eye-catching details, including patterned mosaics and a moody mermaid painting on the bathroom...
This Beach House in Australia Is Nothing Like Its Neighbors—or Any Beach House You’ve Seen Though it’d be hard to tell from the street, the compound of concrete blocks forms a surprisingly breezy family retreat.
Humble Materials Get an Elevated Treatment in a ’70s-Inspired Home in Cape Town For his longtime friends, architect Michael Lumby works magic by investing in craftsmanship over expensive finishing and...
Expanses of Glass and Broad Trellises Bring Clarity to a Renovated Home in San Francisco Architect Anne Fougeron softens and brightens a ’60s-era residence, adding a new glass pavilion.
This “Upside-Down” House in Melbourne Shifts Shape to Accommodate a Family of Seven On a narrow lot in suburban Australia, Cloud Architecture designs a family home with built-in flexibility.
A Pair of Filmmakers Give Their San Francisco Edwardian a Sensuous Edit Returning to the Presidio after two decades in New York, an auteur couple and their young daughters work with Geremia Design to...
This Eco-Friendly Home Wears the South African Bush as Camouflage Sunken in the earth and topped with native grass, this low-slung concrete home lets the landscape rule.
Delightful Curves Abound in This Revamped Cottage in Sydney Carter Williamson Architects preserves the heritage facade of a 100-year-old dwelling in Annandale while imbuing the interiors...
A São Paulo Home Welcomes Guests With an Invitingly Breezy Brutalism The residence merges two Brazilian architectural styles with distinctly casual and formal spaces.
It’s Time to Prune Your Houseplants: Here’s How the Experts Do It Bloomscape’s resident “Plant Mom,” AKA horticulturalist Joyce Mast, gives us the scoop on how to prep your plant buddies for...
Ask an Expert: How Do I Make My Home More Energy-Efficient? Three eco-conscious designers share simple ways to boost your home's energy efficiency.
Bringing Back a Forgotten Material We’re all familiar with iconic furniture pieces made of fiberglass that were brought to market in the midcentury era—most notably...
How to Build an Affordable America There are as many solutions to the country’s housing crisis as there are causes. We need them all.
How to Build an Outdoor Shower There's still enough time this summer to do a little DIY and build an outdoor shower in your yard.
10 Ideas For the Minimalist Bathroom of Your Dreams Possibly one of the most important rooms in your home—a sleek and simple bathroom can easily be aesthetically pleasing without...
How to Build a Floating Home We spoke with architect Eric Cobb about the process behind building a floating home.
7 Bathroom Renovation Ideas to Rejuvenate Your Space Gone are the days of bathrooms simply being utilitarian spaces.