Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we explore how to make a library look at home in a ...

These interior designers have strategies for creating personal spaces for reading, whether it is in a dedicated room or a welcoming corner in your house. By Tim McKeough If you own a lot of books, ...

Architects build for practical purposes. Ideally, they build in a specific setting for the people in that setting. Successful design comes from understanding the objectives of the building’s owners, ...

NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. A SPECIAL MAKE-A-WISH REVEAL FOR A CENTRAL IOWA SIX-YEAR-OLD IS BENEFITING HER ENTIRE SCHOOL. ADELINE ORY HAS CANCER, AND ONE OF HER FAVORITE THINGS TO DO IS READ AND TO GO ...

Did you know there are an estimated 2 million home-educated children in the United States? According to a report from the National Home Education Research Institute, there were approximately 2.04 ...

A longtime Anchorage resident's dream of bringing a public library back to downtown is inching closer to reality, and may fit in with bigger plans to rejuvenate the city center with more apartments ...

The library inside Oxon Hill Elementary School in Prince George’s County. (Theresa Vargas/The Washington Post) Theresa Vargas’s Feb. 18 Metro column, “Adults and kids alike combat empty shelves in Md.

It's an unfortunate dilemma: Your best reads are the ones you most want to lend to friends and family, but whether you'll see your books once they leave your shelf is another story. Luckily, there's ...