Author: By Marni Jameson
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At Home: Hollywood ‘fixer’ seeks design help to downsize and fix up a fixer
Before COVID hit, Howard Bragman had two houses and a spouse. Today, the celebrity crisis manager, known for cleaning up some of Hollywood’s biggest messes, is single and living large in half the space he once had. For a sense of what he’s dealt with, past clients include Sharon Osbourne, Nick Cannon, Wendy Williams, Chris…
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At Home: New furniture line from HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ reveals the twins’ differences
Half the fun of watching “Property Brothers” — the HGTV reality series where identical twins Drew and Jonathan Scott persuade homebuyers to buy an old fixer and trust the design duo to transform it — is trying to tell the handsome brothers apart. Though they look like carbon clones, they make a sport of telling…
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At Home: Tackling pet fur-stration and more tips for living with cats and dogs
“Would you please stop shedding?” I beg Luke, our 55-pound hound mix (Great Pyrenees, German shepherd, chow, basset hound and a few more shedding breeds, according to Wisdom Panel). “Please keep your prodigious fur to yourself.” Luke and I have this conversation often as I deal daily with the puffy apricot fur balls that billow…
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Buying a home in Colorado’s sellers’ market? You’ll need these tips and a lot of luck
I went house hunting last weekend with my daughter and her fiance, who are moving from Texas to Colorado next month. Even for this seasoned house hunter, the experience was humbling. In more than three decades of being in and out of the housing market, I’ve never seen so many overpriced, underwhelming houses sell for…
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At Home: Handmade quilts soften edges in high-tech homes
I don’t know about you, but my weekly screen-time hours are embarrassingly excessive. The more attention I pay to my electronic devices, the more convinced I am that we need to surround ourselves with items you can’t plug in. Homes need live plants, piles of books, original art, handknit blankets and artisan quilts. “Alexa, can…
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At Home: Feeling crafty? 7 ideas for setting up a home hobby room
“A room of one’s own,” author Virginia Woolf declared back in 1929, was a must if a woman was going to be a writer. Nearly 100 years later, I can’t disagree. If I want to write anything longer than a grocery list, I need to be A-lone. Why just women? Well, because for decades, and…
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At Home: Pro tips for getting organized (part 2)
When Cara Solomon of Philadelphia was moving into a new apartment 14 years ago, she knew one thing: She didn’t want to live like she’d been living. The move to a new two-bedroom, two-story apartment was her chance for change. “Maybe if I had an organizer,” she thought, “I could start out on the right…
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At Home: Pro tips for getting organized (part 1)
The party had to end sometime. Now that the holidays are behind us, we must reconcile all the eating, buying, hedonism and general gluttony. After the crest comes the crash. Which is why in January, the diets, the budgets, the self-improvement resolutions and the once-and-for-all promises to get organized debut. And we pledge, yet again,…
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At Home: Lessons learned from 2021 (part 2)
For my second installment of the annual end-of-year-lessons-learned series, I pulled a handful of highlights from columns that ran during the last six months of 2021. These insights, gleaned from many inspiring and informative interviews, run the gamut from the life-changing magic of folding and entertaining a horde to creating a football fan cave. In…
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At Home: Lessons learned from 2021 (part 1)
And now we come to the time of year where we look back at the last 50 columns, and revisit some of the standout moments. We’ve covered a lot of ground together this year, from the power of light fixtures to the power of love, from buying less to digging into a dirty industry. And…