Articles by Becky Harris

These days you can’t flip through one page of Houzz kitchen photos without hitting a farmhouse-style kitchen outfitted with a Shaws Original fireclay sink, or a contemporary or transitional kitchen with a sleek stainless basin. While these choices are both great, there are other options out there, and…

Juice fasts, decluttering, organizing finances and making the bed every day — these are the kinds of resolutions we, full of determination, typically come up with to kick off a new year. But they aren’t always easy to keep, and we can end up feeling bad and letting them all go. Let’s give ourselves a…

When you go to turn on your faucets on a frigid day and nothing or only a trickle runs out, it’s the one time you hope you’ve forgotten to pay the water bill. But that’s wishful thinking and you know it, so panic sets in — your pipes are frozen, and if those suckers burst, your house could be a flood…

I remember every snake I’ve ever seen in my life: dead, alive, “in real life,” in a movie, from neighbors’ photos on Nextdoor, in a terrifying story on my Daily Mail app.
Around Halloween I avoid a street where I know a house has two fake cobras on the wall along the sidewalk. In fact,…