Renovation (also called remodeling) is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure.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

16 June 2026

  • Remodelista Reconnaissance: A Handmade Ceramic Basin

    A while back, I wrote about a thoughtful, eco-conscious remodel in Melbourne, Australia (see Retrofit Over Rebuild: An Architect and Interior Designer’s Sensitively Restored 1970s Home). The original home was hand-built—and so, too, were many of the elements inside the home, from the furniture-quality kitchen cabinetry to this hand-thrown ceramic basin I can’t stop thinking […]

  • A Once-Dormant Stone Barn in the French Countryside, Reimagined by Saba Ghobanalinejad

    Paris-based Iranian architect Saba Ghobanalinejad has an acute ability to reveal the inherent qualities of a building rather than overwrite them. Her renovation of a former working barn attached to a family country house in Montigny-Lengrain, an hour outside Paris, is no exception. Tasked with transforming the dormant 700-square-foot building into a flexible space for […]

  • Elsewhere: What Vacation Houses Get Right

    I’ve had an observation on my mind in recent years. It may have emerged in the lockdown era of 2020, when looking inward at one’s home and daily life took the place of outward travel and exploration. Once the world reopened and slowly returned to a regular pace of travel, swapping homes, and booking holiday […]

  • Current Obsessions: The Joy of Color

    We have color and joy on the brain this weekend: pretty palettes, rose arbors, cherry-topped cakes, pattern plays galore. And, of course, blue and orange, too. (Let’s go, Knicks!) This week we’ve been eyeing all things Scandinavian design…including this newly opened housewares store in Stonington, CT (hat tip: Julie). Annie traveled to Copenhagen for 3daysofdesign! Check out […]

  • A Textile Collector’s Colorful Family Apartment in Copenhagen: At Home with Cecilie Stöger Nachman

    I first learned of the work of Cecilie Stöger Nachman through a collaboration she once did with Copenhagen children’s store Studio Mini. Through Nachmans, Cecilie’s “own small online universe”, she creates handmade objects from her archive of vintage printed fabrics. I promptly bought one of her fabric-covered boxes and have been using it as a […]

Retro Renovation

Ugly Duckling House

16 June 2026

Exterior Coating
Home Insulation
Roofing
Solar Energy