Home & Style Features

A Backyard Steps Up

Once just a grassy slope, this Ho-Ho-Kus yard transforms into a multi-tiered entertainment zone.

Backyard Paradise

The new Alpine home already had a builtin pool. Then the landscape designer gave it palm trees, a dramatic fire feature and the feel of a luxe tropical resort.

They Make Parties Pop

More and more hosts are working with professional event planners to pull off pictureperfect celebrations. But is that expertise worth the extra cost?

The Pressure on Mom

For a designer, a Livingston renovation presented aesthetic and functional issues—plus the challenge of pleasing a client who was family.

Paint It Black

Bold colors and architectural details provide a once-outdated freehold living room with unmistakable glamour.

Island In The Storm

A busy Ramsey family took advantage of ample floor space in a 1970s home to make their kitchen more functional and fun.

Scoring A Win

The first floor of an Upper Saddle River home is transformed into a customized, elevated haven after years of heavy use.

His Style Vs. Hers?

It took a designer to bridge the gap between a husband and wife’s diverging tastes, creating a family room that’s truly family-friendly.

Layered and Livable

In Chatham, a designer’s strategy gives a retired couple’s new-construction home a calm, comfortable look in which “everything feels considered.”

A Wise Upsize

As a family adjusts to a larger living space in Ho-Ho-Kus, a traditional colonial gets a comfortable, captivating refresh.

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.