Decorating has once again become informal, like the “country furniture” era in the 1980s that led to rooms with “non-furniture furniture.” An old cobbler’s bench became a coffee table, a cranberry ...

One of my most prized possessions is an antique wooden filing cabinet that belonged to my great grandfather. He used it to keep patients’ records (he was a doctor here in Chicago); I use it to store ...

Sometimes, finding just the right piece of furniture for just the right price can be frustratingly difficult. You can spend so much time searching, and when you finally find the right piece that ...

But while I was at the hardware store last week, I decided to pick up a gallon of Strypeeze (not to be confused with an alternative spelling of "striptease," although I did a double-take the first ...

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