Dear Kristin: People most often use step ladders to get up into the attic, but they are not very sturdy — especially when you have your arms full of stuff. The opening through the ceiling is often too ...

Take any perfectly sound retail concept—swimsuits, books, leather goods, bikes, kitchenwares (or even all of the above)—add a little coffee bar to the back of it, and suddenly you've got a hub. A ...

DIY expert Hang-Shuen Lee shows us how to create a decorative ladder out of copper pipes and so-called T-joints. You can use it to drape towels over, and much else.