Photography by Michael Wiltbank Making long-term adjustments to spending more time at home can feel daunting—but you don’t necessarily have to rejigger your apartment’s layout to make your space work. All you need are a few triple-duty pieces that do the heavy lifting for you, and this best-seller from The Container Store is a good place to start: a mint-colored three-tier rolling cart. It rings in at $30 and, according to a store rep, has been spiking in popularity these past few months. We can see why: The multifunctional trolley is the perfect catchall organizer. Use it to corral loose odds and ends and get rid of visual clutter. It’s also portable, so you can switch up its job description...
At first, spray-painting kitchen cabinets sounds like a makeshift solution for dated fixtures—only advisable as a last resort. However, maybe you’ve just been focusing on the wrong tools. Instead of using aerosol cans, have you thought about trying a paint sprayer? Designer Jen Levy went this route when it came time to give her kitchen island a facelift. “I wanted it to have a high-gloss finish, and I actually first tried using a roller,” she explains. “I quickly learned that this type of paint doesn’t look so great when you apply it that way.” Unsatisfied with the stroke marks and less-than-perfectly-smooth varnish, she bought an $89 stationary sprayer from Home Depot and got to work. HVLP Stationary Sprayer, The Home...
For weeks, I’ve been living with a far-from-functional kitchen. The Los Angeles cabin that me and my husband, Buck Mason founder Erik Ford, recently purchased is essentially a full-on construction zone, and we’ve been making do with a $100 laundry tub as a sink and a rickety, stand-alone dishwasher, which I swiftly cover up with a blanket when not in use. I was gung-ho on renovating the room, but then the COVID-19 pandemic happened. It has majorly impacted everything. While the California governor’s office has deemed construction an essential service in the state, I’m not having visitors over right now, and this includes most contractors. But instead of letting quarantine put a damper on my timeline, I’m taking matters into my...
