Q: My favorite color is "shocking" pink. I wear it lots and was all set to paint our living room walls when my husband's mother called it a "tacky color."

Now he's gotten involved big-time, and I have "lost the courage of my conviction," to ...

Q: I am confused about furniture arranging. My mother-in-law has everything in twos in her living room (except the sofa): two club chairs, two side tables, two lamps, all matching, even twin cubes for the cocktail table. Is this the right way to ...

Q: What's the word from the Furniture Capital of the World?

A: It all depends on where you look in High Point, N.C., the largest home furnishings market on earth. Think of l0.5 million square feet of show space in 180 different buildings, where 2...

Q: We are moving from our l960s ranch house into our family's "old manse," a mid-l9th-century Georgian-style house that's been handed down to us from a great-great-aunt. It's quite a change! For one thing, there's a wide (15 feet) center hall that...

Q: We are rehabbing an elegant old townhouse (l889). It's a row house, and the only windows are on the front and back. The dining room is very dark, so we are looking for ways to brighten it up that work with the Victorian atmosphere of the house....

Q: We are remodeling this spring and planning to sell and move in a couple of years.

So I have been researching smart resale moves and read that the great majority of kitchens in the U.S. are white. My wife says white is "too sterile" for her. ...