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Q: In the January Cure I decided the design element I really wanted to work on was a picture display shelf. But I live in a rental that doesn't allow drilling. Is there some combination of Command hooks, Monkey Hooks, an...

Ancient arts drew John Marshall as a teen to Tokyo, half a world away from home. In Japan, the Florin, Calif., native learned traditional textile techniques perfected over centuries. He…

Real-time pedestrian data can help police with crowd control, inform future city planning decisions, and even help you avoid waiting in line. Placemeter is a startup that's using New York's traffic cams to analyze real-t...

Q: My 5-year-old is the youngest of my three children. Her older boy-girl twin siblings outshine her athletically. They're already very skilled at wakeboarding and snow skiing, for example. I…

The confusion about wedding customs began before Robert even had a chance to propose to my sister.

By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI, Feb 17

If you're familiar with Baker Furniture, you may have fallen in love with the elegant lines of Thomas Pheasant's collection. Thomas's career as an interior and furniture designer spans 30 years, and his inspiration and s...

Looking to live large in Alabama? This Versailles-style manse in Shoal Creek is the largest listing in the United States. The main house is 54,400 square feet, but with an equestrian lounge and two guest houses, the size...

The new show at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is wild and windy, living up to a title so long and full of fanfare that it practically demands its own paragraph. Ladies and gentlemen: "We Are Proud to Present a Presentat...

Capitals player Brooks Laich has been spending some of his off-ice time during the break for the Olympic winter games with triple threat dancer-actress-singer Julianne Hough. Paparazzi snaps showed the two in classic cut...

There's little chance for another mob scene outside the Washington courthouse for R&B singer Chris Brown's court date on Thursday -- or at any rate, if his fans do show up, they're likely to be disappointed, since a judg...

I've always thought that the best House Tours on Apartment Therapy are the ones that clearly reflect individual styles and tastes. These looks into others' homes definitely inspire us all to want to create spaces that sh...

FRIENDS FROM FOUR continents planning visits to the U.S. have asked me what upcoming museum shows are likely to be must-sees. Here's my current list of these shows, which happen to feature an unusually strong selection o...

Hey, isn't that White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and his family checking out the much buzzed about "Portrait of America" interactive sculpture by artist David Datuna at the National Portrait Gallery on Sunday. ...

With a wedding just six months away I'm debating what to DIY and what to dedicate what's left of my budget to. While sites like Pinterest can make the most complicated projects seem "totally doable," we've all seen the P...

A few of my friends have recently gone through some trying times after purchasing short-sale (or even normal, every day) homes and ending up with problems beyond what they could have imagined. Meth use and home meth labs...

I'm always on the look out for cheap DIY art that looks good enough to hang. It doesn't get more stylish or more affordable than these five, which can easily be done for $60 (and in most cases for much, much less). If yo...

In the past I wasn't big on floral prints, gravitating instead toward stripes or geometric prints. Lately, though, I've been loving them. I especially like all the beautifully classic rose prints that are popping up -- t...

MultipliCITY is a new line of sustainable public furniture that hopes to improve cyclists' off-bike experiences. Created by Fuseproject and Landscape Forms, the furniture adds shelves to bike racks, so that you can set d...

ABC perfected the Olympic storytelling style more than four decades ago by producing "up-close-and-personal" features about the games' competitors -- heartwarming stories that emphasized athletes' personal sacrifice, fam...

ABC perfected the Olympic storytelling style more than four decades ago by producing "up-close-and-personal" features about the games' competitors -- heartwarming stories that emphasized athletes' personal sacrifice, fam...

What's beautiful to you? A sunset? The face of a loved one? A favorite poem or song? Mathematicians sometimes say they find beauty in mathematical formulas, and a new brain scan study confirms that equations can activate...