1. Pick a Number. Major theatrical producers start with a budget, and so should you. Decide how important the media room is to your lifestyle. Will it be part of a family room or a full-blown theatrical experience in a purpose-built space? Your answer will help determine a primary factor: the size, type and cost [...]

Judi Gallagher is not a breakfast person. She never eats it. She is not even a morning person. But still, when she has an early day of TV tapings and arrives at the John Karl Salon to have her hair done, the conversation will be about food. This is a preview of Judi’s whole day. [...]

You might expect a psychologist, especially the chairman of the American Psychotherapy Association, to be a rich mine of angst and turmoil. But in this respect, Michael Baer, who has a practice in Venice, turns out to be a great disappointment. He admits to having a happy childhood, and when asked how he defines happiness, [...]

Creating look-alike rooms bores interior designer Virginia Pritt Clark to tears, and she winces when décor is easily identified with a particular decorator. In decorating the same house twice for two different owners, she set about proving that rooms can-and should-reflect their occupants. And that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. "One owner [...]