Michael J. Fox recently released a new memoir called "Always Looking Up" and a similarly upbeat TV special called “Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.” I caught part of the show the other… More

My husband and I have owned our home for five years. It was the quintessential fixer-upper when we plopped down our enormous down payment, each room presenting us a design and restoration challenge, and… More

Here's a shout out to our favorite room in the house: The kitchen. And the reason that yellow kitchen is so appealing? Color affects our mood. Yellow = happy. But what about green? Orange? How do we react… More

Growers and Nomads has hundreds of experts at our disposal. Ask us anything to do with home improvement, no matter how arcane. We'll track down an answer. Q: If the exterior of your house is dirty, must… More

No, I'm not teasing you. This article is about nakedness. But it's about stripping down a house...so that she transforms into a newly painted showpiece. The picture above shows one of hundreds of blisters… More

For a year, my husband and I looked for a weekend home in the Lake Isabella, California, area (three hours from Los Angeles). What we wanted most of all was a home that looked like a vacation cabin, not… More