Top Stories. This week's Home & Garden has tons of great pictures and a fascinating story on design assistants living stylishly on tight budgets...

• This is perhaps our favorite H+H story in a few months—For Designers’ Disciples, Home as Homework. Really good stuff—but short and left us wanting MORE!

• Playwright Steven Sater lives in the eaves of the Dakota: Storming Broadway From Atop a Fortress.

• News we can use: Plants That Thrive on Neglect.

• Room to Improve: Can I buy a ready-made house plan by a well-known architect? (please, please don't!)

• Personal Shopper: Ornaments. Extreme examples of decoration!