Thank trees for providing a place for kids to climb and build forts, for being a cover for your picnic and a post for your hammock,

It’s just stuff, the decluttering experts and articles tell you. Well, I say, it’s not just stuff. And now I have backup.

An advanced copy of “Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century,” (Phaidon, May 22), recently landed on my doorstep. It is the fanciest..

Ah spring! The season of hay fever, taxes and deep cleaning. Yuck. Besides the general housekeeping that I know you do on a regular basis

I never set out to be the poster mom for blended families. DC and I were both married before, for happily ever after. My marriage hit the...

One of the beauties of my reality home design column is that I make mistakes, so you don’t have to.

How do you not admire a woman who can operate a power tool like that while wearing a dress?

Houseplants and I have a spotty record. Their survival around my place is hit and miss, mostly miss.

I know. I know. You’re tired of my harangue always telling you to let go of stuff, get rid of clutter, clean house and downsize.

I am a sucker for quizzes. What career should you actually have? (Writer. Phew!) What city should you live in? (Paris. I know.)