If your house feels harsh at night or you keep choosing screens over rooms you love in daylight, it’s probably the lighting. Light tells your body when to wake up, when to wind down, and whether a ...

Your front porch is one of the few parts of your home that every visitor and passerby sees, and the light you hang there quietly announces how current or dated the rest of the house feels. One ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at www.thebrownstoneboys.com. Most ...