A lot of today’s most popular home design trends are built for one thing: looking good in photos. They’re airy. Minimal. Sculptural. Sometimes even intentionally off-balance — leaning mirrors, floating shelves, cantilevered furniture, tall décor perched on narrow bases. And if no one in the house is under four feet tall and fueled purely by curiosity? No problem. But add a toddler into that...

Some homes have naturally high ceilings. Others just feel like they do — and that difference is almost always design. Ceiling height is one of the biggest drivers of how expensive and open a space feels, but it doesn’t always come down to construction. It comes down to what the eye is being encouraged to notice. Interior designers understand this instinctively. They know how to stretch vertical...

This easy DIY beadboard installation brought my bathroom back to 1917 and only took one...

The low, beamed ceiling in this room in a centuries-old English house presented a challenge for kitchen specialist firm Chisholm Design. They had been tasked with creating a kitchen here where there once was none. In doing so, they needed to incorporate plentiful storage without the space feeling...

Image Melinda McLaughlin says customers are no longer waiting for “perfect information” in order to...

California's housing market closed out 2025 with modest gains in sales, signaling resilience amid cooling prices and shifting mortgage dynamics. For the fourth consecutive month, home sales rose from both the previous month and year, with annual activity finishing just shy of 1% above 2024 levels. Data from the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) show that closed escrow sales of existing...

The Philadelphia City Council has advanced a proposal to create PhillySaves, a city-sponsored automated retirement savings program designed to reach private sector workers whose employers do not offer retirement benefits. City officials said the initiative aims to expand access to retirement savings while placing minimal administrative burdens on employers. Under legislation approved by the council,...

The Trump administration has rolled back a series of health care regulations affecting nursing homes, home care workers and Medicare beneficiaries — scrapping minimum staffing standards and launching a new experiment that expands prior authorization in traditional Medicare. The changes reverse years of advocacy efforts by consumer groups and labor organizations. They are expected to affect care...

We’ve said it before. When D.R. Horton reports its quarterly earnings, what you’re watching isn’t just the scoreboard of America’s largest homebuilder. You’re watching a business model operating at a different altitude — and with different oxygen — than almost every other homebuilding enterprise in the country. And when it performs, the implications go far beyond its own margins and growth...

During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday President Donald Trump outlined three policy initiatives he was undertaking to help improve housing affordability for American consumers. In the speech, he did discuss his “ban” on large institutional investors purchasing single-family homes, his direction to the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to acquire up to $200 billion...