15 Years of Remodelista: Sleeper Hits, Surprise Cameos, and More

This past year, Remodelista turned 15 (hard to believe!). We launched in the early days of the Internet (no Instagram, no Pinterest) with a simple idea: four design-minded friends sharing remodeling tips based on a dozen renovation experiences. And we remain a small band of friends trading ideas and obsessing over design details.

We reported in at year 10 with memories from our first decade (two appearances on the Martha Stewart Show! three books! surprise hit post: black toilet paper!). Here, we add a few more:

2018

• The Cuban mop is an instant hit, and green kitchens are everywhere.

• Spotted in Life & Style, a shout-out from Sandra Bullock: “I get up on Sundays, and I’m literally looking at house listings and Remodelista. It’s my porn.”

2019

• We photograph the Bed-Stuy apartment of designer, shop-owner, entrepreneur, and woman-of-many-hats Kai Avent-deLeon…and from then on look to her as an arbiter of style. (We’ve since featured her new digs in our book The Low-Impact Home and her upstate pad here.)
• Julie’s redone guest cottage goes wild on Instagram; so too does this Scottish bath.

2020/21

• Home—a refuge from the world, a place of comfort over consumerism—feels more important than ever. While we all hunker down, we ask some of our favorite creators to send a glimpse of where they are.
• And Fan first spots the work of rising design star Beata Heuman; we all quickly start following.

2022

• Almost 10,000 of you read Farewell to the Gas Range (and are perhaps, like us, ready for the Era of Induction).
• The Shaker sensation continues: Margot’s 8 Ideas to Borrow from the Shaker-Inspired Commerce Inn in NYC is one of our top posts of the year.

2023

• Annie starts as editor in chief of Remodelista, and cloth lights, checks, and fish—yes, fish—are the surprise trends of 2023.
• We’ve traveled—virtually—to 36 countries for our Design Travel guides, which span from France to Japan to Morocco to Romania.
• We hit 12,561 posts published, and 862 weekly issues, since our very first dispatch. (The first few concerned oilcloths, Agas, and dressed-up dressers.)

Thanks for following along all these years—it’s our discerning readers who make it all worthwhile.

For past highlights, see:

• Looking Ahead, Looking Back: 10 Years of Remodelista
• Looking Ahead, Looking Back: 5 Years of Gardenista