The cats were cats and pretty much hated us from the start, proving it by scratching out the bottom of a brand-new upholstered ottoman shortly after install. But not Waffles. Waffles was our best ...

One of President James Monroe's Virginia estates is up for sale and the family that owns the property wants to make it a state park.

Inside, elegant parlors feature fireplace mantelpieces made of decadent marble, a gift from Monroe's longtime friend, the Marquis de LaFayette, to thank first lady Elizabeth Kortright Monroe for ...

A fireplace, black-framed mirror, and industrial bench frame the bed, which in the long tradition of New York bachelor apartments, cannot help but eat up much of the room. But the curtain ...

They moved the family’s ponderous grandfather clock to create a niche that shelters a low-slung Charlotte Perriand ‘Cansado’ bench, rice paper Isamu Noguchi lamp and a Japanese painting the client’s ...