7 ways to arrange your living-room furniture to avoid that bowling-alley look

Sit back and enjoy a crackling fire set to seasonal music and surrounded by ideas for your own dream living room

Quiet and serene, these spaces invite family and friends to congregate

Foster teamwork and a sense of ownership about housekeeping to lighten your load and even boost togetherness

Do you have a desk area hiding in plain sight? These stylish work perches give rooms extra purpose

Move over, beige. Green is staking its claim as the freshest neutral around

Make small changes to increase the joy in your kitchen while you cook and bake, without shelling out lots of dough

Forget fusty and dusty. Secondhand finds in this home are as bright and cheery as if they just stepped off the showroom floor

You post them, email them, maybe even print them out. But if your digital and printed photos are all lumped together, it's time to organize

Be a rock star, a crafting star, a movie mogul. But whatever you'd choose for your spare room, don't let reality stop you