My husband hates HGTV and most aspects of home design bore him to tears.  The one exception is entertainment electronics.  He's been grumbling about a noisy fan in our master bedroom for almost a year, and hasn't called anyone to fix it yet, but when the big screen TV went fuzzy recently, he was on the phone within an hour to find a repair tech! 

Are you looking at your 20-year-old countertops wondering why their raggedy selves are still there?  Do you pine for the handsome stones you see in kitchen mags?  Have you ever seen recycled glass or concrete counters?  In my current blog posting, I "Pro" and "Con" different countertop options, and feature many different types in a StyleFile feature.  Enjoy! 

This posting isn't about sitting atop vibrating spin cycles or meeting Mr.

Any HGTV fans on BlogHer?  Since I'm a professional kitchen and bath designer, prospective clients mention the Home & Garden Television channel all the time, and I often enjoy watching it myself.  There are so many terrific projects shown.  At the same time, the actual process of bringing those projects to life is so fundamentally different than what you see on television, I feel compelled to share some of the differences between real life and HGTV that

So Dara Torres isn't the only 40-something American female with high hopes for these games.   Check out my weekly blog posting to see what this hopelessly non-athletic designing woman's Olympic dreams look like.