Amanda is a home improvement and lifestyle writer with over 10 years of experience. In addition to her writing, you can find Amanda hosting national and local TV segments across the county. Her work ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While you may fear that open kitchen shelving is a gateway for clutter or disorganization, that isn't ...

The biggest design decision of my DIY kitchen renovation wasn’t the color scheme or choosing materials. It was whether or not to ditch my upper cabinets and replace them with open shelving. My husband ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Remember Marni? Of course you do. She recently retired from writing the weekly column that ran in these pages but still contributes the occasional missive. This is one of them. I know ...

The kitchen is where the best cooking adventures take place as well as where culinary mishaps are bound to happen (most of which can be laughed about later at least). Therefore it should be primed and ...

While kitchens are a hot spot to gather during parties today, most pre-1940s homeowners would have shuddered at welcoming guests into the cooking area. Kitchens were relegated to the back of the house ...

Good small kitchen design and decor ideas solve big problems. Some kitchens are simply too small for an island. Enter the kitchen island’s sister — the peninsula. A kitchen peninsula, like this one in ...

Danielle Balanis, the founder of Danielle Balanis Design in Birmingham, Alabama, repurposed brightly patterned Schumacher curtains that had once lived in the homeowner’s downtown Birmingham bar, ...

I know it’s tempting. You see those clean, uncluttered open shelves in kitchens, with their matching ceramic dishes, beautifully staged glassware, lots of negative space, and you think, “Why not? If ...