Painted by John Nash in 1945, Window Plants shows an old woman, with a cat on her lap, dozing next to her potted plants. I’ve always loved that image and always wanted to have a window-sill wide ...

If you walked into Julian Thomas’s Brooklyn apartment, you’d find DIY projects everywhere. He’s hand-painted a black-and-white mural, hung and designed an impressive gallery wall, and even made a ...

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