You know what they say about first impressions: You get one chance to make a good one. Your home’s foyer presents the perfect opportunity to give your guests a good impression about the rest of your home and the experience they’ll have visiting you. This space is often overlooked, however, because either we don’t use [...]

Yes, neat-nicks, there is nirvana. It’s called the mudroom. Here, you can shed the dirt and baggage of the day and enter the house ready to relax and unwind. Having a mudroom means no muddy footprints in the house, and always knowing where you left the keys the night before. Whether it’s the size of [...]

Accessories are often the icing on the cake in our homes. Some simply add color, drama or style to decor, while others can serve a purpose by being useful as well as beautiful. Items like lamps, wall sconces, decorative containers and more help decorate our homes while making them more functional. But did you ever [...]

At first it may feel like just a rug. Then you slide your hand up and over the patterns etched in an area rug drenched in blues, grays, and ivories and wonder: Should I get one?
Of course you should, say Charles Snider and Dawn Rezai, two local rug vendors.
Rugs can accent what you already have [...]

Have you lost your appetite to eat in your dining room? Does your powder room lack pizzazz? Is your great room so vast that it’s not so, well…great? Consider this: The solution may be just over your head—literally. You can use your ceiling to add a unique touch to your décor; after all, it is [...]

My first custom window treatments came after convincing my husband, who really believed those sticky-topped paper shades from the hardware store would suffice, that dressing our windows was the right, grown-up thing to do.
We needed some pizzazz—and some privacy—in our urban Colonial-style home. And although this was well before HOME, I knew enough to hire [...]