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Lake IL
My client had a very pleasing, open living room but felt it wasn’t quite right. When I asked her how she used the space she said, “We don’t! No one feels like using it, and our guests seem to avoid it, too.”
Her family members entered the front door and walked...
My client had a very pleasing, open living room but felt it wasn’t quite right. When I asked her how she used the space she said, “We don’t! No one feels like using it, and our guests seem to avoid it, too.”
Her family members entered the front door and walked...
As millions of Americans struggle with declining home values and rising foreclosure rates, many are rediscovering the benefits of renting.
By trading in their mortgages for monthly payments to their landlords, renters sidestep a host of hassles including property taxes, homeowner's...
Are you getting a little tired of the 15-year-old furniture arrangement in the living room? Perhaps you’d like to give your home a fresh look, but you can’t afford to buy even one new chair, much less bear the cost of a complete redecoration. Or you’ve just moved into a new...
Hampton Lake, a 908-home subdivision in Bluffton, S.C., is a gated private community, but in recent months residents have seen outsiders strolling around as if they owned the place.
The visitors, usually couples with their children in tow, come and eat the food the residents have...
“When my guests come over they always walk right by my living room. No one ever wants to sit with me!” complained my client. Although there was plenty of seating and her arrangement honored the traditional focal point, her guests tended to shy away from the fireplace area. She...
Thomas Dolan thinks that it’s smart to work in the same building that they live in.
Paying twice as much as you need to in energy-related costs is just “silly and wasteful,” argues Dolan, an Oakland, Calif. architect who founded the nonprofit Live/Work...
Françoise E. Paradis grew tired of living in a big house surrounded by people she barely knew in an area where the pace of life was too fast.
She wanted, instead, to live in a more serene place where she could be part of a real community. She wanted to know her neighbors well and to...
Frugal decorators enjoy expressing their creativity using unusual objects in unusual places. Why buy decor when it's so fun to scrounge for it or make it from what you already have? In my never-ending search for places to display all my cool stuff I have recently focused on two...
Life, as they say, is filled with difficult choices. Paper or plastic? Blonde or brunette? Chocolate or vanilla? Home-equity loan or home-equity line of credit?
Whether you’re looking for extra cash to remodel your house or need extra help purchasing a newer one, a home-equity line...