Articles by Becky Harris

It’s hard to imagine how a giant antique map could live harmoniously in a contemporary space, but in this Vancouver condo, it’s a big success. Interior designers Jamie Hamilton and Greer Nelson updated and opened up this once-dark and cramped condo, using a cohesive color palette and modern lines…

In a kitchen, it’s all about the details. And a range backsplash can draw all eyes to it. This space between the stove-top and the vent hood is a prime opportunity to create an interesting focal point that brings in new textures, colors and images. Here are 11 things range backsplashes can do for a kitchen’s…

Brooms and mops can be tough to store neatly and efficiently. Confession: My own usually wind up crammed next to my refrigerator, with everything falling down when I grab for one. They don’t fare much better leaning up against a wall in the downstairs closet, toppling down whenever I need to get a coat….

A designer recently told me that lots of people are afraid to use peach. A color must have done something truly terrifying for the masses to fear it so. What did peach ever do to us? Well, I’ll tell you. In the 1980s, there were some truly hideous uses of peach — frilly bridesmaid dresses with 27 ruffles,…

Sometimes we forget that staircases can make a big design statement. And when I look through the most popular staircases added to Houzz in the first quarter of 2017 — as measured by the number of people who saved them to their ideabooks from January through March — the wide range of styles found in Houzzer…