The 10 Most Popular Houzz Ideabooks of 2013

Houzz passed a milestone this month when it published its 10,000th featured ideabook on home design and remodeling. In case you missed the most viewed ideabooks on Houzz so far, we’ve put together a list of them.

There are a few recurring themes here. Kitchen colors, styles and countertop materials dominate; four of the 10 ideabooks are about kitchens. But color is big, too, with three discussing color choices in the home. Here are the 10 ideabooks that got the most attention in 2013, and tips on how you can use the Houzz archive to get your next home project started.

1. 12 Tried and True Paint Colors for Your Walls

Painting is one of the best ways to add life to interiors, so it’s no surprise that an ideabook with a decorator’s top paint picks for the home (complete with paint names and numbers) is the most popular on Houzz.

We’ve all heard of gray and beige as great color choices, but what about greige? Get the breakdown of popular shades and how and where to use them.

Get all the paint names and numbers


2. Homeowner’s Workbook: How to Remodel Your Kitchen

Kitchen remodeling will likely forever be one of the most popular topics of interest for homeowners. The kitchen is one of the most frequently used rooms in the house and oftentimes the hub of activity for the family. But navigating the process of remodeling a kitchen can be daunting. This ideabook proposes nine steps to help, with links to more details on each stage of the process.

Get the guide and save it to your Houzz bookmarks



3. Taste the Rainbow: 11 Top Home Decorating Colors and How to Use Them

Once again color captured readers’ attention. Here bolder colors, including orange, pink and purple, are explored.

Click through our guides to top decorating color groups


4. 30 Beautifully Inventive DIY Christmas Decorations

This ideabook touches on two things that almost every homeowner can get behind: making crafts and celebrating a holiday. Christmas is the focus of these wonderfully bright and cost-friendly decorations.

See all 30 DIY Christmas decorations


5. 12 Great Kitchen Styles — Which One’s for You?

Most people know what they like when they see it. But communicating tastes isn’t so easy. Farmhouse, rustic, modern, Paris bistro — which kitchen style truly speaks to you? This ideabook will help steady your inner design compass.

Find your kitchen style


6. Mood Makers: Luxurious Looks on a Budget

As a designer recently put it to me: We all want champagne taste on a beer budget. This ideabook explores just that by looking at how to get high-end looks in your home without breaking the bank.

Learn the budget-saving tips


7. The Top 10 Home Tours on Houzz

Funny, a Top 10 list within a Top 10 list. Why not? Here we compiled the most popular Houzz Tours ever featured, from a Southern-belle-style home in Georgia to a former auto body garage in Salt Lake City. Its popularity hinges on one of the most basic human desires: to peek inside strangers’ homes.

Check out all 10 Houzz Tours


8. Convert Your Tub Space to a Shower — the Planning Phase

A practical, functional solution to a spatial problem will always earn a lot of looks. From measuring your bathroom to choosing lighting and a tile layout, this ideabook will help you kick-start your plan to replace your bathtub with a shower.

Start planning your shower now


9. Your Guide to 15 Popular Kitchen Countertop Materials

As far as kitchen countertop materials go, you’ve got about as many options as there are ingredients in your fridge and pantry. This ideabook provides details on the costs and benefits of some of the most popular ones.

Get the guide and save it to your Houzz bookmarks


10. 8 Great Kitchen Cabinet Color Palettes

The last thing you want is a kitchen that kills your appetite. To develop a good palette, you’ll want to pick cabinets, countertops and flooring that all complement one another. Here are eight great combinations to consider, plus how to paint your cabinets yourself.

Discover these great colors

Find What You Need in the Houzz Ideabooks Section

You can search the archives of our 10,000 (and counting) ideabooks at any time by clicking Ideabooks at the top of the page and by using the search bar.

Find ideabooks via search: For example, search for “kitchen cabinets” (in quotation marks) and you’ll get results for hundreds of featured ideabooks and guides about home design and remodeling, including Your Guide to Choosing Kitchen Cabinets and How to Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets.

Browse by category: You can also browse ideabooks by design topic. Click Ideabooks at the top of the page, then choose from the categories on the left-hand side: Houzz Tours, Bathrooms, Remodeling, Decorating and more.

For fun: Enter the Fun Houzz section for some of our most popular and quirkiest ideabooks, including The Unicorn in the Bathtub — and Other Mind-Blowing Sights; Inside the Mind of a Designer, in Diagrams; and What Chihuahuas Can Teach Us About Interior Design.

More: Find popular articles and guides on Houzz

Your turn: What’s at the top of your bookmarks list?

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