If the mortgage crisis has you staying put for a few more years, there’s an easy way to enhance your home’s decor while adding value. Upgrading your recessed lighting or installing a track lighting system can brighten up any room and make your space appear larger. This is not the track lighting from the 1960s [...]

More homeowners are merging living and family spaces with the kitchen in an open floor plan. This kind of floor plan is not only family-friendly and perfect for entertaining, it will actually sell better if you ever decide to put your home on the market. An open floor plan makes your space seem bigger and [...]

Still worrying about what goes with what when you’re decorating? Design style leaders nix the matching – “too boring” – in favor of mixing colors, wood grains, stains and textures throughout a room. “Consumers think everything has to match, but the pros mix,” says Laura Dalzell, owner and president of Cabinets & Designs, Inc. in [...]