When Martha Stewart was decorating her Westport studio kitchen, she faced two dilemmas. The first: How to dress the bare wall that's exposed to the damaging heat of her stove. The second: Where she ...

By living in a small New York City apartment — a one-bedroom that I converted to two—I’ve learned to Tetris my family’s belongings into cabinets and closets just so to make things fit. Still, it’s not ...