Twin beds - the end of an era in a marriage or a hygienic 'mod-con'? For the best part of a century, twin beds were not only seen as acceptable but were actually championed as the sign of a modern and ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several outbreaks of infectious disease in the U.S., including the flu, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, prompted public-health officials and homemaking experts ...

My bedroom is roughly 140 square feet; it is not exactly spacious. Before moving in, I had my roommate at the time, an architect, send me a floor plan so that I could mock up the room, from what ...