Home & Garden

Barbara Damrosch

Rotating among small-seed veggies, large-seed veggies and grass keeps lawn and garden healthy.

Adrian Higgins

Hardy varieties, including a two-story enigma in Sterling, take root in Old Dominion soil.

Margaret Ely

An Arlington resident wants to give her daughter her own room but is worried a small playroom won’t accommodate her.

Jura Koncius

The most stylish back street in Georgetown is a byway paved with granite Belgian blocks, lined with high-end design shops.

Cady’s Alley, tucked away in the D.C. neighborhood, is an interior design haven.

See our judges’ top picks from this year’s entries.

Margaret Ely

The interior designer talks about maximizing design in minimal spaces.

Jura Koncius

Here are Kushlan’s recommendations, in her own words, for making the most of small space living.

Jura Koncius

Kiera and Michael Kushlan, both 29, worked with a small space and a small budget to create a Kalorama showplace.

Margaret Ely

A Maryland reader seeks help with a big space with an even bigger view.

Barbara Damrosch

When the June crop is but a sweet memory, a second, sweeter harvest.

Jeanne Huber

The key connection is the system for holding the corbels to the wall.

Adrian Higgins

The silver lining to the strange summer weather? Grape tomato varieties are uniformly good.

Margaret Ely

The popular Brooklyn-based market will open its D.C. venue Saturday. Here is a look at some of the vendors.

Margaret Ely

A couple want a nice space where they can entertain guests.

Barbara Damrosch

Making compost is a lot like cooking. Here’s how to make a slow-simmering stew of “black gold.”

Jeanne Huber

For cabinets that don’t go together, painting is easier than refinishing.

Margaret Ely

Decorating a kid’s room is hard enough. But how do you make the perfect room for two?

Front porch accessories that evoke the best of modern and traditional style.

Adrian Higgins

Bees and butterflies are imperiled by habitat loss and pesticide use. Successive generations of monarch make an annual journey from Mexico to Canada and back, but the butterfly is losing ground. Gardeners can throw them a lifeline.