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...

He’s barely bigger than a sack of flour, but he effortlessly runs the house. A precious, commanding, endearing, fascinating wonder, this...

Ten years ago, when clearing out my parents’ home of 50 years, I had no idea what I was getting into, let alone what I was doing. I had...

In the world of art and design are two schools of thought. On one side are those who create or sell art. Artists and gallery owners, for...

My mission became to find a sofa that would do all that and also look pretty.