Home & Style Features

A Yard That Has Everything

In Waldwick, a once-drab outdoor space now boasts roses, hydrangeas, Japanese maples, Adirondack chairs, two staircases, two firepits, a hot tub, couches, a TV—even a putting green.

Living Twice as Large

The once steep, mostly unusable backyard of a Montclair Tudor is now an inviting, multi-tier recreational haven that has doubled the home’s living-space footprint.

Floating On Grass

A Montclair family achieves their vision of a pool that knows its place, achieves an effect and honors the spirit of their home.

Why Ever Leave Home?

Now that warm weather’s here, a backyard swimming pool in Tenafly gives all the world’s vacation spots a run for their money.

A Kitchen Renewed

Before its special-order Reno, this space in a ‘60s-era cape in West Caldwell felt stale and didn’t work well. Now it’s fresh and efficient.

Coastal Cool

The casual vibe of a seaside park vacation home allows a dad and his three adult children to chill and connect in comfort and style.

Can Practical Be Fun?

A Closter kitchen, redeemed from a clumsy design and a sea of sterile white, proves the answer is yes.

Upsize With A Smile

When NYC apartment dwellers moved to a Morris township house, a designer helped make it feel less sterile—and more friendly.

The Colors Of Joy

To style their Glen Rock home, a retired couple dove into the crayon box—and found a designer who could make it all work.

Rising From The Ashes

When a fire-razed Tudor home in Millburn was renovated from the ground up, it was a chance to marry tradition with innovation.

Surprise In Stone

At first expected to do only the façade of a new-construction home, an outdoor design firm ends up taking on a much bigger assignment.

Taming A Hard Yard

The family loved being outside, but a forbidding backyard with a steep slope and too many trees made that difficult—until the right landscape designer went to work.

Life Is Better At The Beach

Summer is finally here! Our county offers the best sun, sand and surf, and there’s much more. Here’s your guide to what’s new at 15 local beaches, including tips for parking and picnicking, snacking and shopping, and more!

Quality On A Deadline

A family wanted their rebuilt Bay Head beach home to be perfect, but they also didn’t want to miss a single day of summer.

Love That Basement

For a long time, a spider-hating North Caldwell homeowner shunned her home’s lower level. But today it’s a lively locus of football viewing, wine tasting and her own German roots.

Extended Family

A new-construction Ramsey house accommodates three generations—with a beachtime vibe they all enjoy.

Legacy Of A Storm

No one would choose this way to renovate their home. But when superstorm Sandy destroyed everything except for a coffee table, a family got a chance for the beach house of their dreams.

Patio Magic

In Pompton Plains, a designer helped turn an uninspiring backyard with a deck into a visually stunning entertainment haven.

Their Long Branch Future

Full of angles and wasted space, a family’s beach-house condominium needed a redesign to rate becoming a year-round home.