“Did you see the Fountain of Youth?” I ask Jessica, the graduate student living with us. She is freshly back from a day trip to St. Augustine, Fla., our country’s oldest city and home to Ponce de Leon ...

Says Malinich, "Add marigold one years, zinnias the next. Try something new." Speaking of trying something new, it has become trendy to inject exotic plants, tropicals and succulents into more ...

In a 1901 seven-story townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller paid homage to the house’s Beaux Arts beginnings by installing a carved French limestone fountain to anchor ...

It’s not difficult to make a patio or porch an outdoor room. What makes people think of it as hard is the idea that it should look different from any other room of the home. Not so, say today’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Design magazines and home-decorating catalogs tend to feature sprawling backyards with big wooden decks and room for everything from decorative fountains to ...

Michael LaVance moved into his Scottsdale home in 2009 and puzzled over transforming a barren backyard into a welcoming outdoor room. "The backyard was literally all dirt and a half-dead orange tree," ...

Are you thinking of hiring a deck builder to build a new porch or deck for your house? While it could be a good investment, it might not be the most effective expenditure. If you need to landscape ...