Homes

Professionals help dress up your digs for a party or real estate open house

Store's campaign aims to provide new blankets to homeless shelters

Unpleasant surprises resulted in unexpected expenses, but even that turned out to be a blessing in disguise

Discover the "extraordinary secrets of everyday trees" in a new book called Seeing Trees. Look closely at trees and you begin to notice the structure, including leaves, flowers, buds, leaf scars, twigs and bark.

Author Sheri Koones has long argued the merits of prefabricated homes. In her new book, Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid, she bolsters her case by focusing on the energy savings possible with factory construction.

Fall can be an incredible season of blooming shrubs in the landscape if you do a little planning. Right now, the Hana Jiman camellia's blossoms will stop you in your tracks.

For about 30 years, David and Carol Wolfe practiced benign neglect about the wooded areas of their nearly five-acre property in Barberton, Ohio. They mowed their lawn and tended to the landscaped areas.

Husband-and-wife designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz share the thought process behind their hip home-decorating style in their new book, Home By Novogratz.

Frilly kale takes a starring role, supported by violas, heathers and tough alyssum

Renovating a kitchen is the most disruptive and costly home project there is, other than major add-ons. And yet, for a busy family, this is the space where everyone meets and eats, at all hours of the day (and sometimes the night).