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Emily Lindberg and Wu Hanyen took matters into their own hands—and those of their creative community—to save money where they could. Emily Lindberg and Wu Hanyen’s home seems so distinctively their own because, for the most part, they made it themselves. Emily, an interior and architectural designer with a firm in her name, and Wu, a sculpture professor and furniture maker with her own brand, called Work in Use, replaced…

If you need to find a plumber or someone to fix a hole in the roof, consider a new source: social media. It’s a distinct change of pace from the viral dances, “must-have” shopping deals, and other TikTok tropes: “Let’s cut open this twelve-year-old hot-water heater and find out what’s on the inside,” announces a smooth but matter-of-fact voice while a faceless pair of gloved hands starts to peel away…

Henry Ng explains how, like his design process, the bite-size Chinese treats are layered, collaborative, and sometimes a little messy. The New Year can be a depressing time. Postholiday, a lot of people are isolated. To extend the season’s spirit, every January my grad school friends and I get together on weekends at my architecture firm’s coworking space in New York’s Chinatown to make dumplings for our annual Lunar New…

We break down the real costs—the saves, and the splurges—that allowed people to make their homes uniquely their own. What’s the one thing in your home that’s essential? The nonnegotiable? The thing that will make your house yours? And what would you sacrifice to get it? Our annual Money Issue is all about the compromises we make to get it right. Whether you’re building, renovating, or just redecorating, the choice…

An architecture firm and a developer saved on budget and construction waste by adapting a prominent former post office in Brest, France, into full-service apartments for seniors. It’s a coveted sunny afternoon in Brest, a port city in the northwest of France. As lunchtime hits, a stream of local office workers and residents fill the city’s central square, Place de la Liberté. Overlooking the Rue de Siam leading up to…

Aimed at reducing the burden of domestic labor for working women in the interwar period, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s pioneering modular cooking space laid the groundwork for the modern built-in kitchen. Welcome to Origin Story, a series that chronicles the lesser-known histories of designs that have shaped how we live. If the kitchen is really the heart of the home, it better meet the demands of the era and the needs of…

An architect spends just over $1 million on modular units to create a custom property for herself and her son’s family. California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea is renowned for its scenic charm and proximity to one of the richest marine habitats in the world. But affordable housing for a young family? With home prices averaging $2 million to $3 million, not so much. So, when architect Gabriele Mary Ann Schicketanz sold her place…

Two friends in Minnesota brought unused drawings to life before creating a companion home with a rhyming roof and material palette. Over the course of a seven-decade career and up until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright was remarkably prolific. He designed more than 1,100 structures, from museums, office towers, hotels, and churches to houses of all sizes and configurations. Not all were realized, but some served as templates…

In the news: The Pritzker Prize winner, disgruntled Airbnb hosts, a burdened L.A. housing market, and more. Airbnb hosts are packing their bags—not for a getaway, but in protest. Hosts are ditching the platform in droves due to cofounder Joe Gebbia’s involvement with DOGE, Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s controversial cost-cutting machine. (The San Francisco Standard) Airstream takes glamping on the road with a new all-electric travel trailer, decked…

If you’re dreaming of an ’80s bathroom or want a kitchen that looks like “The Brady Bunch” (but better), consider these tips from designers and era-obsessed creators who’ve styled their lives around a particular decade. A brisk scroll through home design social media will surface era-obsessed creators styling their lives around a favorite decade or historical aesthetic. They will often show it off in a kitchen or a bathroom because…