Karen Klages

Viewers/voyeurs get a twofer simply by tuning into "Barefoot Contessa" on the Food Network. They get a feast of both food and decor. The cooking show is shot in posh...

There is a vast home-furnishings store out there -- at your fingertips and a click away -- called eBay. The online auction site is filled with thousands of items for...

Hurricanes and earthquakes rip apart houses with wild abandon. But imagine a nail designed to withstand even the darkest moments of nature. Imagine something like a circuit breaker for your...

SEND IT: We plan on featuring some of the most beautiful, interesting, creative, tasteful, outrageous Christmas trees in the Chicago area in our Dec. 24 issue of Home&Garden. By Friday,...

Some people are expert shoppers. They know how to make good deals happen. Lisa Lee Freeman is one of them. Before being named editor in chief of ShopSmart, a new...

Before the advent of modern cleaning products and other complex solutions, our foremothers relied on basics like vinegar and salt to do everything from cleaning copper pots to driving away...

Can architecture make you happy? Not the I-love-my-new-kitchen kind of happy, but the deep down, inner bliss kind of happy. The kind of happy that stirs your soul, because this...

Can architecture make you happy? Not the I-love-my-new-kitchen kind of happy, but the deep down, inner bliss kind of happy. The kind of happy that stirs your soul, because this...

Five years ago, Spiro Tsiranidis, the owner/president of Stiloso, an exclusive distributor of Italian kitchens and baths, was an interior designer who focused solely on kitchen and bath design. In...

It's a shame that the October issue of House & Garden devotes only two pages (and an incomplete reporting job) to the important topic of toxins in household cleaners. Writers...