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 ...

There’s something irresistible about an old home—the smell of aged timber, the wavy glass that distorts sunlight just enough, the imperfect floorboards that talk back with every step. But then someone ...

No sooner do some folks close on a home than they get started renovating or remodeling it, scheming to eliminate all evidence of the previous owners' taste and reshape reality to their liking. Other ...