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It helps me simplify my entire shopping experience, from taking stock of the pantry to checking out at the store.

Appreciate all the little physical details of this time in your life—the good, the bad, the ugly, and yes, the completely average, too.

If you’re contemplating a home project (even a small one) during COVID-19, it may be wise to first consider the mental health effects of changing your space.

Creepy Company’s "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Halloween" VHS Throw Blankets are based on the original VHS covers for the 1970s-era horror flicks—front, back, and spine.

Burnt coral! Marigold! French blue!

Dubbed the “Netflix for sleep,” Restflix is a restful sleep streaming service that helps you fall asleep faster and encourages continuous, productive rest.

It's like having another, extra responsible roommate.

LinkedIn has just released a list of 20 of the most popular courses on its Learning platform. Even better, all of these courses are now completely free to watch until September 30.

One family came up with a super creative way to safely dole out candy to trick-or-treaters: a DIY candy slide that allows them to pass treats through without hand-to-hand contact.

Experience all the fall foliage your heart desires with this deal.

Let me explain why Halloween is my very favorite holiday... and why you should consider decorating for your favorite holiday early this year (and maybe every year).

You can “travel” to just about any time period and location in the world—no passport or suitcase required.

From "Sleepless in Seattle" to "Set it Up."

For people with particularly stressful jobs, sometimes there’s nothing better than letting your mind turn off for a few minutes and instead playing a mindless game on your phone.

It also found the No. 1 quarantine hobby in America.

The need to unplug is more real than ever.

Those must-read articles won’t fall by the wayside as you get bogged down in work.

With over a million downloads in the last two months alone, and with #randonautica gaining 176.5 million views on TikTok, Randonautica has to be the most surprising break out app hit of 2020.

Take a virtual tour of The Royal Caravan with a Queen Elizabeth lookalike.

Because the novelty of a Zoom hangout has officially worn off.

It leads you to the wall mural of Emerald City.

Maybe you can pencil them in for lunch.

One part of the country might get hit extremely hard with snow this year.

These curtains, their color and design, were my mother’s choice, not mine.

Dive into the history of suffrage in the U.S. from the comfort of your living room.

I’ve found ideas for how to create my home are tucked into the grooves of good conversation.

The beloved Disney flick filmed in a city in Oregon.

You'll get some practice in for when it comes to buying a place in real life.

After the movers left, I found myself sitting in a papasan chair that smelled faintly of smoke, both of us dropped into a new place, a new neighborhood, a new life.

Respondents are itching for a little more peace and quiet than just a year ago.

For one, keep your budget lower than 150K.

Take a deep breath and let these colors in.

Incorporate these tips from Alessandra Wood, Modsy's VP of Style, into your home.

Experts weigh in on what to do—and what not to do—when trying to carry a couch up the stairs yourself.

I could only carry it with me, looking for and eventually creating a place where it would fit in perfectly.

The voice in my head parroting my mother's rules took some time to silence.

Whether you recently adopted a pet or already had furry friends before the pandemic, you’re probably loving having something to snuggle and play with at all hours of the day. But for Gen Zers and millennials, having pets during the pandemic has actually been a serious source of self-care, according to a new study.

The thing about being depressed is how tired you are all the time. Day in, day out, I couldn’t muster any energy to decorate—all I could focus on was dragging myself up and breathing.

As a wise tween once sang, “Hey now, hey now. This is what dreams are made of!”

Our un-curated collection used to fill me with a soft shiver of shame. But not now.

Think of it like comfort food for your living space.

A new streaming service promises to bring some of the world's more inspiring design and architectural stories straight to you has just launched.

It's far more than merely a wardrobe change for me.

Our neighbors have tennis courts, we have table tennis.

These portraits are pawsitively regal.

As well as being a free way to have fun with your phone and feel like you're in "Jurassic World", the 10 AR dinosaurs are also realistically sized, move in a detailed real-life way, and are a great way to learn about the past.

It was founded by a dyslexic student who wanted to make it easier for others to enjoy written texts.

If you were to take a photo of my trendy and freshly-painted room, the chaochao would stick out like a sore, threadbare thumb.

And watching the episode was deliciously unsettling.

It was a soundtrack to a simple period of time and I needed to translate it to my own kitchen.

Get ready for a month filled with Comfort Decorating, which is like comfort food, but for your home.

Here are a few to consider if you're looking for a change of scenery.

Each trailer is crafted with sustainable materials.

The villa has ties to real-life royalty, too.

The star-studded celebrity client list includes Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Cher, Drake, Dolly Parton, Adele, and Rihanna.

