Home & Design

How to Give Your Little Dorm Room Big Style

Because four years is too long to spend in a room that looks like a prison cell.

08/17/2016 By Miranda Proctor

5 Ways to Increase the Value of your Home

Selling your house? Learn how to get the most from your property.

07/01/2016

Space City

These Two House-Flippers Are Just Passing Through

When a place is perfect, that’s when you know it’s time to move on.

06/20/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Q&A

How to Pick the Perfect Rug

Saba Khonsari of Bastrop's Lost Pines Art Bazaar on how to find your Persian rug style and why owning them is easier than you think.

05/11/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Home & Design

6 to Watch: These Top Design Trends Will Be Hot in 2017

Fresh from her turn as a Style Spotter at High Point Market, Houston designer Marie Flanigan shares her favorite new looks, from wood to wallpaper.

04/25/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Home Design

A River Oaks Renovation That Took Two Decades

Five generations and a 20-year renovation make this 1935-era house a home.

03/01/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Vocab 101

First Things First: What’s an Apartment and What's a Condo?

And no, neither one is a townhome.

02/05/2016 By Roxanna Asgarian

Shopping

Deck the Halls, Y'all: 5 New Houston Home Stores to Hit

Montrose is Houston's latest hot design district, with a handful of stores with new and vintage offerings opening their doors.

12/04/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Home Decor

OMG, Ladies: Kate Spade Furniture Is Here

The designer is taking her feminine, preppy look and splashing it all over your house.

10/23/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Slideshow

AIA Home Tour Houstonia Readers' Poll

Explore the homes on this year's AIA Home Tour, and tell us—which is your favorite?

09/21/2015 With Hannah Holmes Photography by Benjamin Hill

Home & Design

Mid-Century Modern's New Gold Standard

Fifty years after the release of the original Platner Collection, the famous furnishings are getting a gorgeous, gilded makeover.

08/26/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Space City

The Porch Enjoys a Revival

Homeowners are rediscovering the iconic front porch, and all the benefits, social and otherwise, that come along with it.

05/31/2015 Photography by Max Burkhalter and Divya Pande By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Space City

Why Brett Zamore’s Shot-Trot Housing Might Be the Wave of the Future

The prefab housing craze is impractical and, in Houston, virtually impossible. Are kit homes the answer?

05/03/2015 Photography by Max Burkhalter By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

design

Past and Present Collide in Historic Home Tours

This weekend, peek inside the most interesting historical buildings in Houston and Galveston.

04/30/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

design

A Tale of Two Home Tours

This weekend, history and change are on display at both the Rice Design Alliance Architecture Tour and the Houston Heights Association Home & Garden Tour.

04/09/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Clutch City

Tray Chic!

Just put it on a tray, and call it a day.

01/04/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Design

What's the Color of Texas? Ask Bailey McCarthy

The designer and owner of Biscuit Home has created a Texas-themed palette for Farrow & Ball.

12/04/2014 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Space City

Holiday Entertaining in the Subtropics

Houston’s yuletide doesn’t resemble a Thomas Kinkade painting—and that’s okay.

11/30/2014 Photography by Shannon O'Hara By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Get the Look

The Milan Look: A Sexy-Cool Home

Just because you call Texas home doesn’t mean you can’t live la dolce vita.

10/22/2014 By Nadia Michel

Home Design

Slideshow: Three of Houston’s Coolest Home Bars

A bachelor pad, a mid-century wonder, and a mixologist’s dream

09/30/2014 By Katharine Shilcutt Photography by Max Burkhalter