Depending on your lifestyle preferences and cooking habits, open-concept kitchens can be the perfect solution to “enlarging” a small home. HDB apartments, especially new BTO flats, may seem ...

When working in compact spaces, design choices that create an open, airy feel are key. This luxurious L-shaped kitchen, ...

The idea of an open concept kitchen is not at all unusual, especially in the case of modern and contemporary homes.

Whether you live in a sprawling ranch, center hall Colonial, or petite apartment, one thing rings true: the kitchen is probably the center of your home. Life naturally orbits around this do-it-all ...

While kitchens are a hot spot to gather during parties today, most pre-1940s homeowners would have shuddered at welcoming guests into the cooking area. Kitchens were relegated to the back of the house ...

Although kitchens with glass dividers or semi-open layouts are steadily gaining ground in the interior design world, the open-plan concept remains a major trend and a firm favourite for many. Creating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. For the past few decades, the sledgehammer has begun most ...

Home with open-concept living room and kitchen - Sl-f/Getty Images Tour a home built in the '90s and you're bound to see an open floor plan. The layout started trending in the 1950s when families ...

A century of American kitchen design, from the dawn of electricity to the kitchen island. By Rachel Wharton Rachel Wharton spoke to designers, architects, cabinet makers, organizers, historians, and ...

We renovated our kitchen to make our small, dated space feel bigger, modern, and functional. Some of our choices saved us money and opened our space.

Open floor plans have been the dominant trend in new construction since the 1990s, and they’ve been the goal of many remodeling projects in older homes as well. Turn on any home design television show ...

Design shows are all about tearing down walls and opening up spaces, but what’s wrong with a little more privacy and a little less togetherness? By Ronda Kaysen At some point, the previous owners of ...