Home Decorating

Your First Home: Where to Spend the Little Money You Have Left

Courtney Cachet | Posted 04.02.2012

Courtney Cachet

Decorating a new home, whether it's your first or your fourth, can be really stressful or a lot of fun. It's totally up to you. The key is to enjoy the process, keep things in perspective and not to spend money you don't have.

9 Simple Steps To Cleanse Your Home

Sophie Keller | Posted 02.27.2012

Sophie Keller

When you clean up your home, you rid it of stagnant and unhealthy energy. Most of us have too many things we don't actually need, and in getting rid of them, we create space for the cures to work.

How to Use and Place the Ba Gua

Sophie Keller | Posted 02.27.2012

Sophie Keller

The ba gua is a sacred map of the energetic world and it stems from the I Ching, which is an old method of reading energy used in Chinese medicine and healing.

How Happy Is Your Home?

Sophie Keller | Posted 02.25.2012

Sophie Keller

Whether you are in your home or not, the energy of your home environment has the ability to lift or drain your spirits throughout the day.

Inspiration For Your Halloween Party

Posted 12.28.2011

Planning on hosting a Halloween dinner party this weekend? Here are some colorful food, drink and decor options to set that spooky mood! ...

The House That Saved Me

Nancy Hiller | Posted 12.24.2011

Nancy Hiller

My sister and I were raised to want two things in life: a husband and a house, in that order.

The Holy Grail of Small Space Living: Fitting Everything In

Karen Shepard | Posted 12.21.2011

Karen Shepard

It turns out what I'd been good at was putting stuff away. In my new place there was no "away." As the movers filed out, it looked as if Christo had done an installation using to-the-ceiling stacks of boxes.

"The Best Seat in the House"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.07.2011

Jerry Zezima

I can no longer eat, sleep, drink beer, watch football, get thrown up on by our kids or do anything else on the best couch we ever had because it has gone to what I assume is, appropriately, its eternal rest.

My Strange Love of Wabi-Sabi

Kathryn M. Ireland | Posted 09.11.2011

Kathryn M. Ireland

There's beauty in survival. I've learned you can actually train your eye to appreciate the flaw, the injury and the repair. That's wabi-sabi -- embracing the imperfect and the impermanence of nature. I love aesthetics as much as the next person, but don't let them crowd out your life

Have a Hot Summer Fling... With Your Home

Courtney Cachet | Posted 07.11.2011

Courtney Cachet

Just like you switch out the wool slacks and black boots for white pants and flip flops, you can do the same for your home decor with ease. There are endless ways you can "summerize" your home!

Cachet Style File: The Chic Tasting Party

Courtney Cachet | Posted 05.25.2011

Courtney Cachet

In recent years tasting parties have become increasingly more popular because they're simple, stylish, and easy. They also cater to people who love good food but don't want to blow their diet.

Fall Decor: Gimme Some Plum!

Courtney Cachet | Posted 05.25.2011

Courtney Cachet

Plum is rich, daring, and sexy. When done right, it is downright slammin'. Done wrong, and it looks like a French Quarter brothel.

Coming out of the Messy Closet for $500

Courtney Cachet | Posted 05.25.2011

Courtney Cachet

After organizing my messy closet, I feel better, more organized and for the first time in our years together, I think I see my darling husband enjoying all his newfound neatness, too!

How To Make Your House Your Ultimate Kick-Back Zone

health.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Need a relaxing place to unwind? Create your own cocoon with these tips from Charlotte, North Carolina, interior decorator Sarah Nielsen....

Interview: Rachel Ashwell, Founder of Shabby Chic

Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

Felicia C. Sullivan

I've been privileged enough to chat with Shabby Chic's creator, Rachel Ashwell, about how her business has changed over the twenty years and how one could endure and thrive in the home decor space.

Top 10 Houseplants For Combatting Air Pollution

The New Ecologist | Posted 05.25.2011

There comes a time when these machines fail to work leaving you to the unhealthy dust particles and other pollutants in your house. Rather than artifi...

6 Tips for Dorm Room Decorating 101

Lauren and Suzanne McGrath | Posted 05.25.2011

Lauren and Suzanne McGrath

Let there be one piece that comes from home. I know this isn't camp anymore, but presumably that item will always conjure up warm sentiments for your son or daughter.

How Happy Is... 5 Ways To Revamp Your House Without Moving

Sophie Keller | Posted 11.17.2011

Sophie Keller

Many people are finding it hard to move house as it is still difficult to get a loan, so how do you move on with your life and change the energy and c...

How I Decorate

Kathryn M. Ireland | Posted 11.17.2011

Kathryn M. Ireland

Don't get all hung up with spending most of your decorating budget in the living room. Put the $ where you most appreciate it.