When you see a nice handmade sweater, you know it took a while to make.The knitting or crocheting is just part of it. (A fun online calculator at...
Perched atop churches, barns, businesses, homes and seats of government, weather vanes have over hundreds of years taken the form of everything...
If ever a 22-inch square of cotton could tell stories, it would be the bandana.This simple piece of cloth has swabbed the sweat off the brows of...
In this winter of hunkering down at home, there’s a trend that’s just right for the times: quilts as decor and as art.An artistic quilt might be...
Along with bread-baking and closet reorganizing, another nesting trend on the home front is “cottagecore” style.“The cottagecore aesthetic swarmed...
Squeezing the most out of summer – especially this coronavirus summer – has often meant eating and entertaining outside, for those with the space...
Barbecue season couldn’t be more welcome this year.Grilling is a way to change things up and expand the menu and the view for those stuck at home...
An early, painted Swedish sideboard next to a leather sectional. An ornate Italian walnut headboard on a bed dressed in featherweight linen. A...
If you’re looking for respite from this winter’s weather and news, you’ll find plenty of peace and quiet in the spring offerings beginning to show...
The ceiling – sometimes referred to as a room’s fifth wall – often gets short shrift in decorating schemes. Walls and furnishings take center stage...
In their new book, Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide (Abrams, 2019), woodworkers Alan Solomon and Klaas Armster close with an imagined recounting of...