Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Dear Miss Manners: When showing people around your house, and you come to a staircase, who goes first? The guest or the shower? By “the shower,” Miss Manners assumes you mean “the one who is showing ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

A step-by-step build of a wooden house focusing on installing key structural elements like stairs, doors, and windows. DOJ moves to strip citizenship of 12 people amid denaturalization push ...

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

The home is much newer than the historic ones surrounding it and comes at a fraction of the price. But it’s only accessible by climbing up or down the stairs. Architect Paul Ormseth wanted a project, ...