Design outlet focused on modern architecture, interiors, and urban living. Freelance contributions are usually pitch-based and favor reporting, profiles, and trend coverage in contemporary design.

For more than 20 years, Dwell has championed home design that improves people’s lives. We feature new ideas about what a home can and should be, offer expert advice for making your own space a better place to live, and provide a marketplace for the best-designed products available. In everything we do, we advocate for design that is:
Humanistic: It responds to the needs of real people and frames new ways of living.
Forward-looking: It embraces new building methods and improves its social and ecological context.
Optimistic: It embodies our core belief that design can shape a better world. 

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Before & After — This series places photos side-by-side to document the renovation process.
Budget Breakdown — This series covers a wide range of projects, from new home builds, to renovations, to garage conversions, and should reveal the literal cost it takes to make design dreams happen—in your pitch, please include a detailed list of costs, including a grand total. (For more information on how we source and fact check Budget Breakdowns, go here.)
My House — This Q&A series is focused on creatives with personality-driven homes that reflect their lifestyles, work, and distinct tastes. We talk to them about how they designed their spaces, and the elements that reflect their unique sensibilities.
Rental Revamp — Just because you’re renting your home doesn’t mean you can’t customize your space. Tell us how you went about your transformation, from cost-saving DIY hacks, to interior design tips, to landlord-friendly upgrades.
Real Estate — Dwell features architecturally significant homes for sale; our most recent real estate stories are a mix of covetable midcentury homes, artist’s lofts, celebrity listings, and more. To have a property featured, email realestate@dwell.com.
Design News — From fairs, to product launches, to new ideas in prefab, to Sami Reiss’s column Field Guide, our coverage features the latest goings-on in the world of home design and beyond.
Prefab and Tiny Home Profiles — An in-depth look at the companies producing prefabricated houses and pint-size dwellings around the world.

Design

You Lived Where?—a series about compromise, creativity, and the places people have called home.
One Night In, a series about staying in the most unparalleled places available to rest your head.
Different Strokes, a look at unique home design choices that beg for further explanation.

The Trend Times, Alana Hope Levinson’s column that explores design fads in the age of doomscrolling.

Culture

Photography Illustration Video

How They Pulled It Off, which takes a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and gets the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality.

Guides

The Real Homes of Real Architects
We’re Off to See the Waltons
Would-Be Congressman Greg Casar Is Worried About Where He’s Going to Live, Too
The Pendleton Problem: When Does Cultural Appreciation Tip Into Appropriation?
What Do Monuments Mean to Us?
Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?
Young Adults Who Moved Home During COVID-19 Are Making Over Their Childhood Rooms—and Their Mindsets
An Oral History of the Parklet 
The Corporations Quietly Buying Up Altadena

New Initiatives and Leaders Are Bringing Power and Profits to America’s Crafting Communities

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