Voltaire wrote Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien, often translated as "The perfect is the enemy of the good;" he might well have been talking about residential construction. You run the gamut from the ...

Gallery walls are a lot like Eames chairs and that one mirror from Anthropologie – they’ve been trendy for so long that it’s safe to say they’re not really a trend at all. And they’ve stuck around ...

Cob wall on stone foundation. Building with cob is pretty straight forward. Anyone in the family can learn the basic techniques and with a bit of guidance, you can build structures together as a group ...

Start by rolling on a masonry waterproofing product. This step is only to help prevent water that naturally migrates through concrete through a capillary effect, not a permanent solution to a bulk ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, we’re hoping you are actually the fairest of them all. If not, it may be time to design a DIY mirror frame. There’s nothing more uninspired than a boring floating mirror.

Question: I own a summer cabin that’s been in my family for generations. My wife and I decided to make it our full-time home. It needs lots of work, which I intend to do myself. One of the projects is ...