As your Personal Shoppers, we visit the showrooms and stores of your favorite home brands to put all the hard-to-online-shop-for items to the test. This time, we went, saw, poked, prodded, and laid on ...

Much of modern farmhouse style — the shiplap, natural materials and distressed finishes popularized by magazines and shows such as HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” — evokes a simpler time in a vague, nostalgic ...