Articles by Becky Harris

Does your front door celebrate the season? We’ve gathered up some of the most festive holiday front entries on Houzz for inspiration. Click the first image to enlarge the photo, then use the right arrow to see the photos in slideshow format. Flip thro…

He loves to cook and socialize while doing so; she loves to sew. He’s drawn to contemporary style; she leans more traditional. But one thing they agreed on was that their cramped, closed-off and dated kitchen wasn’t doing it for either of them. Enter …

“My client is a busy dermatologist, and she told me that she lives in the bathroom when she is home,” says Richard Ryder of Clearcut Construction. So in a house with lots of future renovations planned, the master bathroom she shares with her husband w…

Thousands of green-building professionals came together recently in Atlanta for the 2019 Greenbuild International Convention and Expo. The purpose of the Nov. 19-22 conference was to help pros learn about and find cutting-edge solutions to improve res…

Last week thousands of green building professionals came together in Atlanta for the 2019 Greenbuild International Convention and Expo. The purpose of the Nov. 19-22 conference was to showcase cutting-edge solutions to improving resiliency, sustainabi…

Lately many designers have been using a wet room strategy to make the most of bathroom space. This approach combines the bathtub and shower together behind a full or partial enclosure that keeps water out of the rest of the bathroom. With a wet room s…

The owner of this Brooklyn, New York, apartment was a bit of a hand-me-down magnet. And she realized that some of her belongings — oversize furniture, lots of accessories and heavy pieces — were weighing her down. “My client looked around and realized…

Struggling to lay out a backyard design that would make sense in their awkwardly shaped lot, this couple enlisted Princeton Design Collaborative, the firm that had helped them with renovations inside their house in the past, to help. “The first time I…

I once told a Houzz colleague that I actually enjoy cleaning my bathroom now that I’ve renovated it. If you know me, this is kind of unbelievable, so she asked if it was easier to clean now. I hadn’t thought about it before, but I realized it is. The …

Some of the gorgeous cookware collections I see on Houzz are displayed in downright mouthwatering ways. The ways these pots and pans are composed, lit and hung on well-thought-out racks and rails are worthy of admiration. Go ahead and steal these idea…