Have you ever held onto a fun-shaped jar because maybe you will become a person who meal preps or does art projects? The container may be empty, but it’s full of possibility. For @vox.com I wrote about the glorious burden of stockpiling jars. Gift link: rb.gy/sev7fh

Frozen yogurt is back, baby, and I wrote all about it for my very first byline for @vox.com (!!!) Each time froyo returns, it’s treated like a “permissible indulgence” and each time, it reveals something about the diet/wellness culture of the moment

Ever tried to buy a ticket on the secondary market (think: Stub Hub, Seat Geek etc) and the price was WAY higher than face value? Well, the D.C. Council just passed a bill to rein in the secondary ticket market

In the immortal words of ABBA, “Mamma Mia, here we go again…” I’ll be covering city hall and all the ways D.C. politics does (and doesn’t) work for The Washington Post for the next few months. Let’s chat! Email me: Rachel.Kurzius(at)washpost(dot)com

Who doesn’t love a shopping experience that allows you to be a little nosy? Got to dust off my audio kit and shadow THE Maddy Brannon, local estate influencer extraordinaire, for an @npr.org story all about how young people are flocking to estate sales.

Alas, I got that “Eliminated” email from the @washingtonpost. I LOVED that job. I firmly believe that telling delicious, curious, surprising stories is key to the success of journalism. I plan to keep doing so! (You can now hire me, if you agree) #SaveThePost

It took only a few weeks for Pete Marocco to oversee the gutting of USAID. But for 17 years, Marocco has been battling a FL interior design firm in a lawsuit that the judge described as “reaching Dickensian levels of challenges to the effectiveness of the civil justice system.”

Word to the wise: you may regret buying that viral couch! Buying a couch has always been a high-stakes endeavor. The internet has made it even trickier with the rise of the Viral Couch: a piece of furniture that becomes inescapable online and may or may not be a piece of junk.

When Rachel Reid sat at her dining room table in Nova Scotia writing the book that would become “Heated Rivalry,” it never crossed her mind that the smutty romance between adversarial pro hockey players would one day become Canada’s primary cultural export. And yet ....

I'm gonna be honest with you, I was VERY surprised when I learned Pantone's selection for 2026 color of the year, in part bc it's technically not a color at all ... Meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.

The First Lady has selected this year's Christmas theme: "Home is Where the Heart Is" This year, the White House is also where the construction is. The decoration tour is halved for 2025. It's mostly traditional/ pared back, but there are some Pres Trump portraits worth noting:

This year's holiday microtrend? Ralph Lauren Christmas For many people, all that plaid, velvet and burgundy is simply Christmas as usual. But these annual declarations of the must-have aesthetic also reflect back our cultural fascinations and trends .....

It’s a rite of passage. As young adults grow up, they decide to upgrade their wall art. They walk into their local frame shop, get sticker shock and often walk straight back out. Custom framing has never been cheap, but it’s also never been quite as costly as it is now.

Let's talk about renovated White House's Lincoln Bathroom. I spoke with designers and experts about the changes, which are very much in keeping with what we know about Trump's aesthetic (marble! gold! bathroom chandelier!). tdlr: wow, that's a lotta marble!

Each spooky season, squirrels and pumpkin-havers duke it out over the fate of decorative gourds. Experts provided some key tips for making your pumpkins less appealing to critters. You probably already have a lot of the materials you need at home!

Each year, the White House's holiday tour starts in the East Wing & the East Colonnade sets the tone for the decorations. Now the East Wing and East Colonnade are rubble. I just learned that, despite the demolition, the holiday tour is still happening

Does something in your home feel … off? Stuck? Heavy? Maybe your dog won't stop barking or your things aren't where you left them. This is when a home cleanser might step in. "I like to think of it as a spiritual spring cleaning."

Shopping secondhand might be intimidating for some people: Will you really find a treasure under that stack of old Afghans, or just more overpriced, mildewy junk to add to your pile of projects? Turns out there are key tips to help you distinguish between gems and garbage!

TV trends have hustled in one direction: toward ever bigger and flatter screens with the highest possible resolution. But now, a humble, boxy, tiny-screened TV dares to ask: What if we dust off a different path? And what if that path leads us to the kitchen?

Sometimes I look at a play kitchen and I am amazed at how detailed and plain NICE it is. Like ... nicer than my real kitchen. Turns out, they've mirrored the design tastes of parents and the broader culture for centuries. The biggest change? Now they're marketed to all kids

The late, great David Lynch's stunning enclave in the Hollywood Hills is for sale for $15M "The family’s strong desire is that the next owner protects, preserves and honors what David created." The property has buildings designed by 2 generations of the Lloyd Wright fam

This thread & responses are so funny -- they've inspired a story for the @washingtonpost.com Have you found anything wild or noteworthy in your kid's room? Send me a reply or email Rachel.kurzius@washpost.com if you're open to chatting. ty in advance!

Honey oak, aka the warm wood from the '90s, is back in a big way .... Just don't call it "honey oak." Designers tell me people are hungry for a natural look. They're done with the Great Grayening and seeking warmth.

They weren't alive in the 80s but they love to wear the "Reagan Bush '84" t-shirts. I saw frat bros in the 2010s in these tees. Now, the younger members of a totally changed GOP still don them. I wanted to know why!

Last week, I watched the team from Sub Urban Staging transform an empty DC rowhome into a space brimming w/ furniture, art & the kind of baubles that make a house feel like a home in mere HOURS. Stagers do a unique job, but they also have tips for all. Gorgeous pics by @valerieplesch.bsky.social

Fan fiction used to be a scarlet letter for writers trying to get traditionally published. Now, it's a bona fide pipeline. But as fic becomes more and more mainstream, how exactly do we define it? And what makes it so alluring? (Art by Emma Kumer)

People LOVE to discuss and, let's face it, fight over vacuums online. Other appliances just don't seem to inspire the same level of passion These debates reveal something about changes in business models, expectations of cleanliness and what we look for in a modern appliance

I heard we're talking about stuff that starts with the letter "Z" today, so... Zillow is a behemoth in the real estate world, so you might think you can find every home listing on there. But there are exceptions: off-market listings and a forthcoming ban on some listings

The best source for gossip online is ... Zillow! Online home listings offer drama, escapism and the digital equivalent of rifling through someone's medicine cabinet. It's no wonder that Zillow saw a whopping 2.4 billion visits to its site for the first quarter of 2025

When Martha Stewart gets a new cat or dog, the first thing she does is bite it on the mouth — “hard,” she specifies. “And it squeals. It knows then that I am its mother.” I learned this when I met Martha and her protege, a wunderkind animal breeder named Ari Katz, recently