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Among many other things, I look around and see my Grammy's maroon club chair with the carved wood feet, the most luxuriously comfortable reading seat in the house; the inlaid mother of pearl octago...

Thank you so much, AlixF. I am at my wit's end.

Dear ATers: I am desperate. Truly desperate. The carpenter who began building built-in bookshelves/drawers in my bedroom on site has taken a powder, leaving me with a half-finished pr...

For those giving up paper towels and other cleaning products, two words: Microfiber towels. Those babies can clean and dust anything. Wet, they do a great job on everything from general grime to wi...

MUST. HAVE. TOP. BEDSPREAD. Emma, please help! Will trek to Stockholm to pick up!

As a former music journalist, I probably have at least 1500 pieces of vinyl--sitting downstairs in storage, alongside a trove of very expensive, extremely wonderful sounding old-school stereo equip...

Having spent two months testing approximately 15 different shades, I just used BM’s Pigeon Gray to paint my 11 x 20 bedroom, which has two big windows but very little natural ligh...

Fifteen years ago I bought a six-drawer queen-size captain’s bed from Gothic Cabinet and now I can’t imagine living in Manhattan without it. Sure, itâ€...

liseah: Score! And to think that the setting for my Aeron woes was none other than the Time Life Bldg., where the Executive chair was introduced for use in the lobby in 1960. You still see the occa...

Dear Bruised: Thanks so much for the tip about removing the arms off the Eames Management model. I had no idea that was possible, but if it is, it will work out perfectly! And thanks ...

Greetings, AT, I’m in need of a new desk chair, but because my desk is in a corner of my living room, I’d rather not go with an Aeron or something similarly too “off...

Although I have the same apt. arrangement (ground floor) and suffer the same reception problems as EastVillageAmy (and in the same 'nabe) I have to agree with D in DC on keeping a land line. On 9/1...