Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your standard apartment's “landlord special” comes with a lot of key features: Painted-over door knobs, shoddy patchwork in the ...

If you think the plastic fixtures that light up steps and stairs around the house are plain at best, ugly at worst, you’re not alone. Gary and Dana Butler, who have been making lighting fixtures for ...

Why? I asked, as yet another home improvement project went sideways. Why do I keep doing this to myself? On the surface, the idea of changing the ugly bathroom light fixtures seemed reasonable. The ...