Remember when the trend was to use vinyl covers to keep furniture clean? They worked - until someone poked a hole in them. (OK, it was me but it was an accident.)
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ORLANDO A lifetime's accumulation of furnishings, pictures and photographs greeted Troy Beasley and his design team when they arrived to redecorate a luxury condominium in Winter Park, Fla., recently.
Question: My wife and I are waking up with spider bites on our legs. My wife, who gets most of the bites, wants to spray for spiders around the house. Is this a good idea?
Q. I have beautiful hardwood floors and love to keep a nice shine on them. What is the best way to care for these floors? -M. Harris
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An unlikely international superstar is emerging in full bloom, offering a newly affordable home luxury in an era of tight money.
We're taking questions today that continue the topic "Getting your house ready for winter."
Q: We moved into a new house a few months ago and the lighting in here is just terrible. I'd like to get someone to do some remodeling and make our rooms brighter, but don't know where to begin. Any suggestions for us?
DETROIT Hours after a second Pontiac, Mich., teen was convicted Wednesday in the stomping death of a homeless man, a third youth police had sought for more than a year in connection with the killing was arraigned.
PHILADELPHIA The Senate on Wednesday reached a compromise on extending the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, a boost the housing industry believes will help it pull out of its two-year-old downturn.
PHILADELPHIA Surprising some housing-industry analysts, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday that September's new-home sales fell 3.6 percent from August and 7.8 percent from September 2008.
Author and interior designer Kerrie Kelly finds inspiration all over Northern California.
Saving, swapping, and propagating seeds spreads the wealth, connecting gardeners to all four seasons.
With the gruesome state of the economy, even the bravest among us are a little spooked about spending money on things that aren't really necessary.
Interior designer Barbara Barry's style evokes classic Hollywood stars Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn: serene, sophisticated, timeless. The female form inspires her furniture designs.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. They were nine corporate funders, executives who help decide where their company's philanthropy goes, walking the same route hundreds of Charlotte, N.C.'s working poor and homeless take every day.
Moving? Here's some advice on hiring movers from the book "How to Survive a Move" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $13.95), straight from people who've done it:
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