When to Use Yellow in the Kitchen

Are you a sunny optimist? Or do you just wish you could channel that vibe? Associated with happiness, exuberance and positivity, yellow is an excellent color choice for the kitchen. Since yellow reflects a large amount of visible light compared with other colors, it's best to limit brighter shades of this attention-getting hue to small doses and materials that you really want to stand out.

Here are my top yellow paint picks and eight eye-catching yellow Houzz kitchens to inspire you...more

[Author: Jennifer Ott]

Obsessed With Gray in the Kitchen

[Author: Jason Ball]

When to Use Gray in the Kitchen

[Author: Jennifer Ott]

Gorgeous Sunrooms Bring In the Outdoors Year-Round

[Author: Luaren Dunec Hoang]

Sunrooms and Conservatories

Biophilic (meaning “nature-loving”) design is considered by many to be the missing piece in green architecture today. Derived in part from the life’s work of prominent American biologist E.O. Wilson, this emerging design discipline strives to move modern building practice into the same sustainable direction as the green building movement. But it goes further, seeking not only to minimize impact on planetary resources, but to actively improve human health, well-being and productivity. Today, many architects and designers are mining their intuitions for hints at what our collective human nature has been hungering for in the built environment. This Healthy Home series celebrates time-tested, rather than high-tech, strategies for turning your home into a biophilic paradise, starting with the biophilic benefits of sunrooms and conservatories...more

[Author: Jess McBride]

Elements of the Perfect Sunroom

[Author: Natalie Myers]

Blast De-cluttering Roadblocks Once and for All

There is enough advice on de-cluttering and organizing to fill an entire wing of a bookstore, and a quick online search brings up billions of results. But if it were as simple as picking up a book and following the author’s advice, wouldn’t we all have perfectly organized, streamlined homes? Well, judging from my own experience, and from the experiences of the many Houzz readers who have chimed in with comments on the subject, there is a lot more to culling clutter than tossing things in a bin. Our relationship with our home, and the things in it, is charged with emotion — it’s not so easy to let go of things when something as simple as a rusted tackle box or a worn photograph can bring memories flooding back. In the past several months we have been exploring this topic, and some of the best tips from our conversations are pulled together in this guide.

Below, find eight ways to move through your own mental and emotional roadblocks to work through your clutter, from the inside out...more

[Author: Laura Gaskill]

Your Total Home Organizing and Decluttering Guide

Take it slow or be a speed demon — this room-by-room approach to organizing and storage will get your home in shape no matter how you roll.

[Author: Vanessa Brunner]

Questions to Overcome a De-cluttering Roadblock

Let’s face it: For many of us, de=cluttering is really hard. First you have to find the time. Then you must make difficult decisions about what to keep and what to let go. Next you must figure out what to do with everything, whether that involves storing, selling or donating. And finally, you must follow through on your plan.

These tasks can be overwhelming, so it’s no wonder that many of us at some point hit a de=cluttering roadblock. And that’s OK. If you are letting go of something, you have to be emotionally ready to make that decision. If you’re not, you may find that certain items keep going into the “maybe” pile. Here are some questions to ask yourself when you can’t decide about a specific belonging. In my experience as a professional organizer, these questions often help my clients break through their de=cluttering block...more

[Patricia Lee]

When to Paint Your Home Yellow

[Author: Bud Dietrich]