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Tiling outside the lines: Pattern, shape and color are taking tile in new directions

Kim CookThe Curious Room Tile may be rooted in ancient craft, but designers today are pushing the medium in some surprising — and often delightful — directions. From Milan to […]

Could that dresser become a kitchen cabinet? The art of upcycling old furniture

Kim CookAssociated Press Maybe it’s a scratched-up old sideboard found at a yard sale and turned into a snazzy media console. Or a couple of well-traveled vintage trunks given a […]

It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Kim Cook That’s because the fourth annual Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bakeoff is all set up at the Museum of the City of New York on the city’s Upper […]