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David Weeks, a lighting designer admired for his high-end, one-of-a-kind fixtures, offers a simple explanation for why he began designing wooden toys: 'It was a bit of a cry for […]

THE decision is always challenging: to buy, or not to buy, an extended warranty. Given how often machines need repair, it sounds like a good idea. But according to Consumer […]

Many Web sites provide information on choosing products that are 'green' or 'nontoxic' or 'cruelty free,' but GoodGuide.com is one of the first that rates products on potential environmental, health […]

Florence Broadhurst is known for the bold wallpaper and fabric she produced in Australia during the 1960s and '70s, and in the last several years her textiles have enjoyed a […]

TOMORROW, the seventh annual show of designs created in Brooklyn -- Bklyn Designs -- will open in Dumbo, drawing renewed attention to this neighborhood of former factories and warehouses, and […]

Living with roommates can be fun -- and a source of relentless torment. How else to describe coming home to find a note, written by the same person who greeted […]

AT a time when 'consumers are the ones in the driver's seat,' in the words of David Crowe, a longtime economist for the National Association of Home Builders, they have […]

LAST year, after Michael Perkocha and Tina Stott asked several contractors for bids to remodel a dilapidated bungalow they had just bought for $630,000 in the Glenview district of Oakland, […]

LONG before 'green' was a household buzzword, a small company in Burlington, Vt., was making nontoxic cleaners and selling them through catalogs and word-of-mouth. Twenty years later, Seventh Generation seems […]

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. LIMELIGHT, at least the reflected kind, is again shining on Grey Gardens, a 10-bedroom 1897 house near Georgica Pond here. Thirty-four years after its former residents, Edith […]

STILL looking for ways to lower your taxes? Greening your home means you can get more greenbacks in return. The stimulus plan approved by Congress in February offers tax credits […]

IN honor of spring and the ongoing quest for the perfect lawn, the Green Home asked Bill Duesing, an educator with the Northeast Organic Farming Association, a nonprofit group devoted […]

AMERICANS bought more than one billion square yards of carpeting in 2007, more than the entire land area of New York City. The Green Home asked Jeffrey L. Carrier, who […]

A RECENT Amazon.com search for 'green home' pulled up more than 15,000 book titles. Who has time to read them all? So this week, The Green Home tracked down Eric […]

WHEN Benjamen Segal moved into a one-bedroom apartment in a new luxury building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last year, he was too busy starting a new job to worry about several […]

CLIENTLaura Rich, 38; laid off in January from her job as the assistant managing editor of Portfolio.com, the Web site of the Conde Nast business magazine. CABIN FEVER SYMPTOMGoing stir-crazy […]

CLIENTAurora Pedraza, 31; laid off last April from her job as a vice president for client services at Epsilon, a marketing services company. CABIN FEVER SYMPTOMFeeling trapped by the 'lack […]

CLIENTBenjamen Segal, 40; lost his job in January as a sales director for Vaultus Mobile Technologies, a wireless technology firm. CABIN FEVER SYMPTOMFeeling 'the opposite of Zen' in the living […]

CLIENTChristina T. O'Keeffe, 33; contract not renewed in December for service as a writer at SAP, the software company. CABIN FEVER SYMPTOMShe was 'going nuts' over the empty living room […]

ON the 11th floor of Building D of the Apthorp, the grand 1908 apartment complex that takes up a block between Broadway and West End Avenue in the upper 70s, […]

AMERICANS discarded 2.25 million tons of computers, printers, cellphones and other electronics in 2007. About 82 percent ended up in landfills. The Green Home called up Jason Linnell, the executive […]

The British duo Mark and Sally Bailey are masters of 'undecoration' -- what they call their find-something-old, strip-it-down, give-it-new-life decorating style. In 'Recycled Home' (Ryland Peters & Small, $29.95), Mr. […]

You turn down your thermostat, replace burned-out bulbs with compact fluorescents and buy organic cotton sheets. But when every single household purchase and decision seems fraught with questions of the […]

Fans of the bold colors and graphic patterns on Orla Kiely's high-end clothing and handbags will soon have a more affordable way to own her designs. In early February, Target […]

PURVEYORS of high-end furniture are far from the only home-related businesses facing hard times. On Monday, Expo Design Center, the Home Depot spinoff, became the latest among a host of […]

Byline: JULIE SCELFO; New York Times News Service While pregnant with her first child last year, Chau Ngo-Rayman found herself worrying about chemicals in the products she was buying. 'I [...]

