Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Wright-Ryan Homes
The Top 10 New Patios and Decks of 2025
This Trending Now story features the most-saved new patio and deck photos uploaded to Houzz since Jan. 1, 2025. If you’re looking to refresh your outdoor space, you’ll find plenty of inspiration in this countdown of 2025’s most-saved patios and decks. The spaces are in a range of sizes and styles, but all are designed to draw people outside and invite lingering.
How to Manage a Tricky Remodeling Client
How to Manage a Tricky Remodeling Client Follow these useful tips to avoid customer complaints, disputes and even unpaid invoices Amanda Pollard30 minutes ago Senior Editor at Houzz UK and Ireland. Journalist and editor specialising in interiors and architecture. There are many factors involved in a renovation project, and each one can prove problematic when it comes to completing the job without issues, but sometimes the biggest challenge is the customer themselves.
The 10 Most Popular New Outdoor Spaces So Far This Year
10. Fresh Farmhouse Feel Deign-build firm Celedon Sisters created this porch in Austin, Texas, for year-round entertaining and relaxing. The farmhouse-inspired design brings comfort and style with a vaulted wood ceiling, lighting, speakers, mounted fans and cushioned wicker furniture. Black-framed windows pop against the white wood siding, with expansive sliding doors facilitating a smooth indoor-outdoor connection. 9.
10 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Bedroom
Follow these tips to create the bedroom of your dreams without breaking the bank We spend roughly a third of our lives in our bedrooms, yet they tend to get short shrift when it comes to renovating budgets. Fortunately, whether your bedroom is big or small, these 10 relatively easy, inexpensive changes can make a big difference to how it looks and feels – and might even help you get better shut-eye.
Elephant Rock - Transitional - Family Room - Portland Maine - by Wright-Ryan Homes
My builder uses Houzz Pro to plan the timeline and give detailed estimates and daily updates with photos of progress, and provide invoices at pre-agreed key points in the build. This made the whole experience much more efficient and stress-free. Steve W. Client of Cribbs Construction Learn More
10 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Bedroom
1. Declutter and Deep-Clean A bedroom should be a sanctuary where you relax and recharge. But lying in bed looking at dust bunnies and piles of laundry tends to have the opposite effect. To create a soothing and sleep-inducing room, start by banishing the clutter and busting the dust. Go through your drawers and shelves and discard or donate anything that’s outlived its purpose or your taste. If you have a workstation in your bedroom, try to tuck away electronics and papers.
10 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Living Room
Are you looking to freshen up your living room decor or even give the room a completely new look? The good news is that you can make huge improvements without a full renovation or a big budget. Here are 10 simple but high-impact strategies for giving your living space a style upgrade. 1. Clean and Cull It can be easy to think you need to buy something to “fix” your living room. But sometimes when a room isn’t working, it needs less, not more.
Houzz Call: How Do You Prepare for Houseguests?
Avoiding Entry Chaos Keeping the house neat and organized with extra guests around starts at the door, especially during the colder season when lots of outerwear is required. How do you accommodate your guests’ coats, shoes, snowy boots, gloves, hats, bags and other items from taking over? Also, if you’re a no-shoes household, how do you enforce that rule? Do you tell your guests ahead of time? Do you provide slippers? A lot of us would like to learn how to do that gracefully.
The (Lost) Art of Laziness
1. Hang Out Hitch up a hammock or a swing seat. There’s nothing quite like spending a lazy afternoon lying outside on a warm day, perhaps reading a book, thinking about life and sipping a drink. 2. Write a Real Letter When was the last time you wrote or received a real letter? On paper and written by hand with a pen? For people of a younger generation, it might be never. It’s a shame, because it can be lovely to write a letter and receive one. 3.
To-Dos: Your September Home Checklist
Prep your home for cooler weather with these tasks to do in an hour, over a weekend and during the month Laura GaskillAugust 31, 2024 Houzz Contributor. I cover decorating ideas, Houzz tours & the monthly home maintenance checklist. My favorite pieces to write center around the emotional aspects of home and savoring life's simple pleasures.
7 Simple Ways to Give Your Home Office a Speedy Refresh
Home offices often are fairly low on the list of rooms or areas to refresh, even though many of us now work from home some of the time as well as regularly use these spaces to take care of finances and correspondence. But with some tidying up and design-led TLC, it’s easy to turn things around. These home offices — minus their electrical cords and everyday clutter for the photo shoots — show seven quick refreshes for your home office. Cummings Architects 2.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Wright-Ryan
Contact Wright-Ryan, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack