Not that long ago, the home office used to be an afterthought: a spare bedroom with a desk, maybe, or a nook tucked in near the kitchen, where a couple times a month someone might sit with a laptop ...

Do you have a compact space that you'd like to make more stylish and functional? Here are ways Chip and Joanna Gaines have ...

Senior metals columnist who previously covered industrial metals markets for Metals Week and was EMEA commodities editor at Knight-Ridder (subsequently Bridge). Started up Metals Insider in 2003 ...