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A pH testing kit from Cornell Cooperative Extension. (photo by Will Dendis Master Gardeners are trained volunteers who receive research-based...

Catherine Paplin’s Woodstock project. (photo by Will Dendis) Last year we asked three local architects to tell us about a...

Andirons by Woodstock artist Eugenie Gershoy. (photo by Will Dendis) “That’s a New York State leg,” says Tom Luciano, proprietor...

A Woodstock home was transformed through creative use of existing space. Good design transforms even uninspired architecture, converting dark, claustrophobic...

Clockwise from top-left: glass, metal, faux-wood and patterned ceramic. The most effective way to make a bold visual statement in...

Collector Tom Pfeffer is the owner of Kingston’s Jacob Ten Broeck House. (photo by Will Dendis) If real-estate investor Tom...

When the housing bubble burst, the free-flowing money used to finance a home shut down to a trickle. After a...

Sheets and bedspreads make great curtains, as demonstrated by this bedspread repurposed as a sumptuous swag. Spring is a time...

You can save the seeds from heirloom vegetables and flowers and they’ll produce true-to-seed the next year, unlike the hybrids....

Insulating shades are designed to replace venetian blinds with a fabric made of bonded polyester, structured with cells that trap...

Interior of a Catskill Farms’ home. Charles Petersheim didn’t know a soul in the Catskills when he left New York...

Photo by Will Dendis Does Saugerties need 55 more units of affordable rental housing? Some local landlords say no and...

The frame of a Matt Rogers yurt. (Photo by Lauren Thomas) Among the flags of the long-shot nations competing in...

A straw bale house by Ben Simpson. (Photo by Rich O’Corozine) I was intrigued when I first saw photos of...

Elisa Pritzker’s home office. (photo by Will Dendis) While many of us can get by with a couple of designated...

Singer C.J Cole with Rayann. (photo by Will Dendis) “Most people only wear about 20 out of 100 items in...

We all think of spring cleaning as a common phenomenon, with even the most clutter-hoarding folks wanting to throw open...

Photo by Phyllis McCabe The Hudson Valley gave birth to the nation’s first school of landscape painting and the first...

It’s been said that the most overlooked part of any home is the chimney. The last thing on our minds...

We all think of spring cleaning as a common phenomenon, with even the most clutter-hoarding folks wanting to throw open...