Some rooms are blessed with really great bones. Things like original wood cabinets, brass hardware, and hexagonal tiles to name a few. But even when these features are in great shape, it can be hard to incorporate them into a modern remodel — especially when your contractor, your mother, and your neighbor are all telling you to gut the space. So how do you decide what to keep and what to toss? Well, if you’re like me, you default to saving every original feature you lay eyes on.

OFFICE SPACE “Every room should have a purpose,” declares Christie Leu, founding principal of Christie Leu Interiors. “Always assign a purpose to a room or it will attract junk.” For the designer, these are words to live by—in her own house as well as those of her clients. Case in…

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Thinking about the fridge when laying out a kitchen – Katie Jane Interiors

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A one-wall kitchen is a kitchen that is all built into one linear wall. These types of kitchens are found typically in small homes and efficiency apartments to conserve floor space and construction costs. A one-wall kitchen has all appliances, cabinets and countertops on one wall. This allows the owner to perform all tasks in...

How I built shelves to hide the side of my fridge.

My original criteria for a refrigerator was to minimize it as MUCH as possible. In some kind of vortex of frugal-impossibility, the fridge I had settled on was $1,300 AND had a larger interior than our current fridge, despite having a smaller exterior footprint. I was VERY pleased with myself. But, like much of life, […]