Color in a North-Facing Room
North light is steady, cool and unflattering to about half the paint colors ever sold. Here is how to choose for it instead of fighting it.
Why Your White Paint Looks Wrong
Almost every disappointing paint job is an undertone problem, and almost all of it is preventable with three large samples and a week of patience.
Planning a Kitchen Two People Can Actually Cook In
The classic work triangle assumes one cook. If two of you use the kitchen at once, you need overlapping zones, wider clearances and a different plan entirely.
Small Spaces: What Actually Works
Mirrors and pale paint are the advice everyone gives and neither does much. Here is what genuinely makes a compact room live larger.
Inside the Los Feliz Renovation
The clients asked for an open plan. We took down exactly one wall, and the house they got is bigger than the one they asked for.
Materials That Age Well
Specify for year ten rather than day one, and a surprising number of the materials that photograph worst on handover day turn out to be the right choice.
The Lighting Trend Worth Following
Fewer fixtures, placed lower, switched separately. The most useful shift in residential lighting in a decade is a subtraction rather than an addition.
What a Guesthouse Refit Taught Us
Fourteen rooms, sixteen weeks, a fixed reopening date and a building four hundred yards from salt water. The constraints wrote most of the design.
The Renovation Budget Nobody Plans For
Where the money actually goes in a home renovation, which line items get underestimated every single time, and what a realistic contingency looks like.
Quiet Color Is Back
After a decade of gray and greige, the palette has moved toward complex, slightly muddy colors with real pigment in them. Here is how to use one without repainting in a year.
A New Workshop and Two Hires
We have taken a second unit for a samples and prototyping workshop, brought two people into the technical team, and opened our detailing seminar to the public.