new york times home and garden articles

You want them, you need them, and these power tools will pay for themselves.

One man’s discovery of the vast powers of the drill.

A development in Austin, Tex., is an ambitious attempt to upend the conventions of the American subdivision.

An abandoned log house with a sinister air, the Smith Mansion in Wyoming is the stuff of legend.

Chris Hacker, the chief design officer at Johnson & Johnson, shops for hot water bottles that can come out from under the covers.

Should I remove the family photos hanging on my wall before listing my apartment?

An abandoned log house in Wyoming was the doomed project of a man who labored on it singlehandedly for years.

The modern homes in a new Texas development were intended to produce all the energy they consumed.

In Brooklyn, the design firm Nightwood created a space that looks at once handmade and ethereal.

The minimalist spaces where design perfectionists live — some so fastidious that they have no furniture at all.

A look inside the vacant homes of alleged drug traffickers in Mexico, from the palatial to the humble hiding in plain sight.

An architect and an interior designer have created an online database of hazardous building materials.

The handmade house, doughty and particular, is being celebrated in three new books.

Beginning Friday, the NoLIta store Haus Interior will host Wood Shop, a pop-up store created by David Stark.

An exhibit of furniture by the designer Joe Colombo is on display at R 20th Century.