Alyssa Gautieri

Alyssa Gautieri is Senior Gifts Editor at Good Housekeeping, where she leads the brand’s gift guide strategy and oversees commerce content tied to home, real estate and lifestyle coverage. Her work focuses on which upgrades, products and everyday systems genuinely improve a home’s function, appeal and long‑term value. She combines expert insight, testing data and trend awareness to show how design choices, gifts and habits fit into the broader story of a property.

Home and Real Estate Upgrades

Gautieri’s real estate coverage centers on practical home improvements, with a strong emphasis on kitchens and high‑impact living spaces. In pieces like her guidance from real estate professionals on which kitchen upgrades are “totally worth it,” she breaks down which changes matter most for resale and daily use, translating expert advice into concrete project lists and product picks. She extends this approach to the rest of the home with service pieces on bedroom accent wall ideas, tricks to make any room look bigger, and spice rack organization that maximizes small kitchens while keeping them market‑ready.

She consistently treats the home as an asset and a lived‑in space at once. Articles on outdoor kitchens that feel like luxury villas, solariums that elevate a backyard, raised garden bed ideas and tiny homes that turn a yard into a retreat all weigh cost, style and practicality together. Backyard structures show up frequently in her work, from glamping tents and yurts to houseboats and reading sheds, each framed as a way to add usable square footage, atmosphere and potential value to a property.

Across these stories, she reflects a real estate lens that is grounded in specific upgrades, clear photos, and shoppable details rather than market data or deal‑making.

Gift Guides and Shoppable Home Finds

Gift coverage is a defining strand in Gautieri’s work. As Senior Gifts Editor, she leads Good Housekeeping’s year‑round gift guide strategy, analyzing lifestyle trends and shopping data while working closely with the Good Housekeeping Institute to recommend top‑tested products. Her guides span broad categories like popular gifts for 2026, thoughtful gifts for her, and gifts teens say they actually want, as well as more targeted lists such as July birthday gifts, gifts under $30 and under‑$50 Prime Day gift deals.

Each guide balances trendiness, utility and price, often highlighting bedroom décor, home accessories and wellness items that also function as small upgrades to a recipient’s space.

Beyond traditional gifts, Gautieri spotlights buzzy, big‑ticket home products. She writes about viral appliances like Dash’s ice cream maker, infrared saunas that double as décor, bubble houses that look futuristic and modern tiny homes sold as kits.

These stories combine product testing with vivid lifestyle framing, showing where a piece might sit in a home, how it changes the feel of a room or yard, and why it has captured shoppers’ attention. Her gift and shopping coverage is distinguished by its integration with home and real estate themes: a “gift” might be a backyard cottage, a reading shed or an outdoor shower, and she treats each with the same rigor as a smaller consumer good.

Organizing and Everyday Systems

Organizing and decluttering form another core thread of her beat. Gautieri regularly features professional organizers and cleaning experts, translating their guidance into step‑by‑step systems for keeping homes efficient and appealing. Stories like “Professional Organizers Say It’s Time to Let Go of These Household Items” and “Pro Organizers Share the Simple Pantry Tricks They Swear By” focus on editing possessions, optimizing storage and maintaining kitchens and pantries that support both daily life and long‑term property value.

She pairs these expert‑driven pieces with practical formats such as spice rack organization ideas and easy ways to clean oven racks, presenting clear, manageable tasks rather than abstract philosophy.

She also uses first‑person reporting to test popular methods, as in her review of the four‑box decluttering method. In that piece and others, she documents what happened in her own home, how long the process took, and which steps actually made a difference, adding credibility and detail to otherwise generic advice. Her organizing coverage extends into the digital realm, with guidance on recognizing and fixing phone clutter, underscoring her belief that clutter - physical or digital - affects how people experience their homes and financial lives.

Together, these stories position her as a reporter of everyday systems that keep a property orderly, attractive and easier to manage.

Lifestyle Experiments and Green Living

Gautieri often experiments with lifestyle strategies tied to money and home habits, then reports her findings. In her account of using the 48‑hour rule before making non‑essential purchases, she tracks what she did not buy and how much she saved in a month, connecting impulse control directly to the budget available for more meaningful home investments. This kind of narrative complements her service journalism, adding specific numbers and scenarios to broader guidance about spending and consumption.

Green living and gardening also feature prominently in her work.

She writes about what to plant in October for a thriving garden, low‑maintenance perennial flowers and fresh raised garden bed ideas that are easy to DIY, all designed to help homeowners build outdoor spaces that feel intentional and long‑lasting. In a detailed piece on propagating favorite houseplants, she outlines cuttings, leaf propagation and care routines step by step, showing how a home can become lush without constant new purchases. Earlier work includes guidance on air‑purifying plants that refresh different rooms, reinforcing her focus on accessible, plant‑based ways to improve indoor environments.

Her background includes years of writing and editing lifestyle content for home and design publications such as ELLE Decor, Chairish, Bob Vila, Unique Homes Magazine and Lodging Magazine, as well as crafting product copy for home brands, which underpins her ability to connect aesthetics, function and consumer detail in every story.