new york times home and garden articles

The Home Section asked decorators, pundits and others for their reactions to the Oval Office makeover.

As tax authorities look for cheats, they are finding that many people who are eligible for the benefit fail to apply for it.

An art collector builds a nontraditional house in an Alpine village where life hasn’t changed that much in decades.

The chef Marc Murphy shopped for good things to put in the basket while the weather is still nice.

The focus turns to preparing plants for cooler weather, assessing what flowers grew well and what didn’t, and then planning for spring.

A one-bedroom condo in Philadelphia, a three-bedroom bungalow in Tennessee and a two-bedroom house in Wisconsin.

Talking with Juliet Kinchin, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen.”

The new site Townhouse.bz includes rare furniture and decorative accessories like a Knoll armchair.

The small store, which opened last week, carries a fairly large, well-edited selection of merchandise.

Le Chat Noir, a collection inspired by a 19th-century French poster.

The three tables in the new Resting Branches Collection have glass tops, acrylic sides and white birch limbs suspended underneath.

Eric Bonnin, a French designer, has introduced a ceramics collection, his first in this country.

Discounts on sofas, stools and other home furnishings and accessories.

A collaboration between design and geoscience has led to a groundbreaking discovery of what may be the earliest known form of animal life.

Ecstatic Peace Library, started by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, is an indie publisher that's taking a chance on -- of all things -- books.