At Home: Check your laziness at the curb

By Marni Jameson

If you drive up to your house every day and say, “Now there’s a HOUSE,” do not read on. You do not need me, and you certainly do not need Kimberly Lacy, co-host of HGTV’s "Curb Appeal," whom I prevailed upon this week for her curbside opinion…

At Home: This is not your grandma's linen

By Marni Jameson

Though I knew better, I couldn’t wait to use the pretty new table linens that arrived in that day’s mail. “Made for every day,” the website assured. That was all the encouragement I needed.

At Home: Giving courage to timid DIYers

Marni Jameson Times Correspondent

Those snobs who say there's no reason not to have a good-looking, pulled-together home are just plain wrong — and irritating. I know plenty of reasons.

At Home: Going global at home

By Marni Jameson

I don't know about you, but I'm not taking any exotic vacations this year. With one kid in college, a second in private school, three houses to manage, four cars to fill with gas, and the cost to cover the gray in my hair — which is starting …

At Home: I can't believe it's tile

By Marni Jameson

I do not know what's real anymore. I used to be able to rely on my own five senses and a dollop of intuition when judging people and products, but lately my senses have been letting me down.

At Home: Get a whiff of home scent management

By Marni Jameson Times Correspondent

Among the first impressions the old house gave off was its smell. The place hadn't been lived in for months, and rather reeked of neglect.

At Home: A fresh eye can make a good room

By Marni Jameson

Every house can use a frank friend.

At Home: Meeting Martha Stewart

By Marni Jameson

This week, I digress from my normal weekly rant about my household foibles and fiascos to bring you some actual breaking news: I met Martha Stewart.

At Home: Old houses need to keep up with the times

By Marni Jameson

The 130-year-old folk farmhouse was fabulous — if you're into museums.

At Home: Here we go again, the house-hunting march

By Marni Jameson

"I'm moving this weekend," I say in disbelief to anyone who will listen: colleague, grocery clerk, mailman, dog.

At Home: Covering the basics when raising the roof

By Marni Jameson

"Mom, there's ceiling in my soup."

At Home: Places of the heart

By Marni Jameson

"There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home." -Josephine Hart, "Damage"

At Home: Making a new place home

By Marni Jameson

"Where's home for you?" asks Brad Waters, a blogger for Psychology Today and life-coach force behind www.designyourpath.com.

At Home: Can a new place make you happy?

By Marni Jameson

Years ago, I heard an interview with comedian Jay Leno. The reporter asked him about all his money and cars.

At Home: The New American Home showcase

By Marni Jameson

Excuse me. I'm going to get personal for a minute. I just toured the New American Home, the showcase house for the 2012 National Association of Home Builders, which met this past week in Orlando. I left with a bad case of toilet envy.

At Home: Get your stuff together, beautifully

By Marni Jameson

Questions: If the problem with getting organized is not having enough time, why are there so many books on organizing? If people don't have the time to clean up their act and get their stuff together, how on earth do they have the time to rea…

At Home: Mixing it up at home

By Marni Jameson

This is what happens when you're a health reporter with a weakness for home design. I go to this party, which is to raise awareness (and money) for women who have heart disease. Like many parties for worthy causes, it's held in a very worthy home.

At Home: Do-it-yourself home repairs for women

By Marni Jameson

For weeks, the gap in the weather stripping at the base of the front door invited outsiders in like a seaport. Large insects, frogs and lizards arrived with their luggage.

At Home: What's a girl to do?

By Marni Jameson

"Are you guys splitting up or are you living the dream?" It's a question only a good friend can ask. When a spouse moves to another state for a job, while her mate stays behind, it gives people, as singer Bonnie Raitt puts it, "something to t…

At Home: In transition? Time to be nimble

By Marni Jameson

Ten years ago, while building my last house in Colorado, which I really thought would be my last house, contractors kept telling me to think of the next owner. I kept thinking: What next owner? I'm never moving.

At Home: Top designers speak out on 2012 trends and resolutions

By Marni Jameson

Like the president, I have a cabinet of advisors, a small, carefully chosen, smart group of high-octane talent on whom I rely for advice, therapy, insights, sanity crosschecks, and to steer me clear of the perils of bad taste and poor judgmen…

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