Articles by Becky Harris

This couple, parents of an infant and with another child on the way, were living in a 1,000-square-foot house in Austin, Texas, that was bursting at the seams. During the early stages of an addition design, architect Sharon George walked through the …

This Canadian family’s main residence in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is very modern. In order to make it that way, they had looked to Houzz for an interior designer, found Andrea Rodman and hired her to give it that style. But for…

In this small bathroom, more is more. The Portland, Oregon, space measures only about 40 square feet, but the woman who uses it didn’t let that stop her from going big and bold with style. “Our client wanted the bathroom to be happy, fun, beautiful an…

“The beauty of this condo was that it had 14-foot ceilings. The challenge was that it was chopped up, making for some unusual proportions,” interior designer Lisa Tharp says. The home is in a former university building in the heart of Boston that had …

This Trending Now story features the most-saved laundry room photos uploaded to Houzz between December 15, 2023, and March 15, 2024.Mixing utility and style in a laundry room is the goal for many homeowners. And this countdown of the most-saved laundr…

This Indianapolis couple had experience in historic preservation and restoration from renovating their historic home. And as they and their two daughters outgrew it, they were game to do it again. After looking for about a year, they discovered a 1926…

This Indianapolis couple had experience in historic preservation and restoration from renovating their historic home. And as they and their two daughters outgrew it, they were game to do it again. After looking for about a year, they discovered a 1926…

When this small cottage adjacent to their bungalow in Boulder, Colorado, came on the market, the homeowners jumped at the opportunity to expand their property. With two athletic young sons and a dog, the property gave them a chance to expand their yar…

“This client has fallen in love with the renovation process — we’ve worked through most of her house at this point,” contractor Thomas Murdock says. The homeowner, a retired woman, was looking to upgrade the finishes and freshen up her approximately …

Choosing an off-white paint seems like it should be easy enough, but it can be tricky. Light sources, time of day and amount of natural light all affect the appearance of paint in different rooms. And undertones in the paint can skew toward other colo…