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It’s been six months since many of us were last in the office, tapping away on our ergonomic keyboards and drawing on whiteboards in conference rooms during (gasp!) in-person meetings.Since [...]

While trying to buy a house this summer, I assumed our real estate options were limited to homes that were officially for sale. Well, guess what? We ended up buying a house that wasn’t even [...]

In 2010, Vanessa Piala and her husband Jim Belikove modified their home near Chevy Chase, Md., by digging out the basement and adding an in-law suite in anticipation of moving her parents there [...]

When the mercury is rising, it should be an easy decision: Do you run the air conditioning or open the windows? In reality, the choice isn’t always so obvious. You may think open windows are the [...]