You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. My house contains a vaguely defined room—a parlor-like space that was created by a renovation decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If a quick glance around your kitchen reveals more outdated kitchen features than you'd like to see, you're in luck. The next ...

Until two years ago, Oakland father of five Jose Peña could tote a 60-pound slab of countertop with ease. Now, a walk down the block with his kids leaves him gasping for breath and reaching for his ...

Jeff Rose, a part owner of a countertop fabrication shop in Nicholasville, Ky., is among the hundreds, if not thousands, of workers who have been diagnosed with silicosis, a lethal lung disease caused ...

César Manuel González, 37, used to work with stone that was engineered to endure: dense, polished slabs designed to outlast the kitchens in which they were installed. Engineered quartz countertops ...

With every new year comes a new wave of design trends, bringing in updated looks and sending off some of the styles that have started to lose their appeal. We're seeing homeowners become more ...

Waterfall countertops look like countertops that forgot to stop at the edge. Instead of ending where the legs or supporting sides of the countertop are, these appear to cascade down over the side of ...

Woman browsing countertop material samples at a store - Kostikova Natalia/Shutterstock As a crucial part of any kitchen setup, your countertops play a big role in your kitchen's overall look and feel.

Billie Eilish‘s fragile, love-soaked song, “Birds of a Feather,” almost didn’t take flight. In a new interview, the singer revealed that she nearly tossed out the single from her Hit Me Hard and Soft ...