Renovation (also called remodeling) is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure. Renovations are typically either commercial or residential. Additionally, renovation can refer to making something new, or bringing something back to life and can apply in social contexts. For example, a community can be renovated if it is strengthened and revived.

Home improvement, home renovation or remodeling is the process of renovating or making additions to one's home.

Remodelista

24 July 2026

  • ‘Mamma Mia’ Music Producer Nick Gilpin’s Stylishly Revived Georgian Manse

    If houses could talk this one might say, “Here we go again.” It sits at the center of a crescent of Georgian dwellings that overlook the historic English city of Bath: Jane Austen would take long walks here for the rarefied air and the views. Used as University of Bath housing for the last 60 […]

  • Elegant Simplicity: A New Line of Japanese Linens for the Kitchen and Elsewhere

    Ask me what object in my kitchen brings me daily joy, and I’ll tell you: my set of practical yet delicate stacking glasses by Kinto in Japan. Up until recently, Kinto has made stellar drinkware and tumblers—but now they’ve added a new offering to their collections: kitchen textiles and linens that are as elegant yet […]

  • Simone Bodmer-Turner’s Tableware: The Artist-Designer’s Made-in-Massachusetts Collection

    When Simone Bodmer-Turner moved from an apartment and studio in Brooklyn to a 19th century farmhouse in a rural corner of Western Massachusetts, her initial settling-in period became known as”the year of living without a kiln.” During that time, the artist-designer, best known for her sculptural ceramic vases, worked with bronze, plaster and wood, creating […]

  • Kitchen of the Week: Base Cabinets by Ikea, Chic and Colorful Doors by Reform

    If we were to describe this kitchen using words only and no images, you’d be forgiven if the word “tacky” comes to mind. Let’s give it a try: This kitchen in Berlin features minimalist cabinets with fronts in a variety of colors—red, green, orange, white, and blue. See what we mean? Fortunately, we have images […]

  • Norwegian Wood: Restoring Hotel Sundal, an 1889 Timber Hotel in Western Norway

    In 2018, Caroline Steine and Harald Andreassen left the city to take on an unlikely project: restoring Hotel Sundal, an 1889 timber hotel that had sat empty for years in western Norway’s Hardanger region. Originally built by Erik Gausvik and Anna Eikenes, early pioneers of glacier tourism, the hotel once welcomed European aristocracy, emperors, and […]

Retro Renovation

Ugly Duckling House

24 July 2026

Exterior Coating
Home Insulation
Roofing
Solar Energy