Before (obviously!) After Many people talk about clearing out and organizing their homes. Few actually do it. The ones who do usually...

Before painting. After painting. When my husband and I bought a beach vacation condo last fall, we knew the place needed work. But...

Friends! My newest book, Rightsize Today to Create Your Best Life Tomorrow , is now available as an audiobook . My publisher has given me...

Occasionally, I get a call for help from a reader whose situation has all the markings of a class action suit, that is, one person acting...

Like many green, budget-minded consumers, Fayre Makeig, of Belfast, Maine, furnishes her home only with secondhand furniture. “I can’t...

I know you’re going to make fun of me, so let’s just get this over with. I bought art on a cruise ship. Okay, laugh. While gallery owners...

When most expectant parents would be nesting, my daughter and her husband tore out their kitchen. Sawdust swirled and workers buzzed...

She wouldn’t be my daughter if she weren’t undergoing a major home remodel in her third trimester of pregnancy. But here we were. I still...

Love longs for closeness, but desire thrives on distance. —    Esther Perel, Belgian psychotherapist and author of “Mating in Captivity”...

When my daughter and son-in-law bought their first home together two years ago, the young couple had three dreams: a new kitchen, a nicer...