The quintessential — and original — American dwelling, the teepee, is a sublime guest room, party hut or dinner den. Be brave.   Monique Pean naturally shed buffalo-horn bangle with cruelty-free white diamonds, $2,730, and gold feather pendant $1,700, at Grange Hall Chanel Hermès Poi...

Just a few of Rob's own observances on the day we photographed the Cary and Kent Smith house, decorated by the one and only Michelle Nussbaumer. Click "launch slideshow," above, to take a peek... (To see the original feature story, click here.)     

Grandma — excuse me, “Suki,” her “grandma name,” which means fondness and love in Japanese — has just come in the back door of daughter Cary Smith’s house, two grandsons trailing behind. She plops her bag — a bright-orange Goyard — onto the all-white island in the all-wh...

If there’s one thing that sold interior designer Lisa Rowe on her two-story mid-century house in Memorial, it was probably the downstairs wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that span the entire back length of the house. Or maybe it was the view of lush grounds with a ravine that empties into the nearby bayou. Most likel...

Our domestic goddess, Laurann Claridge, readies for a mean spring-clean with an arsenal of scrubbers and specialized housekeeping advice.  The Title Says It AllWanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework (Applewood Books, $11.95; originally published in 1917). Forward-thinking author Clara Helene Barker deftly applied b...