Author name: Jane McKenna

Jane covers interior design, room-by-room planning, and the organizational side of home improvement for Decor Modern. Her articles help homeowners decide how a space should look and function before they start buying materials. Jane's path to home improvement writing started in set design for small theater productions in New England — a job that taught her how to make any room feel intentional on almost no budget. She transitioned into residential interior consulting, working with homeowners on kitchen layouts, bedroom makeovers, and practical space planning that doesn't require an architect. After five years of in-person consultations, she began writing to reach people who couldn't afford a designer but still wanted thoughtful guidance. Over the course of her consulting work, she has worked with dozens of homeowners on kitchen layouts, bedroom redesigns, and space planning decisions — often within tight budgets and existing structural constraints. On Decor Modern, she writes the interior design styles guide, the bedroom and living room articles, and the kitchen remodel planning series. Her approach is pragmatic: she cares more about whether your kitchen layout actually works for cooking than whether it follows a trend. Her work focuses on functional design — layouts that improve how a space is actually used day-to-day, not just how it looks in photos. Jane is based in Connecticut, in a 1920s colonial that she and her husband have been updating room by room since they bought it — "slowly, and with a lot of opinions from each other."

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