A remodeler once told me people who recently purchased a home and those who have lived in their homes for four years are the most inclined to remodel. Well, I hit the four-year point of owning my condo one year ago. And coincidentally I have been seriously considering doing some updates to my unit for the past year. In honor of National Remodeling Month, I’m finally pulling the trigger on...

Taking an ordinary garden to extraordinary is rooted in the details. Here is a list of five design elements to consider when creating your own unique outdoor space to help you weed through the many options. Natives. What if you could have beautiful plants, ideally suited for your planting region that require little to no maintenance at all? You can. It is called nativescaping. Native plants...

Do more with less, do more with less .  In tough times, those words seem to ring through our work lives, our bank accounts, our home lives.  With smaller, recession-style budgets, designers are doing more with less in the kitchen, and the results range from bizarre to brilliant. Treehugger expands on small kitchens , and uses the founder's 420-sq.-ft. apartment as a model for new...