Keep the peace while maintaining a tidy home, with these ideas to get all kinds of cleaning personality types in on the act

See how the Mac and iPod aesthetic synchs up with today's house

We click open invitations and RSVP via text, but a handwritten thank-you is sometimes still best. Here's how to tell

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

Design advice, inspiration and observations that struck a chord this week

Design — and the desire for more space — turns humble garages into gracious living rooms

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

A main house’s patio uses a wall of the property’s secondary unit to help create a private outdoor living space

If workers around your home are doing things that bother you, there’s a diplomatic way to approach them

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