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Project by: Ann Yu and Amber Tillman/AAID Location: New York City One of my good friends moved to New York earlier this year to pursue a new career and life in magical NYC so my design colleague and I wanted to kick off ...

Indigo might be the dark blue of the moment. However, it is nothing new to home interiors; it's a stylistic reincarnation of navy blue. Indigo and navy are both a dark blue bordering on black, but one color name is assoc...

The Creative Community for Peace was born officially with a full-page ad in the New York Times calling the "arts (to be) used to build bridges of peace" in Israel and Palestine, and perhaps the world. Certainly, there ca...

My enthusiasm for measuring things is something of a joke around my house. At any moment I might jump up, grab my tape measure, and start measuring walls, windows, furniture, trim, etc. You name it, and I've probably mea...

Halston's NYC Townhouse, photographed for New York times in 1977. As fashion week wraps up, I thought it would be fun to share this post I recently came across. It's an exclusive look into the homes of fashion icons Yves...

Meshi Olinski, Sara Adler and Adam Tsekhman in Tsili by Amos Gitai As we commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War and after passing through the atrocities and destructive treaties of WWII, these days ...

If there were a perfect metaphor for the decadent, outsize role that chef Daniel Boulud is certain to play in the D.C. food scene, it would be the choice of dessert for his restaurant DBGB's splashy grand opening at the ...

Name: Chris Location: Denver, Colorado Size: 800 square feet Years lived in: 2 years; Rented Chris is the kind of dude you want to get a drink with. He has incredible taste an art, an appreciation for smart furniture fro...

Last January, I had the distinct honor of swimming with the Coney Island Polar Bear Club -- "the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States." I had just decided to launch my NYC photoblog, ALL THE LONELY PEO...

Name: Emily Henderson Location: Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA With some help from Tiny Prints, interior designer Emily Henderson held a soiree to christen her new and first-ever work-out-of-the-house office space! I caught...

I used to believe that placing a bed in the corner of a room was a problem. The task of making the bed can be more difficult, and it can look strange pushing furniture to the edges of the room. But sometimes, when a room...

Um, so this is happening. A Tumblr has been created in which a dildo is poised in every photo and viewers are invited to do their best to find it. "An installation art project about the place of rubber in our lives," the...

Every space in our homes has become more high tech over the last decade. The one outlier? The kitchen and dining room seem to lag behind. It's partially a good thing. Using smartphones at the dinner table is just rude. B...

Q: My wife and I are expecting twins in January so we are already starting to get everything ready. One problem I've run into is a baby gate for the stairway. We have iron railings and everything I've found is for standa...

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  Can you imagine Gone With the Wind ending another way? Rhett Butler's most famous line to Scarlett O’Hara--”Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”--was almost replaced with several expletive-free phrases, acco...

Which Roosevelt said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do”? Match the quote to the Roosevelt below and tune in to Ken Burns's excellent documentary series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History on Sunday, Sep...

What’s on the menu tonight? What’s for dinner might depend on which state you call home. Research by realty site Estately.com revealed the most popular types of restaurants each of the fifty states. Using data from U...

Two hundred years ago this month, lawyer and poet Francis Scott Key wrote his famous song. You know the words, but did you know that the famous melody is modeled after the tune of an old British gentleman’s club song? ...

During last season’s Dancing With the Stars finale, fans around the country audibly gasped when Len Goodman said, “I'm not saying this is true, but this might be my last season, and if it is I couldn't wish for a bet...

Q: How will Julianne Hough shift from dancer to judge on Dancing With the Stars? --Sam T., Dallas A: Veteran judge Bruno Tonioli, 58, insists the two-time champ's transition will be easy. "She's part of the family alread...

Loren Booda of Arlington, Va., writes: Would you say that polls have become more definite with science, or dismissed by a jaded public? Marilyn responds: Personally, I regard most polls as entertainment. View the origina...