Forget sizing people up by their clothes, cars, or careers. You want to know someone? Look at their books. What people choose to fill...

As long as we’re celebrating the month of love, I thought this would be a good time to speak out on behalf of the 36 million singles out...

Here’s the problem with being a home design columnist who talks to a lot of creative people who have good taste and good ideas: Once you...

“Those TV home makeovers that happened in a one-hour episode? People don’t realize, I had a crew of 100, and it took us a week to do one...

“Here’s the dirty little secret,” one professional organizer said. (Doesn’t that expression just make you lean in?) “Professional...

One needs courage and more than a little trust to let an outsider come into her home to rifle through personal belongings with the goal...

When Cara Solomon, of Philadelphia, was moving into a new apartment 14 years ago, she knew one thing: She didn’t want to live like she’d...

The party had to end sometime. Now that the holidays are behind us, we must reconcile all the eating, buying, hedonism, and general...

For my second installment of the annual end-of-year-lessons-learned series, I pulled a handful of highlights from columns that ran during...

And now we come to the time of year where we look back at the last 50 columns, and revisit some of the standout moments. We’ve covered a...