Elaine Matsushita

The recently released "In Style Parties: The Complete Guide to Easy, Elegant Entertaining" (In Style Books, 192 pages, $27.95), from the editors of the celebrity-style mag, wows with luscious photographs...

We know how to calculate area (thanks to going through 4th-grade math again with our 10-year-old) but we're stumped when it comes to calculating the right size area rug for...

Since the show "Breathing Room" on the FINE LIVING TV Network takes viewers into personal spaces that are designed to help its occupants "unplug and unwind," we thought host Amanda...

If you are looking for ways to control the spread of diseases in your garden, Jessie Mack Burns, host of the DIY Network series "Weekend Landscaping," has just what the...

If the thought of tiling your kitchen backsplash--making sure tiles are plumb, cutting tiles to fit around outlets and other obstacles--screams "call a professional" but your budget is chanting "do...

MORNING We had hoped to get an early start for our mother-son outing in Kane County and start things off with breakfast at The Milk Pail Restaurant (14N630 Route 25,...

We've heard plenty of tips for affordable facelifts for kitchen cabinets -- painting cabinets, changing door pulls, refacing -- but Kelly Keener of DIY Network's "Material Girls" shared a new...

From the looks of parking lots at Bed Bath & Beyond, Linens 'N Things, Wal- Mart, Target and IKEA stores last weekend, we're figuring that you already have made at...

Yes, we've been lifting weights but still that nut just wouldn't budge. Norma Vally of Discovery Home Channel's "Toolbelt Diva" to the rescue with this advice: For extra turning power,...

OK, putting on an apron -- we can do that. Skip the dryer -- we don't like how clothes sometimes feel hard when line-dried, but we can do that. And,...