Kathi Edwards is a freelance correspondent for the Rockford Register Star.

A brick and stone house in Oklahoma City, a midcentury modern home in Tempe and a saltbox in Madison.

Should You Paint Your Fireplace? Updating a fireplace can be costly. But you know what isn’t? A gallon or two of paint!

Penny Fireplace Tile. For this space designed by @justinesterlingdesign, the fireplace needed tile that fit the coastal ...

2503 Snowberry Lane in Pepper Pike was built in 1969 and has 5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. The home is listed for $949,000 by ...

Priced at $39.995 million, the architecture of a new "spec" house at at 311 Polmer Park was inspired by other homes the Palm ...

Before Michelle and John Renshaw built their new, four-bedroom, 4½-bath home in Boerne, they looked at plenty of existing properties, visiting neighborhoods across San Antonio. Never, they said ...

Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area, with a rain storm on the horizon.

Traditional chimneys make a lovely architectural feature in the home, but they're not without their downsides. Thanks to the draught that they let in, they can make it much harder to heat a room. That ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A large SWAT team is surrounding a house in North Spokane on Monday night. Around 7:30 p.m. on January 27, multiple police and SWAT vehicles surrounded a house near Sanson ...

The former Wilko store on Preston’s Deepdale Shopping Park is being readied for reopening - but as what remains a mystery. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post ...

Imagine this scenario: You've just bought a new home and are excited about the fireplace in your new living room, but it's surrounded by a wide radius of brick that doesn't match the aesthetic you're ...