A House That's Only 1 Square Meter
Filed under: Design, News You could have your very own house to stay in for the cost of a little more than $1 a night! What? You think there's a catch? OK, there is: The house is only a cozy 1 square...
View ArticleThe Shingle House (Style Spotlight)
Filed under: Design, News By Bud Dietrich, AIA First popularized by the Vanderbilts, Astors, Morgans and their peers, the Shingle style developed in New England in the mid to late 1800s in reaction to...
View ArticleKitchen Lighting: Ambient, Task and Accent Lighting From Start to Finish
Filed under: Design, News, How To Beautiful and functional kitchen lighting breaks down into three categories: Ambient, task and accent lighting. Incorporating all three into your kitchen layout will...
View ArticleColonial House (Style Spotlight)
Filed under: Design, News By Bud Dietrich, AIA From sea to shining sea, America's most enduring home style remains the New England Colonial. It conjures up images of small-town America, the village...
View ArticleBungalow Style House (Style Spotlight)
Filed under: Design, News By Bud Dietrich, AIA As the Great War came to its end and the Roaring Twenties started, America became ever increasingly an automobile-dominated society. Cars, cheap gas and...
View ArticleRome's Colosseum Leaning Slightly but Not Dangerously
Filed under: Design, News By Philip Pullella Rome's Colosseum might be leaning slightly but its stability is not in danger, said officials who on Tuesday announced that the ancient amphitheatre is...
View Article'Star Trek' Real Estate: Home Inspired by Starship Enterprise For Sale in...
Filed under: Design, News Are you a Trekkie with a few mil to burn? Well, here's the opportunity of a lifetime: For $10.5 million, you can own this Australian home designed by a lifelong "Star Trek"...
View ArticleMountain Home (Style Spotlight)
Filed under: Design, News By Bud Dietrich, AIA I've just started the design of a new home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia. The property, more than 5 acres, is spectacular -- heavily...
View ArticleThe Row House (Style Spotlight)
Filed under: Design, News By Bud Dietrich, AIA From the early 19th century through the early 20th, America's cities grew at a rapid pace. Immigrants from other countries as well as a migration from...
View ArticleKitchen Renovation: Nick Bylsma of Topeka, Kan., Surprises Wife With Weekend...
Filed under: Design, News Love letters, flowers and jewelry would make a lot of women swoon, but Nick Bylsma wanted to do something extraordinary for his wife, Melissa, on their second wedding...
View ArticleTreehouses That Make Us Want to Live in the Woods
Filed under: Design, News You might think that treehouses are for children -- but wait until you get a load of these treetop beauties! Creative, unique and gorgeous, these treehouses are luxurious...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright Group Fights to Save His Home in Arcadia, Ariz., From...
Filed under: Design, News, Celebrity Homes Conservationists are rushing to win landmark status for a home in Arizona built by iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright to block its pending demolition. In...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Home Transformations
Filed under: Design, News%Gallery-163077% See more great galleries from AOL Real Estate: Extreme Home Makeovers: From Sorry to Stunning Massive Mansions: 10 of the Biggest Homes on the Market The High...
View ArticleFloor Plans of TV Homes: Brandi Roberts Re-Creates the 'Friends' Apartment...
Filed under: Design, News, Celebrity HomesIt only happens on TV: People living in the best apartments money can buy in the middle of New York City (but seemingly never spending any time at a job to pay...
View ArticleNew Mexico's Earthship Homes Are a World Away From Traditional Living (Off...
Filed under: Design, Lifestyle, Off the GridWe are currently living in a way that is indisputably unsustainable. The ecological resources on which modern housing depend are becoming increasingly...
View ArticleNikolaj Arndt's Eye-Fooling Street Art Will Astound You
Filed under: Design, News Want to make your living room a little more cozy? Here's an idea: Throw in a pit with hungry alligators snapping their jagged teeth at your feet. Well, not real ones, of...
View ArticleVictorian Home (Style Spotlight)
Filed under: Design, News, Lifestyle By Vanessa Brunner For most people, the term "Victorian architecture" defines a diverse but singular style. The reality is that this term encompasses several...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright House in Phoenix Saved From Demolition -- For Now
Filed under: Design, News, Celebrity Homes A developer who planned to tear down a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix has abandoned demolition plans in the face of staunch opposition from...
View ArticleNaomi Campbell's Futuristic Russian Home: Like Something From 'Battlestar...
Filed under: Design, News, Celebrity Homes There's only one thing that can top the epic "Star Trek" home shaped like the Starship Enterprise. That would be supermodel Naomi Campbell's "Battlestar...
View ArticleWall Murals in Homes: Take 'Em or Leave 'Em?
Filed under: Design, News, SellingEver since caveman days, humans have longed to decorate bare walls with their own paintings. However, wall decor commemorating an exceptional antelope hunt no longer...
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