Articles by Jeannie Matteucci

Call it the elephant in the room. Imagine a compact island with a range on it in the middle of a kitchen, except when you stand at the range, instead of looking out to the rest of the kitchen, all you see is a solid wall. That was the glaring problem …

In 2007, Jason and Shannon Langer moved into Shannon’s childhood home. The busy tech-industry couple worked with design pros to remodel the 1978 home in phases over the years. More recently, they remodeled the dated beige guest bathroom down the hall …

If you spent long, leisurely days this summer on your wood deck, then you probably don’t want to face the reality that depending on where you live, colder months may be ahead and your deck might not get as much use. But now’s the time to take action t…

Finding a house that would allow them to spend time with their extended family and friends was the goal for Michael and Lindsay Garea, who call Brooklyn, New York, home when they’re working in the city. The couple, who have two young daughters, fell i…

Finding a house that would allow them to spend time with their extended family and friends was the goal for Michael and Lindsay Garea, who call Brooklyn, New York, home when they’re working in the city. The couple, who have two young daughters, fell i…

For more than 16 years, a New Jersey couple had wanted to change the look of their aging kitchen, with its dark-stained wood cabinets and dysfunctional layout. Finally, with two daughters off to college and one in high school, they were ready to tackl…

This empty-nest couple enjoyed wonderful views of Washington’s Puget Sound through the windows of their eclectic, two-level hillside home. However, they felt the inside of the house was less captivating, particularly the kitchen, which had dark walls,…

This empty-nest couple enjoyed wonderful views of Washington’s Puget Sound through the windows of their eclectic, two-level hillside home. However, they felt the inside of the house was less captivating, particularly the kitchen, which had dark walls,…

This empty-nest couple enjoyed wonderful views of Washington’s Puget Sound through the windows of their eclectic, two-level hillside home. However, they felt the inside of the house was less captivating, particularly the kitchen, which had dark walls,…

Caroline and Bill Balz spent four years thinking about how they were going to create a new kitchen in their historic 1840 farmhouse that sits on a former dairy farm in Weston, Massachusetts. They realized that renovating inside wasn’t going to work, s…