Home & Garden focuses on gifts and entertaining this week. Extensive gift ideas and a must-read story about neurotic hosts!

• The Search Is On, this weeks main feature, includes a slideshow of unique gift ideas.
  
  
  
• Post-Renovation Anxiety and New Couch Angst are normal for the hosts and hostesses profiled in Welcome ...Oh, but Don’t Sit There. This is a must-read—we hope this makes people realize how ridiculous they are!
  
  
  
• The Home & Garden staff test a number of new gel- and liquid-burning fireplaces. Wield a Match, Not an Ax: Ventless Fireplaces. They also look into the digital versions (pictured).
  
  
  
• Room to Improve:Is beadboard appropriate in the city?
  
  
  
• More gift ideas (at many price-points) when Personal Shopper turns Holiday Shopper.