If you can't get people to buy your super cool plans, do them yourself. This is exactly what Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen did when they went looking for land on which to build their designs....
Galvanized cool. You may remember that Sara and I went looking for a galvanized tub to use as a pool for Ursula (@2yrs), and found this great company: Dover Parkersburg, from which we bought a real...
Horizon Hill, a small Arts & Crafts home in Red Hook, New York presides over 38 acres of the Hudson Valley. Harlan Bratcher (chief executive of A/X Armani Exchange) and Toby Usnik, use the home as a...
Our Yurt (a few summers ago) Over ten years ago, we put up our first yurt in a field out on Long Island. A spare bedroom, a romantic getaway and a dramatic design statement, that round yurt is still...
Whether you want your Savannah summer rental to be furnished in a 19th Century Savannah style or your Mid-Century Modern Palm Springs retreat full of design classics, savvy owners of vacation rental...
How about an escape to a 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Narragansett Bay off the coast of Rhode Island? Boston architect Henry Wood shares his weekend bohemian retreat — Clingstone &mda...
American actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry have created a comfortable escape in Umbria, Italy. The New York Times shows us the couple's renovated 350-year-old stone house in Umbria, Italy wh...
This little sauna brings with it a barrel of savings and health benefits. Named for its shape, the cedar Barrel Sauna comes in an assemble-yourself kit......
There no better combination than great design, environmental sustainability and luxury, and it's particularly refreshing when you realize that they're not mutually exclusive. I originally heard abo...
You know the little farmhouse in Babe, that movie about the pig? That setting has always captured our imagination. Now we think we've found that place in the flesh, in this little vacation cottage i...
It's Friday afternoon (on a super-hot day) and we're dreaming of a beach retreat like Nina Tolstrup's 388-square-foot home on the shore in the northeast of Kent, England. The space is sparsely furni...
Back in the 1960's, Aarno Ruusuvuori designed the Marimekko sauna system. Today, the prefab design is still a shining example of simple, modern summer living... ...
Many urban dwellers have embraced the local food movement. Greenmarkets are booming in Manhattan and CSA food boxes are trendy. The New York Times shows us some former urban dwellers have embraced t...
Summers in Finland mean heading out to the country house, often without electricity or running water. Time is spent outdoors and the sun is up around the clock. This book, Finnish Summer Houses by J...
Looking at garden catalogs is an annual occasion at our house. While it's usually window shopping and imagining "WHAT IF WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY", tucked away inside are always a few super cool, use...
Searching for a simpler, more solitary life, Lila Walton purchased the remains of a 17th-century threshing barn in rural Norfolk, England. Now newly renovated, the 1,300-square-foot barn retains a t...
The New York Times loves to profile some kooky homes. In the past year they've shown us a Funhouse in East Hampton, Arizona's Eliphante & Hippodome and Pearl Lam's Shanghai Loft. This week, they're ...
With the first big long weekend of summer just hours away, we're curious how many of you are going to be heading out of town and where you go. We can already tell that many of you are not in front ...
The Connecticut weekend home of Style Guy Glenn O'Brien and Gina Nanni was our favorite part of the latest T Style Magazine from The New York Times. A modern renovation of a 1940's two-story house, ...
A New York sculptor who works with stone, Elyn Zimmerman built a new home and studio among the rocks in Oaji, California. The New York Times gives us a peek inside the modern and "disciplined interi...
We've had our eye on the trend for pre-fabricated modern sheds for a while — with the recent addition of Kithaus to the lineup at Design Within Reach and the upcoming MoMA exhibit on prefab housi...
The picture at left is the home of the Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, Mark Robbins. The New York Times shows us how Robbins has helped to jump-start the Syracuse community into ...
Here's a new angle: The New York Times shows us the upstate home of former porn actor, Tom Judson (known in some circles as Gus Mattox). With a broad range of experiences in music and performing, Ju...
In this week's "Great Homes" feature from The New York Times, a couple transformed a 1960's Alpine home into an open and airy family space that takes full advantage of its location in the mountains....
Comfortable and spacious, Le Paty is the second home of Robert Burns and his wife, Isabelle Pisani. The couple purchased the home in the late 90's to act as a family retreat for their large (and grow...
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