“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I will let you know what I do. I stare out the window and await spring.” — Rogers Hornsby The wait is over! Forget Punxsutawney Phil and the vernal equinox; at America, the first crack of the bat marks the start of [...]

Some housekeeping novels read like a beautiful daydream. Imagine having the opportunity to dust under the furniture, rotate mattresses such as clockwork and wash the refrigerator coils! To be quite frank, I can’t remember the last time that I did some of these things, and I refuse to feel awful about it. If your days [...]

What exactly do a Northwest garage, a Pennsylvania “hobbit house” along with a rustic French cabin have in common? Not much, at first glance. However, these amazing homes compose a few of the best Tours that readers considered worthy of bookmarking last year. While each one of these homes are beautiful in their own right, [...]

The website of Revolutionary War–era love, tasty fox-hunt teas and formal piano recitals, this 1787 Georgian farmhouse brims with classic ambiance and charm. The house had been vacant for years when Barry Barton and David Ferrini first seen the inside on a dark winter night. “We ceased to close a door left open by the [...]

Brad and Tiffany Ross believe there’s a place where Versailles, granny posh and midcentury modern can all live together. As owners of Swanky Couch, a vintage furniture dealing and styling company, they applied this decorating combination to their Frisco, Texas, home. They gutted and remodeled everything out of the bathrooms, garage and terrace to the [...]

My favourite thing about traditional English country style is that it may feel formal or casual. Its origins date back hundreds of years into the cottages of farming communities from the English countryside. English nation–fashion decor is collected over time. Colours are mostly natural and muted. I love to find a little chance of yellow [...]

Initially created for Victorian houses, flat-sawn balusters communicate a fantastic conservative feel in a home. Often referred to as gingerbread or paper doll balustrades, these ornamental railing features are most frequently found on historical residences, wrapping around porches, balconies and interior staircases. Naturally resistant to rust, flat-sawn balusters are precision cut from lasting woods, like [...]

Sometimes it’s simply not possible to share the TV. What is a family to do if one member is pulling for reruns of Seinfeld, and the other one is rooting for your Kardashians? If you are discovering that remote-control wars are becoming common in your living area, it can be time to change this unused [...]

If you purchased an older house, you likely did so for its appeal, history and perhaps its location at a neighborhood lined with huge old trees. Since the owner of a 1940s Tudor, I really like my house for all those reasons … and just put up with the truth that our “master” bathroom is [...]

Since I have been on a search to find the ideal lantern pendants for my kitchen, I believed it would be interesting to assemble a collection of some of the very best on the net. I really like that lanterns — although frequently thought of as conventional — can do the job nicely in just [...]