Q. This week: My house was built in 1991 and the shingles on the roof are wearing out. It's time to replace them, and I wondered if this would be a good time to maybe do something about the ice dams ...

Q–I recently removed the drywall ceiling in several rooms of my home. As I looked up through the ceiling joists to the roof above, I was amazed at how great the room would look with a vaulted ceiling.

Question: While paging through a home-decorating magazine, I saw a vaulted ceiling that was covered with wood. The look was stunning. I have a corner room of my home that has two drywall vaulted ...

Typically, we have looked to the floors and walls to define the spaces we live in, to tell us where one room leaves off and another begins. But we may have set our sights too low. In some cases, ...