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A Kitchen Conundrum

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Video Tours • Want to venture deeper inside your favorite Dwell homes? Explore our YouTube channel, where architects and residents take us on tours of their spaces and share their favorite details.

How do you deal with kitchen countertop clutter? • It’s easy for objects—essential or not—to collect on kitchen surfaces. Here, readers tell us about their approaches to keeping counters clear.

Concrete Poetry • A Mexico City artist’s home and studio frames open spaces with simple materials and sculptural forms.

Spring Cleaning • As our audience regularly reminds us, the kitchen and bathroom are the most frequently renovated rooms in the house. And, yes, you can rip out cabinets and replace plumbing, but even smaller, targeted interventions can have an immediate transformative effect. Here, we offer options—from adding a spa-worthy fragrance to updating your backsplash—to make an impact.

Clean It Creatively • Your home’s most functional tidying tools don’t have to be workaday. In fact, a touch of thoughtful design can make putting in some elbow grease a more satisfying experience.

What’s the Right Fragrance for My Bathroom? • Some advice from Boy Smells…

ASK A PLUMBER • Judaline Cassidy has been solving plumbing problems for more than 25 years, but there are a few tasks she wouldn’t mind you taking on yourself.

The Electronic Renaissance

Cooking (Without) Gas • Not only are induction ranges a cinch to clean, but depending where you get your electricity, they may also be a more sustainable alternative to a gas stove. These new models, which heat pots and pans almost instantly using magnetic currents, and one of the Internet’s favorite chefs make the case for putting out the flame.

Taking the Edge Off • Clean lines aren’t just elegant. We love these new bath fixtures for their easily polishable geometries and their spick-and-span aesthetics.

Fresh-Faced Tile • Your white subway tiles were outré by the end of the aughts. If you haven’t already, it’s time to ditch the chef’s kitchen look for more expressive styles that have as much personality as the dishes you prepare.

A Sort-It Tale • Clutter is the enemy of any home cook. Don’t go spelunking through cabinets and panicking in the pantry. Save time with our favorite new organization accessories instead.

The Great Pantry Purge • We asked five chefs to eliminate everything except their desert-island ingredients—and the keepers reveal the key to their cooking. Fridge feeling a little overseasoned? Take inspiration from their edits, and pare down your larder.

Ed Warner • The design leader is creating stylish bathrooms for people with disabilities—and anyone wanting a lifelong home free of “design crimes.”

Out of Gas • Cities across the country are banning natural gas in new homes. Will our future be all-electric?

Recipes for Success • Everyone has their own idea of a perfect kitchen. Three families tell us how they made theirs.

1 THE NEWLY MINTED INTERIOR

2 THE DISCREET ADDITION

3 THE ISLAND THAT’S EVERYTHING

Chasing the Sun • A house sheathed in metal and oriented for energy efficiency lets a family escape Brooklyn for an upstate haven.

A Better Fit • You’ve probably sat in one of Tom Deacon’s office chairs, but the designer’s re-renovation of his Toronto home is more about art than ergonomics.

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Nod to the Past • A set designer’s house blends colonial architecture, Miesian modernism, and contemporary...