See how a 400-square-foot cabin-designed on a human scale and with style to spare-can be spacious, inexpensive, and even movable. Tour the ESCAPE cabin-on-wheels, here.
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The 2014 New American Home showcases energy efficiency and sustainability while creating a luxurious, flexible, and comfortable environment perfect for today's families.
A heavily wooded lot and a poorly built house steered a North Carolina couple toward deconstructing the existing dwelling to erect in its place a new, light-filled gem of a home-the Spring Residence Rebuild.
See how architect Chad Everhart transformed a derelict, abandoned structure in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina into an eminently habitable and architecturally stylish new home in this mountain shack makeover.
Have you ever wondered, how old is my house? Learn how to scour paper records and decode subtle clues to uncover your home's true age.
The remodeling challenge was typical: how to get more living space for a growing family. The transformation was anything but.
Most houses that survive from the Colonial era-such as early Capes, Saltboxes, and Georgians-are descendants of English styles. But in some regions of the country, settlers originating in other lands put to use the building traditions they knew to cre-ate distinctly different homes. Consider the Dutch Colonial. This house is a variation on the theme…
The fabled home of an unforgettable political family, stately Springwood endures with vitality to match the Roosevelts' legacy.
Around the world today, as in centuries past, earthen homes are being built, not with traditional wood, stone, or brick, but with materials like clay, sand, and straw.
From their travel trailer beginnings, mobile homes have evolved into finely tuned-and in some cases rather luxurious-permanent, full-time abodes.
Consider these seven National Parks every American should visit, plus recommendations on great places to stay once you decide to go.
Thanks to thoughtful material choices and a spacious contemporary design, a streamlined addition to an 18th-century farmhouse stylishly connects the old and new.
For Dennis Wedlick, the conservation-minded architect who masterminded the Hudson Passive Project-New York State's first certified passive house-passive building is nothing short of revolutionary.
In DeMaria's hybrid design for the Redondo Beach House, conventional stick-frame construction combines with eight repurposed steel shipping containers to form the two-story home.
This is the story of the C3-a trailblazing modern prefab modular home.
While they never attained the popularity of their contemporary, the Queen Anne House, shingle-clad and usually coastal (though sometimes suburban) homes occupy a pivotal place in the time line of American architecture.
The bungalow may have begun as an unpretentious house for travelers in India, but in America it swept across the suburban landscape, reaching from California to the New England seacoast with a Prairie-style variation found in between.
Given the rate of change in the twentieth century, it's hardly surprising that so many Americans embraced an eclectic variety of homes that shared a common theme: They indulged in a bit of nostalgia, looking backward to the pre-machine age.
While not the most common Victorian style, Octagon Houses are a pleasant surprise when spotted on an older streetscape.
The typical Second Empire house is large and comfortable, reflecting the growing wealth of the American nation in the years after the Civil War.