Up-to-date observations from design-minded professionals.

The mellow post-vacation feeling from our anniversary trip ended seconds after turning the house key in the front-door lock.

Abandon circular reasoning with serve ware that offers geometric appeal.

Jennifer Hudson's book for designing with flair in small areas.

This season, creative types are wild about animal prints. The trend was on display at Michigan Design Center’s Celebrations event in September.

Rima Suqi's book looks at the home décor of famous fashion designers.

Home theaters often showcase the latest in audio-visual innovation, but there’s nothing innovative about how many people decorate these rooms.

When the chickens come home to roost, they just might end up on residential lawns. Thanks to Green Chicken Coop, a Bay City-based company that sells pre-made, eco-friendly poultry pens, locavores hatching a plan to raise their own backyard brood can purchase made-to-order coops.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure are words to live by for Cari Cucksey. “There are buyers for everything,” she says.

Because Lauren Sanders looks every bit the glamour girl, you envision her in a setting of pastel colors and luxe fabrics..

Waning daylight hours put an emphasis on candlelight and electric illumination. In addition to wattage, think style when lighting your interior.

He spent a lifetime amassing museum-quality furnishings.

How antiques can complement a modern décor.

Dead wood comes alive with creativity.

A Macomb Township development showcases eco living.

It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon and Matt and Kim Clayson are peering out the dining-room windows of their Indian Village home as company arrives. Sally Crapo Bullard, great-granddaughter of the home’s original owners, ambles in, along with Bill Morgan, founder of the Swartz Creek Historical Society, and his wife, Monte.