Smart built-ins, natural light, strong color contrast and personal touches create a functional and stylish workspace

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

The perfect rug may be all you need to complete your decor with color, texture and coziness. Here’s how to select the right type

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

Get the dimensions that will let you fit one or more cars in your garage, plus storage and other needs

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

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

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

This color combo evokes clear skies and golden beaches and can bring cheer to even the gloomiest days

Learn the basic dimensions that will allow good circulation, flow and balance as you fit in all the furnishings you want