Home & Garden

With two decks, a wraparound deck off the living room and a private deck off the owner’s bedroom, a Stillwater home makes the most of its river bluf

$1.3M home on Stillwater's St. Croix River bluff offers panoramic views

A local architect designed a Prairie School house "tucked away" on a wooded lot near downtown Stillwater.

For Twin Cities power couple and their family, home is an extension of faithful service

February 26

Alicia and Marc Belton with their children Gabrielle, 11, and Alexander 14. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monday, February 15,

Marc and Alicia Belton renovated their Minneapolis home, once owned by Paul Magers, to be a welcoming place.

Tour a $1.255M Minneapolis dream home during Parade of Homes

February 26

This modern Tudor home built and designed by Katie and Jesse Kath of Jkath Design Build + Reinvent, will be featured on Parade of Homes. ] GLEN

The couple behind Jkath Design Build + Reinvent made their Tudor-inspired "forever home."

Home & Garden

March 2

There’s a fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media that is marrying the world’s taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology

From trading cards to cats, collecting goes digital

Why an animated flying cat with a Pop-Tart body sold for almost $600,000.

Home & Garden

March 2

Birders flanked baseball fields in New York’s Central Park in January, hoping for a glimpse of a snowy owl.

Celebrity birds bring avian paparazzi in New York

Twitter is turning birds into celebrities and birders against one another.

Home & Garden

March 2

How to revive vintage linens

Q: Is it possible to clean vintage white linens that are yellowed and stained?A: Antique fabrics lose their pristine quality over time, often because of…

Variety

March 2

The great blue heron rookery along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis was a favorite spot for a budding birder.

Beginning birders quickly become eager ambassadors

Like many newly minted birders, pair find plenty to crow about.

Home & Garden

February 26

Home listings: What $400,000 buys in the Twin Cities area

What you get for the money in Shakopee, Edina and Little Canada.

Coronavirus

February 25

Sharing space Gail Runge, center, plans to build an ADU at the Minneapolis home of daughter Rya Priede and son-in-law Karl Harber.

Pandemic prompts Minnesotans to make room for grandparents

Concerns about child care, finances and family togetherness have accelerated the trend to multigenerational living.

Beautiful Garden contest winners Jim and Sally Strand tend an Asian-inspired garden complete with 23 distinct planting areas in their Plymouth yard. T

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Home & Garden

February 24

Justina Blakeney, author of “The New Bohemians: Cool & Collected Homes,” has a new coming out in April called “Jungalow: Decorate Wild.”

Designer Justina Blakeney on injecting a little 'wild' into your home

California designer and artist celebrates the joy in bold color, pattern and nature.

Variety

February 23

A bald eagle surveys a raft of merganser ducks. Jim Williams

When eagles face ducks, the raptor wins

In late fall and winter, bald eagles are on the lookout for stranded ducks to make an easy meal.

Variety

February 23

The dG digital guide monocular from Swarovski.

Monocular lets you ID the bird you're looking at

Monocular has built-in bird identificationYou knew it was just a matter of time until someone invented an optical device that identified the bird you were…

Home & Garden

February 23

Plates like this came with either floral borders or ones featuring state capitol buildings.

China dinner plate was likely sold as train ride souvenir

Railway china smacks of fine dining, but early rail travel fare was anything but fine.

Local

February 23

Minneapolis fire inspectors tested alarms as they made their way through Avivo Village. Final preparations were in the works for a March 8 opening.

'Tiny house' indoor village for the homeless opens March 8 in Minneapolis

The two-year pilot program, called Avivo Village, could become a post-pandemic template for private emergency shelters in place of the usual congregate sleeping spaces.

Home & Garden

February 19