Renovation (also called remodeling) is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure.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

05 June 2026

  • Against Cultural Flattening: Creative Retreats as the New Way to Travel

    This past March, The Wall Street Journal‘s “Craft Retreats Are the New Burnout Cure” caught our attention. It’s something we’ve noticed among friends, too: traveling to Sicily to finally take up basketry from a favorite weaver, making cheese and yogurt in the Basque mountains, and so forth. This style of travel is not for the […]

  • Kitchen(s) of the Week: Freestanding Cabinetry by Loose Parts in Upstate NY

    Jennifer June creates kitchens that are purpose-built, great-looking, and made to last. And those are but a few of the reasons to admire what she does. June is both an interior designer and a cabinetmaker, a useful if uncommon combination. She’s also a teacher at Parsons School of Design, her alma mater—she co-leads the MFA […]

  • My Beautiful Luncheonette: La Cantine in Bushwick

    A bakery and lunch spot by day and a small bistro and natural wine bar by night, La Cantine is located on a gritty-ish corner of Bushwick, an on-the-up neighborhood in Brooklyn. For the interiors, owners Ioana Hercberg, a transplanted Parisian, and her partner, chef Raymond Lyons, worked with French-American designer Sophie Lou Jacobsen of […]

  • 10 Easy Pieces: Dining Tables on Wheels

    An idea worth considering: a dining table on wheels, especially if you’re lucky enough to have an indoor/outdoor situation. You could DIY a version or go with one of the 10 options we’ve sourced here, many of which take cues from restaurant kitchens, science labs, classrooms, and Shaker prep tables. For more tables, see our […]

  • A Poetic Tea Room in Taipei Designed By Homework Studio

    Homework Studio of Taipei, Taiwan, creates interiors that evoke intriguing, hard-to-pinpoint earlier eras: see, for instance, the Homework Photo Studio and A Childhood Apartment Updated. Wolf Tea’s new location in Taipei’s historic Dadaocheng district is another standout. Located on the ground floor of a tiled, multi-story building that only dates to the 1970s, the salon […]

Retro Renovation

Ugly Duckling House

05 June 2026

Exterior Coating
Home Insulation
Roofing
Solar Energy