Carmel Carrillo

`Learn to let go and make space," Hellen Buttigieg coos to her client, Jo. Her apartment is in such disarray that Jo eats, sleeps and works on her bed because...

In 1979, TV viewers were exposed to a new commercial that littered the airwaves. Two boys in a convertible cruised the streets and accosted a young woman: "Hey, good-lookin' --...

"I just don't trust myself with a power tool, especially right now," says Pamela, a neighbor/team member on an upcoming "Trading Spaces" episode. "I'm dangerously premenstrual." This is the allegedly...

Margaret and Gary Kachadurian were out for a drive 20 years ago when they spotted a house tucked away behind an unkempt mini-forest. "All you saw was overgrown woods and...

`If you need to buy any property," says Kirstie Allsopp, "you need to know how to play the game." Allsopp and Phil Spencer, hosts of BBC America's "Location, Location, Location,"...

A scarcity of square footage doesn't mean that comfort, individual style or even appliances have to be set aside. "Most people think that good design has to happen in large...

`This Old House" has a new and practical neighbor in the home-improvement genre: "Restoration Realities" helps homeowners repair a historic detail in an old house. Host Bill Click and carpenter...

It was only a matter of time before HGTV dreamed up a male counterpart to quirky Candice Olson of "Divine Design." Olson's creations are among the most elegant and tasteful...

In the massive lineup of home-improvement and makeover shows, African-Americans are too often overlooked. B. Smith of "B. Smith Style" certainly fills a niche: "People understand what I do because...

There's a scene in "The Blues Brothers" in which Dan Ackroyd's Elwood gloomily drones, "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of...