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Amy Peters didn’t have an issue with the dark brown vanity in her master bathroom—the wood could easily be painted white. She also didn’t care that the countertops were a veiny gray granite, because they paired nicely with the slate stone floors. For her, the biggest eyesore was the giant sheet mirror. “I called it the ‘builder’s special,’” she says, laughing. The Canadian design blogger had lived with her dated, mid-2000s bathroom as is for two years. Then she stumbled across two curved mirrors in a discount furnishings store and everything changed. “They were the perfect arch,” she recalls. “As...

Photography and Design by Studio Laloc; Illustration by Madeline Montoya In Renovator’s Notebook, homeowners open up about the nitty-gritty of their remodels: How long it really took, how much it actually cost, what went horribly wrong, and what went wonderfully, serendipitously, it’s-all-worth-it-in-the-end right. The hardest-working room in designer and Studio Laloc founder Lauren Lothrop Caron’s Seattle home is, surprisingly, the smallest. In a past life, the 50-square-foot space was a porch. Now it’s a multipurpose pantry or, as Caron, an Anglophile at heart, likes to call it, a scullery. The area is a pass-through between the kitchen and the backyard,...

In fact, the average American will spend about 5 times more in the kitchen than in the living room. This makes it extremely important that your kitchen looks good. However, as you go about your renovations, it may be easy to overlook the kitchen sink. The sink the centerpiece of your kitchen space and you’ll find that getting the right one can mean all the difference in the world. Modern kitchen sinks are made with functionality, design and convenience in mind. They are made large enough so as to accommodate all your pots and pans, yet still look classy enough...

Unfortunately, this comes with the baggage that is dishes; which, next to childbirth, may very well be mankind’s greatest punishment from the heavens. With technology however, the process of having to clean all those fatty pots and pans manually is a little more bearable. With a dishwasher, the struggle is simply narrowed down to the press of a button. Being possibly the hardest-working home appliances, dishwashers have continued to evolve over time. Besides being more efficient in their job, these machines are now cheaper, compact and more energy-efficient than ever. They are also way quieter and come in small portable...

Fall is officially in the air, which means the weather is getting a bit cooler, the leaves are beginning to turn, pumpkin spice everything abounds, football season is here, and the nights are growing a little bit longer. All of these are the perfect reason for indulging in the season of candles, and what’s more, with the desire to curl up under a blanket with a good read, it makes only the most perfect sense you’d want bookish candles to surround you with literary scents. Find here the ultimate guide to bookish candles, with something to suit every single preference...