Articles by Becky Harris

This family of four loves to cook together and entertain, but its cramped U-shaped kitchen wasn’t conducive to either. The space was cut off from other rooms in the house, hampering the way the family likes to entertain. And about half the kitchen’s s…

Working with developers, architect Charles Warren transformed an older split-level home in Washington, D.C.’s Kent neighborhood into a stunning contemporary home. “The existing house had a lot of different levels that resulted in a strange circulation…

Finding a good spot to do remote work or schoolwork around the house has never been more important. And as the hub of most busy households, the kitchen has always been a good place to set up a command central. Kitchen workstations are a convenient spo…

This former two-car garage in Studio City, California, serves a lot of functions for the grandmother who owns it thanks to help from her talented daughter, interior designer Abby Guild, and Mario and Marisela Arechiga of design-build firm New Generat…

Walking into this Victorian-era row house in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, you’d swear that the kitchen had evolved over time. However, nothing could be further from the truth. A 1980s renovation had wiped out any of its original vintage charm, an…

This family of three love their Tudor-style house and Minneapolis neighborhood, which is within walking distance of Lake Nokomis. But they knew that as their family continued to grow, they would outgrow their home. Not wanting to move, they hired Jka…

Charlotte, North Carolina, landscape designer Jay Sifford had always dreamed of a house in the North Carolina mountains, and found his dream property in a valley near West Jefferson about two years ago. The aspect he was most excited about was designi…

This special property on Northern California’s San Rafael Bay inspires its owners, musicians and composers Hilary Perkins and Jim Nunally. It was love at first sight for the couple as they wended their way through the wild and woolly gardens to reach …

Interior designer Eva LaRocque is usually involved in a project from the beginning. But in this case, a couple’s renovation was plagued with one disaster after another. After hearing about their plight, LaRocque swooped in to save the day after demoli…

Several factors influenced the renovation of this 24-year-old home outside Atlanta. First, interior designer Laura Freeman had renovated the homeowners’ master bathroom a few years earlier, and they were ready for the rest of the house to be as pretty…