Elaine Matsushita

We were attracted to the raw and primitive look of the "string bottle covers" in Erika Knight's great book "simple crochet" (Clarkson Potter Publishers, 128 pages, $19.95) and made our...

Buy it Though she has turned out several reproductions in recent years, it's been about 25 years since Hungarian-born ceramist Eva Zeisel has given her fans a new, original line...

Yes, we love when you give us flowers -- especially in the winter months when none are blooming in the garden. Especially when the flowers say "I think you are...

In just one e-mail, reader Elizabeth Chlipala recently married our love of refusing plastic bags in stores and our love of knitting. The New Lenox knitter shared her own magic...

Photovoltaics on the roof. Geothermal heating under-ground. Spiffy dual-flush toilets all about. This wasn't the nature of our eco-mania. Over the last 12 months, the Home&Garden section embarked on a...

Are you looking at a sea of holiday trappings that are still sloshing around your home five days after Christmas? Are you wondering what to do with it all and...

It's the moment you've been waiting for. Your sweetie by your side. The kids off to parts safe and wholesome. And a little Sam Cooke singing "[Darlin'] You Send Me."...

If someone you love loves books, loves sharing them with friends and wants them back some day, get her some Felix Doolittle bookplates -- personalized or left to be filled...

Though contemporary has pretty much been the guiding light in our home, we also love the look of chandeliers. Crystal ones. Those dripping with colored glass drops. Hand-blown Murano glass....