Odor-busting usually comes to mind when we’re talking about garbage cans or litter boxes. But there are other areas areas that smell less than pleasant. Take your gym bag (which you may now be slinging over your shoulder more often than you did in December, go you!) for example. The thing about your gym bag and its contents is that you can’t immediately deal with offensive odors by tossing clothing in the wash or putting your sneakers in the freezer.

The world can be divided into two types of people: those who can guzzle down a bottle of red wine without any health repercussions and those who get a painful headache from just a single glass. The mystery surrounding the latter — why do some people get migraines from red wine?—involves understanding the effects of key substances found in a bottle of red. The first thing to know is the difference between a hangover headache and a red wine-induced migraine.

It’s a sad truth of housekeeping that even if you wear gloves, your hands will still wind up dry after a cleaning marathon. So we scoured Reddit and even called on a few of our favorite housekeeping experts for the inside scoop on the best hand-saving products to use during and after cleaning. From coconut oil to diaper cream, here’s what the pros say to use to keep your hands soft, smooth, and moisturized.

What’s the most important part of a nutritious diet? Most of us can automatically recite the answer: fruits and vegetables. And yet it can be tough to eat the daily recommended amount of produce, and most Americans simply don’t. I’ve certainly been among that 75 percent—the estimated percentage of us who don’t eat enough veggies. I realized, though, that part of the problem was that I didn’t really understand how much we were talking about.

For many of us, breakfast is rarely more than a cup of coffee or a piece of fruit while rushing out the door. That’s if we manage to eat anything at all: Over 31 million Americans regularly skip breakfast. There is research to back up both sides of the “To Eat or Not to Eat Breakfast” argument, but I think most of us share a wistfulness for a proper breakfast.

Nearly half of Americans do.

Good news: If you're looking for a little more contentment in your day-to-day, you've got science on your side. Try incorporating these study-backed habits into your routine.

With a new year comes new goals and fresh motivation to pursue all things health and wellness. Whether you’re trying a new home workout (cycling bikes, anyone?) or kissing that mid-day slump goodbye by focusing on a new form of nutrition, now is an opportune time to renew your focus on what it means to be and feel well. But with no shortage of (sometimes schticky and expensive) wellness trends inundating us from all angles, it can be difficult to determine what might be worth trying.

It turns out the secret to your particular recipe for quality sleep may run deeper than just a day-to-day preference.

Perfect Night In is a series where we ask actors, artists, entrepreneurs, and beyond how they’d spend the ultimate luxury—a blissful evening at home. Ah, the brothers that need no introduction (but we’re going to give you one anyway). Ever since the first episode of HGTV’s “Property Brothers” aired in 2011, Drew and Jonathan Scott have made viewers around the globe fall in love with their impressive renovating skills complimented by witty sibling banter.

Filling your Instagram with envy-inducing vacation selfies of you and your closest gal pals living it up may serve as a temporary ego-booster, thanks to all the likes you’re bound to rack up. But there could be more—scientific studies suggest that there’s an even more crucial benefit connected to taking girls’ trips: It’s actually good for your health.

Benjamin Franklin wrote the famous phrase, “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” His viewpoint sounds nice, and his own personal success gives his advice some strong support. However, now night owls and researchers alike would beg to differ. During the last few decades, there’s a growing body of fascinating research on the relationship between sleep patterns and intelligence.

Winter, the season of cozy hygge, seems like it would be the best time of year to catch up on all those ZZZs we miss out on during the more active months. But it turns out that—whether or not you’re one of the 10 million Americans who suffer from seasonal affective disorder each year—the long and dark days actually wreak havoc on our sleep schedules, both in the quality of our sleep and the number of hours of rest we’re getting each night.

Many of us practice AM habits that aren't exactly beneficial.

People can be opinionated about sleep positions, and we don’t blame them—plenty of evidence shows physical and mental health are directly linked to our quality of sleep. And according to one survey, some ways of sleeping may even more profoundly affect quality of sleep, mood, and even motivation levels in the workplace. A survey of 1,021 people from The Sleep Judge shows that those of us who sleep on our backs win the sleep lottery in more ways than one.

They say misery loves company, but it looks like joy does, too. And since the US is apparently the unhappiest it’s ever been, Americans could certainly make some pretty good use out of Finland’s “happiness guides,” and get a free summer vacation in the process.

Design and science experts have assured us that one way of reducing your stress levels is to get yourself near some water for a healthy dose of what’s known as “blue mind,” or the calming effect that simply being in the vicinity of H2O has on people. It’s not quite possible to bottle those good vibes up and take them home, but the next best option is to invest in indoor fountains, like these beautiful, zen-emitting devices by Lily Clark.