Prevent home break-ins with strategic landscaping and good practices instead of menacing — and maybe less effective — measures

Save your sanity and your decorating budget by choosing materials and surfaces that can stand up to abuse

Take your kitchen up a notch even if it will never reach top-of-the-line, with these cheap and easy decorating ideas

While you dream of having a maid (to go with the cook and chauffer), this simplified cleaning routine can keep your real-world home tidy

Suggestions from someone who lost her home to fire — and experienced the staggering generosity of community

Make a utilitarian mudroom snazzier and better organized with these cheap and easy ideas

Adjusting mind-sets along with furniture may be the key to happiness for tiny-home dwellers

Green up your landscape even if you're short on time, money and knowledge, with these manageable steps for first-time gardeners

Make overnight guests feel comfy and cozy with small, inexpensive niceties

Artwork can bring together the elements of a room by being a focal point, a color inspiration, a harmonizer and more