Other people's homes always felt mysterious and strange to me as a child; perhaps I just couldn't yet comprehend that people actually lived their own disparate lives apart from mine. But on Halloween,...
Easy there with the paint brush during this month of color. Sometimes a home's perfect color is revealed through the removal of paint instead of the application of more. Take, for example, this incr...
At the library's Big Book Sale this weekend, my friend Anne (of the Appealing Abode) unearthed a copy of this treasure: Terence Conran's 1974 The House Book. Of course Conran's had many books since, b...
Shopping from the comfort of your living room seems like a relatively modern convenience, doesn't it? These days, after all, with the abundance of online retailers, you could furnish your whole house ...
North Side neighborhood in Pueblo, Colorado, where a large wind turbine factoryis being built, bringing new jobs to the area This Old House online is doing a cool series of posts called Best Old Hous...
click thumbnails for larger picsIf you love to gawk at historic homes, especially frilly Victorians and colorful, staid Edwardians, the Alamo Square area is a lot of fun for an afternoon stroll. Ther...
The Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco, built in 1895, is an example of the beginnings of the Arts and Crafts tradition. This month, San Francisco is hosting the national convention of the America...
click thumbnails for larger picsTrudging towards the baggage claim at SFO around midnight on Saturday, grumpy from having endured a two-and-a-half-hour flight delay, we were cheered by the discovery ...
click thumbnails for larger picsOut of the 400 or so Frank Lloyd Wright buildings that remain standing, 23 are in California, and very few of those are accessible to the public. Fawcett House, a priv...
For those readers not from San Francisco, here's a little fact of Bay Area living: We don't have a ton of old buildings around here. Practically the whole city burned down in 1906, and relics of our b...
Out of all my sixteen cousins, I was lucky enough to end up with my grandma’s Art Deco cedar chest. Someone gave it to her as an engagement gift in 1942. My mother says if she ever wanted a moment a...
These graphs, created by Jer Thorp of Ouno Design, are visualizations of design lingo used in the New York Times from 1984 to 2009. The one up top, for instance, shows frequency of use for the words...
The election is officially over, and while we don't want to spark a heated political debate, we would like to know if there will be any lasting effects of the campaign in your home. No matter which wa...
McDonald Construction and Development, Inc. is currently searching through the wreckage of a recently burnt down 1951 Henry Hills home in the east bay. Why? Because Hill built the home for Karl von ...
Being smack dab in the middle of our own, very hands-on renovation, we do a little dance of joy every time we find a kindred spirit out there. While we continue to discover new mysteries around our ...
A few days after the shaking stopped post-Loma Prieta back in '89, friends of ours pulled out some pretty amazing artifacts from one of the new cracks in their very old walls. We're always hoping fo...
On April 5, six Portland-area homes, either built in or inspired by mid-century home design, will open their doors for a tour to benefit after-school programs at Chapman Elementary School and Beach E...
Familiar yet totally foreign. As a kid in the eighties we moved into a turn of the (last) century house in Seattles Central District. In the process of hauling out the previous owner's stuff we u...
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