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Motherly Advice on Life and Home You Didn’t Ask For
Don’t talk with your mouth full. Stand up to shake hands. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. One benefit of being...

Marni Jameson
May 23, 2022


Put Down the Drill and No One Gets Hurt
I used to think there was nothing sexier than seeing my husband walk through the house with a toolkit and ladder on his way to do a home...

Marni Jameson
May 16, 2022


Celebrity “Fixer” Seeks Help to Downsize and Fix Up a Fixer
Before COVID hit, Howard Bragman had two houses and a spouse. Today the celebrity crisis manager, known for cleaning up some of...

Marni Jameson
May 9, 2022


Property Brothers’ New Furniture Reveals Twins’ Differences
Half the fun of watching “Property Brothers” — the HGTV reality series where identical twins Drew and Jonathan Scott convince homebuyers...

Marni Jameson
May 2, 2022


Tackling Pet 'Fur'stration and More Tips for Living with Pets
“Would you please stop shedding?” I beg Luke, our 55-pound hound mix (Great Pyrenees, German Shepherd, Chow Chow, Bassett hound and a few...

Marni Jameson
Apr 25, 2022


Home Buying in a Sellers’ Market
I went house hunting last weekend. No, not for me. I tagged along with my daughter and her fiancé, who are moving from Texas to Colorado...

Marni Jameson
Apr 18, 2022


Handmade Quilts Soften Edges in High-Tech Homes
I don’t know about you, but my weekly screentime hours are embarrassingly excessive. The more attention I pay to my electronic devices,...

Marni Jameson
Apr 11, 2022


Feeling Crafty? 7 Tips to Setting up a Home Hobby Room
“A room of one’s own,” author Virginia Woolf declared back in 1929 was a must if a woman was going to be a writer. Nearly 100 years...

Marni Jameson
Apr 4, 2022


Pandemic Prompts Big Boom in Homemade Crafts
And here’s one more good result born out of the pandemic. Many more people started using their hands and hearts to make crafts at home....

Marni Jameson
Mar 28, 2022


Murphy Beds Go From Slapstick to Sophisticated
Just the name Murphy bed makes me laugh. It conjures memories of hilarious scenes in slapstick comedies, where the beds, possessed with...

Marni Jameson
Mar 21, 2022
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