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Don’t Let Oriental Rug Sellers Pull Wool Over Your Eyes

The more I learn about Oriental rugs, the more baffled I get. In my experience, choosing one is the single most difficult home design...

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What’s Hiding in Your Rugs? Here’s How to Unlock the Dirt

Do you know what’s lurking in your area rugs? You probably don’t want to. Many are designed to hide your dirt, dust, and dander, and they...

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Got Pets? You Need These Cleaning Tips

“Is that what I think it is?” I ask my husband while zeroing in on a yellow, rainbow-shaped stain on the side of the white armchair....

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Rightsizing: Couple Buys Two Homes for Price of One

“I never thought I would want to leave my lake house,” Katie Seymour told me when I stopped by the Lake Mary, Fla., home she and her...

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Home Gyms on the Rise — Part Two

Fitting in a Home Gym Makes Fitting in a Workout Easier Like many devoted exercisers, my daughter and her husband bought exercise...

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Home Gyms on the Rise – Part One

Fit Technology Gives Home Workouts a Lift Though I cannot say many nice things about the pandemic, I will concede that it ushered in a...

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So You Want a Happy Home? Pour on the Color

I flip through a lot of home design books in this job. Frankly, most run together. In fact, collectively, they could all be one big...

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When Renting out Second Home, Sideline Your Emotions

I do not have a second home for the same reason I do not have a second husband. I can barely keep up with the one I have. But I have a...

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Going Up? Home Elevators Are on the Rise

Ann McGee loves her home. If you saw it, you would understand. Every room of the 2,800 square-foot Mediterranean-style house in Winter...

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Kitchen Backsplash Creates Waves

Before After I know, I know. You’re going to say I deserved this. Remember a few weeks ago when I rather smugly wrote about my kitchen...