Karen Klages

And you thought alternative medicine was just about healing herbs and getting your toes pulled this and that way. Now we hear that housecleaning, too, can help heal you. Because...

Looking for a new sofa? The search can be grueling. So many of them look so much the same. Cambium, 113-119 W. Hubbard St., is one of those little-known furniture...

It's barbecue season--and for more and more people, that involves a propane-fueled gas grill (not necessarily the most familiar piece of equipment in a homeowner's repertoire). So, for a safe...

Dad and the lawn--they go together. Home & Garden Television knows that. Sure it does. No doubt, that's why the cable station is airing "Sporting Lawns" at 8 p.m. Sunday,...

Say what you will about Martha Stewart, but the doyenne of domesticity and her print publication probably have influenced the world of shelter and women's magazines more than anyone and...

People who travel know a little secret. They're called Streetwise and Artwise maps--the plastic-coated maps that reduce an entire city's streets and points of interest down to a handy brochure...

You know the air inside your house is dry during the winter, but would you believe desert-dry? Honeywell Inc., maker of humidifiers and other heating, ventilation and air control products,...

Say goodbye to chartreuse and hello to juniper, "a cross between evergreen and Caribbean blue." That's how the folks at The Homer Laughlin China Co., maker of good ol' Fiesta...

In the 1960s, Karen Lumsden was an "ordinary mom" (her words) who used to stir up a lot of chocolate milk--one tedious glass at a time--for her two small boys...

Christmas will be white, New Year's Eve wet. April will be oddly hot. And so could a few chocoholics because there might be a shortage of the sweet stuff due...