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

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

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

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

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

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

Cup plant provides structure, cover, food and water to help attract and sustain wildlife in the eastern North American garden

West Coast natives: The blue flowers of drought-tolerant ceanothus draw the eye and help support local wildlife too

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