Virginia K. Smith

Clothing designer Ellen Van Dusen is expanding her line of bright, bold prints from to stuff you can use around the house (Design*Sponge)

For $375,000, snag a studio on New York's most adorable secret street (Curbed NY)

So, you spent the entire weekend watching House of Cards, rushed home from work last night to watch even more, and now you find that your thinking is a little, well, "distorted"? You've started to forget where Frank Underwood ends and you begin? We won't lie, that's a little unsettling, but at least you're not alone (as long as you don't start pushing your enemies in front of the subway).

Q.  I own a condo, and I just bought the apartment next door for my mother. One part of the shared wall has closets on both sides, and we'd like to open a doorway through the closets for easy access. Does this count as combining the apartments and, if so, how would that affect the renovation? Would we need to remove a kitchen? How would this impact the sale of the apartments down the line?