Karen Klages

Do walls really have to come all the way down to the floor-or could they stop 20 inches shy of the ground, so there is a subtle connection between people...

What do you get the bride and groom who already walked that aisle once, twice, thrice before? Dean & DeLuca, a New York-based gourmet grocery, catalog and e-retailer, offers some...

It's fall market time at Vintage Pine, a warehouse/showroom of English and French country furniture. The store is staging free informal workshops led by three Chicago artisans: Decorative painter Jinna...

Learn before you do it yourself: The Home Depot offers free, how-to clinics at all of its stores. Lessons are taught by experienced staffers in a step-by-step format and last...

Yes, it is still technically summer. But we thought it might be nice to put some closure to a few of your warm-weather follies. Here are some items that might...

There is someone more brutally perfect than Martha Stewart. Meet: Alexis Stewart, her daughter. "I'm very fastidious. A place has to be clean, or I can't sit down," Alexis tells...

It has been called a testosterone fest in addition to the National Hardware Show, the annual four-day exhibition of new products that pulled into McCormick Place last week. We stayed...

Calling all rehabbers, remodelers, pickers, junkers, nostalgia lovers and bargain hunters: Salvage One, one of the city's and the country's preeminent sources for architectural artifacts and just plain good ol'...

Before you spray the repellents or just plain give up and head indoors, take a few tips from Paula Erickson, consumer affairs manager for Ace Hardware, on how to make...

Got a sofa that you are utterly ashamed of? A couch so hideous that even your cat won't be caught dead on it? You could be rewarded for your bad...