It wouldn’t have been surprising if Sara Handy and David Boylan-Kolchin had thrown in the towel. Earlier this year, the couple got involved in bidding wars on three D.C. pro...

For Alyson Hanish, living in an apartment previously inhabited by a smoker would never work. “I’m allergic to smoke and really react strongly to it,” she says. “I don'...

Watching Food Network star Nigella Lawson cook is as comforting as a bowl of mac-n-cheese. The British beauty turns her attention to pasta and panna cotta in her new cookbook,...

Saying goodbye to her washer-dryer. That was one of the hardest things for Jamie Hahn when she and her boyfriend, Ben Gelfand, moved from Houston to the D.C. area so Ben could...

Renovating a dark, 1,300-square-foot ranch-style house isn’t easy, no matter what you see on HGTV’s “Property Brothers.” So when Sherry Petersik’s husband, John, sug...

Amy Pottberg fell in love with a 1950s-era condo. What she didn’t love was its 1950s-era kitchen. So when she bought the two-bedroom in Alexandria’s Belle View neighborhoo...

The media can’t seem to decide what to make of Generation Y’s role in the workplace: Are today’s 20-somethings entitled overachievers who hate being at the bottom of the...

Michael Huberman, 24, had taken a public-speaking class in college. But he knew it was time for a refresher course when he found himself skipping career-boosting chances to sp...

Sharon Rosenblatt wanted a fresh start. So when she graduated from the University of Maryland in 2010, she opted not to live with a fellow classmate. Instead, she searched pla...

Unless you’re Donald Trump, you’re probably not negotiating real-estate deals on a daily basis. Most people buy or sell a home only a handful of times in their lives, and ...

As co-host of TLC’s “What Not to Wear,” Stacy London isn’t afraid to call out an ill-fitting pair of pants or some god-awful shoes. Her tell-it-like-it-is approach is ...

It used to be that customizing your nest with fabric — upholstery, curtains and bedding — meant shelling out for an interior designer or trawling Craigslist until the ide...

When it comes to gutsy career moves, Kate White knows of what she speaks. After 14 years at the helm of Cosmopolitan magazine, she’s stepping down to focus on her speaking e...

When packing for their recent move, Cecily Cutshall and her husband, Jason, found they had slightly different strategies. “I like to label everything and label very specific...

If you were a teenage girl in the ’80s, actor Andrew McCarthy was probably your dream prom date. But the yin to Molly Ringwald’s yang in “Pretty in Pink” and the star ...