Picking the right bathroom tile carries more permanence than, say, a new set of towels. You really don’t want to install a wall tile only to hate it in six months ...

A tile backsplash can make a kitchen look custom without requiring special skills or a huge budget. The area you’re covering is relatively small, mistakes are fixable, and the impact on your kitchen’s ...

Six months ago, my son bought a new house. He had been looking to move from his apartment for well over a year. The hot real estate market made it hard to find a house in his price range. Each tired ...

Ever since I finished building my new house four years ago, a nagging little project has gone unfinished. I had a countertop in a small kitchen area with nothing behind it but painted drywall. When we ...

Melissa is a writer who focuses on home design, trends and projects. She covers content for a variety of sites to help readers navigate everything from finding the right interior color palette to ...

Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just a stressful task for DIY home renovators. It is also one of the hardest problems in mathematics. For centuries, experts have been studying the special ...