Tag: Home Improvement

(Wikicommons) Elisabeth Henry comes to terms with big machines   The spring was already there, bubbling over rocks to a ...

Photo by Luis Perez “I am two with nature.” -Woody Allen   Whether you’re nervous about embarking on a full-on ...

Use natural materials for planters. (photo by Will Dendis) When recent hurricanes devastated the area, many homes and ecosystems were ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Photo by Peggy Fusco Gardening is always an iffy proposition. You plant tomatoes in one spot, and they drown from ...

Reclaimed and treated barn boards add unique accents When Rocking Horse Ranch owners Gloria Turk and her husband Toolie were ...

Asking an architect about their favorite project is an unfair question, like asking a parent which of their children they ...

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses! – “Bread and Roses,” James Oppenheim, 1911 ...

With spring on its way, you may be looking to make some fresh changes to your home. One quick way ...

I experienced that memorable moment of transition, a violent initiation from naïveté into a dark new world filled with awareness, ...

“The fellow that owns a home is always just coming out of a hardware store.” Kin Hubbard   Declutter your ...

Well, if you’re tired of hearing and thinking about Irene and Lee (and it’s surprising that no one has written ...

When she put her house on the market, Dena Roy had already downsized, moving a lot of her personal stuff ...

Photo by Deena Feinberg Stone-wall building is a dying art. Manufactured materials, comprised of cement, are cheaper substitutes; easier to ...

The way Rosalyn Cherry sees it, having too much stuff in your house isn’t just about looks. A cluttered space ...