New flooring can be an excellent means of giving your kitchen a new look. The choices for kitchen flooring are almost endless, depending on what best suits your sense of style and your pocketbook.

Tree stewardship

After climbing steadily for a decade, the nation's homeownership rate appears to have leveled off.

The Home and Garden Network specializes in shows where an energetic team takes over someone's house, banishes the person and redoes the homestead. They always end with the homeowner being led, with eyes closed, back into the newly redesigned house, and going into transports of joy and incredulity. (Actually once I watched a show where the designer later admitted the man had hated the Greek island theme she'd redone his room in, and she had to repaint the bright blue walls plain beige.)

The making of a gardener