Karen Klages

Your stuff. A fabulous container to show it, stash it, organize it. When the match is right between the two, the result can be fireworks, a captivating display of style...

Here's another how-to from Home&Garden assistant editor Cindy Dampier. Barbara Miller, spokeswoman for the National Candle Association in Washington D.C., advised on the flicker part of the project. Materials *White...

Different lantern types/shapes will require slight modifications to these instructions. Materials *Paper lanterns, approximately 11 inches in diameter and 12 1/2 inches high * *Grosgrain ribbon, 1 1/2 inches wide...

Ducks in the front yard. Skunks in the back. Possums on the prowl. What are humans to do/to know about the wildlife lurking just past their front and back doors?...

Home&Garden assistant editor Cindy Dampier came up with the idea and technique for making these banners, which she likes to call "outdoor wallpaper." They're inexpensive and easy to make. Materials...

Her apartment in Manhattan has white walls, white furniture and a white rug (a blank slate, she says), but the Moroccan-born, Paris-schooled and now New York-based rug designer Yasmina Kossmann...

ORGANIZE IT: First day of school looms just around the corner, and while you may have your kids' backpacks stocked, you're not truly prepared until the home front is in...

SHOP IT: Paper Source, which is based in Chicago, is holding a Warehouse Moving Sale Saturday [July 28] and Sunday [July 29] at its warehouse in the West Loop. Shoppers...

SEE IT: On the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy there is a little-known garden: The Dorothy Bradley Atkins Medicinal Plant Garden. It contains more...

The goal: a really restful, deep-as-it-gets sleep. The strategy: Detox your bedroom. Make it au naturel. "You want as little as possible in there, and you want it all natural...