Articles by Becky Harris

When this family of five needed to move from Colorado to a suburb outside St. Louis, it chose a 1980s central hall Colonial house it didn’t love because the home was close to the schools it did love. Education won out over aesthetics. Besides, the hom…

Not since Prince outfitted Paisley Park has a Minneapolis-area homeowner loved purple so much. In fact, this family of six’s dog is named Purple. When the owners decided to build their new home in a rural area outside the Twin Cities, they tasked Aspe…

East meets West, industrial meets earthy, cool meets warm — all these contrasts ultimately resulted in a style that interior designer Linette Dai calls urban glam. In the kitchen of this new build in Southern California, Dai combined striking marble w…

It’s tough to think about removing an existing pantry, but in the case of this Canadian kitchen, it was a no-brainer for interior designer Aniko Nicholson. Getting rid of the pantry’s awkwardly angled walls and taking over the space opened up myriad p…

When it came to finding inspiration for the landscape around this Fox Point, Wisconsin, home, landscape designer James Drzewiecki looked to the structure’s quintessential midcentury modern architecture. Designed by architects Lillian and Willis Leenho…

This Trending Now story features the most-saved bedroom photos uploaded to Houzz between Dec. 15, 2023, and March 15, 2024.A calm and serene bedroom is the goal of many homeowners. Whether you favor layers of light neutrals or dark and moody tones, yo…

This Canadian family’s main residence in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is very modern. In order to make it that way, they had looked to Houzz for an interior designer, found Andrea Rodman and hired her to give it that style. But for…

In this small bathroom, more is more. The Portland, Oregon, space measures only about 40 square feet, but the woman who uses it didn’t let that stop her from going big and bold with style. “Our client wanted the bathroom to be happy, fun, beautiful an…

This Trending Now story features the most-saved laundry room photos uploaded to Houzz between December 15, 2023, and March 15, 2024.Mixing utility and style in a laundry room is the goal for many homeowners. And this countdown of the most-saved laundr…

“This client has fallen in love with the renovation process — we’ve worked through most of her house at this point,” contractor Thomas Murdock says. The homeowner, a retired woman, was looking to upgrade the finishes and freshen up her approximately …