Add an exotic touch with Moroccan tiles in everything from intricate patterns and rich colors to subtle, luminous neutrals

Checkerboard Patterns Go From Casual to Ritzy, From Marble to Grass

Leaf blowers, trucks or noisy neighbors driving you berserk? These sound-reduction strategies can help you hush things up

Great design stimulates all the senses, including touch. Check out these great uses of texture, then let your fingers do the walking

Talk about convenience. Better yet, get it yourself after being inspired by this Texas bath

Set the right mood, focus a view or highlight architecture with long, narrow windows sited just so on a wall

Aluminum doors, porcelain tiles, polished concrete. Here are the features and finishes this professional returns to time and again

Share pictures of your home and yard this summer — we’d love to feature them in an upcoming story

Maintain peace and maybe even inspire togetherness with decorating strategies from a designer with seven grandchildren