How to Have Fun With Your Kitchen Remodel

  After spending hard-earned money to remodel your kitchen, the last thing you want is to walk into your new space and feel … nothing....

Four Well-Designed Breakfast Nooks

  How you start your day can have an enormous effect on the successfulness of the rest of it. And a dedicated breakfast nook is a great ...

Mini Kitchen Cookbook Library

  I made my daughter and her friend pancakes from scratch recently, using a dilapidated copy of The Joy of Cooking. My grandmother bought it ...

How to Choose the Right Microwave

  Microwaves can be tricky for a kitchen designer. They aren't the belles of the ball nor the cutting-edge appliance du jour. Yet most p...

Family Style Kitchen

  This handsome 1890s Melrose Victorian had seen an early 1980s kitchen renovation. “A bad one,” says Kathy Marshall, the Wenh...

Modern Marvel

  There are fixer-uppers, and then there are lost causes. When Nora and Alexander Falk purchased—or more aptly, rescued—thei...

Kitchen Design Challenge

When Jennifer Brennan’s family bought their fixer-upper 1875 Victorian in Melrose, in December 2014, they could tell right away the kitchen wou...

CM Ragusa Bold Builder

A client of CM Ragusa Builders had a bold vision for a large, semicircular room in his home overlooking a tidal estuary: Seven-foot-tall windows that ...

Wilson Kelsey Design

Taking over an interior design project when the renovation has already begun presents a unique set of challenges. Sally Wilson, ASID, of Wilson Kelse...

Heartwood Kitchens Room to Cook

Lisa Scarfi and Wayne Saltsman were so used to their Burlington, Massachusetts, kitchen feeling too small that they assumed their planned remodel woul...