Even those of us who don’t write out a list of New Year’s resolutions tend to look at January as a time of new beginnings and fresh opportunities. In fact, January takes its name from Janus. In ancient Rome, it…
Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of imagination
In some households in the US, emptying the Christmas stockings is a bigger deal than opening the presents under the tree. Even though they’re smaller, stockings are often filled with lots of surprises—some of them quite valuable. Remodeling a home—instead…
A Cook’s 6 Tips for Buying Kitchen Appliances
A Cook’s 6 Tips for Buying Kitchen Appliances
Your Kitchen This Thanksgiving
Bringing friends and family together for a big Thanksgiving dinner is a well-established American tradition. We look forward to it with great anticipation (and sometimes unrealistically high expectations!). There are times, however, when our homes just aren’t ideally situated to…
Home Remodeling: What’s Cooking in Kitchen Remodeling?
Regardless of whether you’re carving pumpkins—or turnips—chances are you’ll be doing it in the kitchen. Years ago that made sense because the kitchen was pretty much a working room—cut off from the rest of the house. If you were going…