Perhaps the reason for the increasing popularity of home offices is that nowadays, people are either bringing work home or actually working from home. Whether you have a large room dedicated as a home office, or just a small corner that you turned into a working space, there are elements that can make your work area functional, stimulating and fun. Here are the 33 most popular home offices, in order of popularity, together with your comments about what makes a great home office. Home … [Read more...]

Small Laundry Room Ideas - Doing laundry can be boring, mundane and a little stressful. So if there’s a way to make the room in which you do your washing and folding a little more pleasurable, wouldn’t you go for it? We spend countless hours in our laundry rooms, scrubbing out stains, pressing our best and even washing the dog. Shouldn't we make this space as functional and pleasant as possible? Laundry rooms have come a long way from the barren basement rooms so many of us grew up with. … [Read more...]

Small bedrooms can be tricky to decorate. They often end up as unloved spaces with little personality because we’re worried that too much stuff will “shrink” them visually. Conversely, small spare rooms can end up as dumping grounds for old fitness equipment, packaging or clothes-drying racks. While a typical master bedroom is usually large enough to accommodate cabinets and chests of drawers, a second or third bedroom may be big enough only for a bed and little else. How can you make the … [Read more...]

Contrary to what you might think, you don’t need acres of counter space or dozens of drawers and cupboards to have an organized kitchen that’s a joy to cook in. If anything, a smaller kitchen can encourage you to streamline your stuff and live more simply. Who wants cabinets chock-full of unloved pasta machines and dusty bread makers anyway? Check out these easy ways to restore order to your less-than-enormous kitchen. Whether you’re planning a new kitchen from scratch, remodeling what’s … [Read more...]

Studio apartments can be one-room wonders that offer ideas for homes and apartments of all sizes. From navigating how to design a bedroom that also works as a living room to managing a storage system that doesn’t make you feel like you’re also living in your closet, some studio issues are universal — and the solutions are often fun to look at. Show us: If you live in a studio apartment, we want to see it in the Comments below. If you’re an architect or a designer who has recently completed a … [Read more...]