#home-renovation

#home-renovation

When we saw this home - with its east-west exposures and windows that could be seen on both sides - we were immediately sold. It was the third house we looked at, and we were so lucky the owner accepted our offer. It was a very competitive moment for home sales in the neighborhood, and the fact we were able to make it happen felt like a dream.

"We're having to cut off projects that we really want to do," said Cox, who lives with his wife in Charleston, South Carolina.

"We bought it for $650,000," LaMonica says of the house. "Of course, we could never afford to buy it now."

Energy-efficient appliances are designed to reduce energy consumption, reduce their impact on the environment, and reduce your utility bills. Old, outdated, and inefficient appliances draw more power than they need or run longer to achieve effective results.

The Matranga family built a 560-square-foot tiny house for their family of four in 2022, experiencing both love and regret about its design after four years of living there.

Before it became a calm, light-filled family home, this 1930s house in Harold's Cross was the kind of place you might have easily overlooked.

To heat the home, I wanted hydronic floor heating. This is a system that uses warm water in PEX to heat the home. However, hydronic systems are uncommon which makes it difficult to find an installer. I managed to get one quote and it was about $120,000. No thanks! I decided to take on the project myself. It took an immense amount of planning and a lot of labor, but I got it done for about $18,000.

Kelce is simply replacing "9 windows and 6 doors" at her two-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Orlando. The breathlessness with which TMZ reported the news echoed across X, where people responded to the story with perhaps even more fervor than when Kelce's son Travis and Taylor Swift announced their engagement.

Set on nearly a quarter of an acre, the remodeled Spanish-style home has a Hollywood pedigree that includes prolific producer Frank Konigsberg and, before him, playwright John Wexley of "The Last Mile" fame. Berkus and Brent bought the property in 2015 for $2.36 million, records show.

I believe in reusing and preserving anything you can. Why throw out beautiful windows and replace them with ugly vinyl? The long windows that open onto the frontyard from the living room and master bedroom retain their thick, leaded glass. And built-in drawers and shelves throughout the house have been smartly incorporated in the home's reconfigured open floor plan.

Updated for modern living, this remodeled home in Highland Park has stayed true to its 1930s Spanish Revival beginnings. The open living and dining room features a brick fireplace and the original hardwood floors. A courtyard sits off the master bedroom.

There wasn't anything particularly inviting to the eye. It was a de facto pool house and held most of our storage. Things just started to spill out, the pingpong table was covered with clothes and boxes, the fake Christmas tree was sitting in front of a bookshelf. What was once a sanctuary became a way station. We needed some help.

I don't think we slept for two months straight. But, you know, we made it work. They knocked down walls, changed layouts, installed a wall-length, accordion-style glass door, all to transform a once-congested design within the modern Spanish-style home into a wide, open-concept living space.

"Other than central air being added at some point along the way, this room appears to have not been touched for quite some time," Brielle says. But, of course, old homes come with their quirks. "It has slanted ceilings, uneven floors, picture rail crown molding, attic door access, holes in the walls, and peeling windows," she says. Still, Brielle "immediately fell in love with all of its character and could not wait to transform it into [her] sanctuary."

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Raising the roof is a major structural change, but for some homeowners, it can be a practical way to gain space and modernize a home without relocating. Whether the goal is higher ceilings, an added level, or turning unused attic space into livable square footage, the idea to raise a roof on a house often comes up when a home no longer fits everyday needs.

When Mandy Moore re-renovated her Altadena home last year, she and her husband Taylor Goldsmith inevitably tapped AD100 talent Sarah Sherman Samuel: the actor's longtime designer who also worked on the couple's midcentury home in 2018. True to her signature flair for whimsy, Samuel brought in lots of playful elements featuring warm colors, bright patterns, and contemporary silhouettes. Blessedly for us, many of these are also readily available through the designer's collection with retailer Lulu and Georgia.

A carpenter slid a newspaper between the floorboards during a home renovation in the 1940s - then a common fix for uneven planks. About 80 years later, another renovation at the home in Fargo, North Dakota, revealed the brittle pages, still wedged beneath the wood. At first, the discovery seemed unremarkable. "They used to do this back in the day," said Vincent Vincent, the contractor who pulled up the boards last month. "I find many things like this."

There's a point in all my renovations that I look around and think, "What have I done?" - and I have to be honest that after the crew tore through the front room of the 1883 shotgun-style house my husband and I lovingly dubbed Cherry Pop, there was a real moment of oh noooooo. With wood-paneled walls (painted purple and putrid green), a drop ceiling with a 1980s ceiling fan, and stick-on faux parquet flooring,

She's set to call Thrushcross Grange home in the upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, but Margot Robbie's IRL coastal California home (and Australian getaway!) is just as breathtaking as the two grand homes featured in Emily Brontë's classic novel. The Australian-born actress now lives full-time in Southern California, and within the past decade, she has bought and renovated three homes with her husband, Tom Ackerley, in the Venice and Los Angeles area. Below, a full look at all the homes that 35-year-old Robbie has owned since her rise to international fame in the early 2010s.

Picture this: you're knee-deep in renovation dust, crowbar in hand, when something unexpected tumbles from behind century-old plaster. A yellowed envelope? A strange metal box? That moment when your heart skips because you realize you might have just found something extraordinary. For some lucky homeowners, these discoveries turn out to be worth thousands of dollars, transforming a simple home improvement project into an unexpected treasure hunt.