Martha starts decorating soon after Thanksgiving. Gold is her signature holiday color. Every room gets a tree. Every window gets a wreath. The house does …

Recipes Inspired by Martha Stewart, Cooked in Real Life

Martha starts decorating soon after Thanksgiving. Gold is her signature holiday color. Every room gets a tree. Every window gets a wreath. The house does …

Martha wakes before dawn. There are no curtains, so the light tells her when to start. By 7 a.m., the farm workers arrive at Bedford. …

Martha keeps beeswax votives on the bathroom ledge beside a stack of white towels. A fern sits on the windowsill. The marble is real, the …

In 1971, Martha and her husband Andy paid $46,750 for a farmhouse in Westport, Connecticut that had no central heating, faulty electricity, and two acres …

The table is set an hour before anyone arrives. Beeswax tapers stand at attention in silver holders. Linen napkins are folded, not fanned. A copper …

A room can be filled with beautiful objects and still feel wrong. The furniture faces the wrong wall. The rug is too small. The windows …

A room that works begins with the wall behind it. Martha paints every building on her Bedford farm the same color, a warm gray she …

The daffodil border at Bedford stretches from the Summer House past the stable and down to the Linden Allee. Thousands of bulbs planted every autumn …

A Bedford Gray wall with nothing on it but a single framed botanical print and a slant of afternoon light. The paint is warm. The …

Martha wrote an entire book called “Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life.” Her philosophy fits in one sentence: everything has a place, …