Currently, there are no industry standards for what terms like 'organic,' 'natural' or 'eco-friendly' mean when used to describe a mattress, and while some companies disclose all the contents of […]

WHILE pregnant with her first child last year, Chau Ngo-Rayman found herself worrying about chemicals in the products she was buying. 'I got this 'how to raise your baby green' […]

You don't have to be a crafter to appreciate Spoonflower.com, a Web site for designing and printing custom fabric. Anyone with a dream and access to the Internet can upload […]

At first glance, 'High Style' (Chronicle Books, $60) might appear to be just the latest example of designers acting like celebrities and, without any identifiable use to readers, memorializing themselves […]

WEEKS after its own advisory board accused the Food and Drug Administration of failing to adequately consider research about the dangers of bisphenol-A, found in many plastic baby bottles, plastic […]

In a world where stores advertise sheets with 1,000 threads per square inch and manufacturers tout vacuums that not only clean carpets but also sterilize them, it can be hard […]

PARENTS around the city are eagerly awaiting delivery of the 5-by-7, 8-by-10 or wallet-size school portraits of their children that typically arrive in mailboxes this time of year. But instead […]

IN September, Cathy DeVore, a real estate agent in Larchmont, N.Y., whose business has been at a standstill lately, began taking gradual steps to lay off her longtime nanny and […]

Joanne Chavonne saw pregnant women everywhere in town, shopping at Target for diapers or dining at a Mexican restaurant. Then she heard that so many families were calling the medical […]

Byline: JULIE SCELFO; New York Times News Service Squatting in an inflatable pool in the open kitchen of her apartment in the Queens borough of New York, Alecia White Scharback, [...]

SQUATTING in an inflatable pool in the open kitchen of her apartment in Astoria, Queens, a very pregnant Alecia White Scharback, nude except for a bathing suit top, groaned in […]

During a visit to the home of the photographer Julius Shulman a few years ago, Benedikt Taschen, the founder of the art book company Taschen, made a tremendous discovery: a […]

It would be easy to dismiss Celerie Kemble. First off, her name is Celerie. Then there's her privileged childhood in Palm Beach, and the fact that she joined an interior […]

MORE than a million homes have been lost to foreclosure in the last two years. And according to data from Mortgage Bankers Association, banks are now in the process of […]

Does a washing machine have to look like a washing machine? That was what designers at Chelles & Hayashi Design in Sao Paulo found themselves wondering after Mueller Eletrodomesticos, a […]

Sensing a business opportunity as well as a chance to reduce the number of plastic bottles in landfills, J. Eric Barnes, a Southern California entrepreneur, set out in 2005 to […]

Soon, New York City residents in need of a new sofa or Swedish meatballs won't have to visit Long Island or New Jersey to get an Ikea fix. Ikea Brooklyn […]

More than a century and a half before Greenwich Village became one of New York's most desirable neighborhoods, the architectural bones were laid by the newly prosperous merchant class. 'The […]

What do a foldable cutting board, plates resembling conversation bubbles and a soy sauce dispenser with a duck bill have in common? All are part of Destination: Japan, a new […]

An exhibition of two dozen works by Nathalie Lete, a Parisian artist known for art brut imagery that combines references to childhood and folk art, opens today at the Anthropologie […]

FOR those paralyzed by the fear of galleries and large expenditures, below are a few tips from art consultants and other experts. Shop Online TINYSHOWCASE.COM Offers a quirky selection of […]

JEN BEKMAN'S apartment is hardly what you would expect from a woman who has made herself a force in the art world in the last five years, building a photography […]