Renovation

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.

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.

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.

Fourteen rooms, sixteen weeks, a fixed reopening date and a building four hundred yards from salt water. The constraints wrote most of the design.

Where the money actually goes in a home renovation, which line items get underestimated every single time, and what a realistic contingency looks like.