Renovation (also called remodeling) is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure.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

22 February 2025

  • Current Obsessions: Dreaming of Spring
    Do you follow Good News Movement on Instagram? (It’s worth a look, if you need a little levity.) In that spirit, here’s this week’s Good News Roundup, Design Edition: sweet handmade lights! Free tulips! And spring on the horizon. Read on: We’ve been waiting for these sweet handkerchief lights to be available, and the moment […]
  • Two Flats Are Turned Into One Perfect Home for a Family of Five
    Over the past few years, we’ve covered a number of projects by Barcelona-based design firm Conti, Cert. They all share a similar aesthetic—white-ish walls, high beamed ceilings, clean lines, a light touch—yet every single time we encounter a new project by its founders, Andrea Conti and Isabel Cert, we are smitten all over again. Our latest […]
  • A Culinary Love Letter: Juliet Restaurant in Gloucestershire, England
    Discovered via the excellent Tat London blog—”an online jumble shop with a blog attached, run by me, Charlie Porter”— Juliet Restaurant, a new and subtly chic dining venue named for owner/sculptor Daniel Chadwick’s wife (how romantic!). Chadwick, a sculptor and the impresario behind the Woolpack Inn in Gloucester, has a knack for offhand chic. Chadwick […]
  • The Surprising Appeal of a Cedar-Lined Closet, DIY Edition
    Now presenting the latest in a series of posts by Sally Kohn— journalist and CNN political commentator, TED talk giver, and design aficionado—chronicling her adventures in remodeling. In this installment: There are many reasons to line a closet with cedar: it smells lovely, keeps moths away….and, as Sally found, it gives a hard-working but under-appreciated […]
  • Kitchen of the Week: A Dutch Interior Designer’s New Setup for Cooking, Crafting, and Gathering
    The bright, new first floor of Suzanne Pardijs’s family home near Utrecht in the Netherlands came about largely due to an accident. In January 2021, during the height of the pandemic, Suzanne was carrying a heavy chair to her upstairs studio when some hanging laundry caused her to lose her footing. The resulting fall “brought […]

Retro Renovation

Ugly Duckling House

22 February 2025

Exterior Coating
Home Insulation
Roofing
Solar Energy