Clinton Kelly (of What Not To Wear) moved into a 1969 fixer up in Connecticut. The photo above is most definitely an after - before there was "knotty pine ceilings and dingy linoleum". He likes the results: "Your house should make you happy each and every single day."...
Links to this and other H&G features below:

Interview: with Clinton Kelly. All about his making over his Connecticut home, after years of apartment life in NYC.

Annual Auction: Bid on an ornament (made by the likes of Holly Hunt (shown), Vern Yip and Matthew Lorenz) and benefit the Tribune Holdiay Giving Campaign.

Dishing:: One pot meals = cold weather comfort food. Baked seafood paella and salmon pot pies.

To-do list:: Thomas Moser event, tax deductions on home improvements and a new green section in the Mart.
Top Photo: Michael Kodas/Hartford Courant