Judging by the typical model home, you’d think that the perfect bathroom was a gigantic space with lots of glitzy surfaces and a monstrous w...

  When it comes to aesthetic matters, a lot of men seem almost embarrassed to express their opinions. That’s not too surprising, considerin...

The other day I was strolling through a local shopping center when I noticed a colorfully ragtag quartet of young travelers camped out in ...

Dutch door in a classic Hugh Comstock- designed cottage in Carmel, California A door seems like a simple enough thing. Yet visit your l...

A while back, driving through an old and well-to-do suburb of San Francisco, I came upon a charming street flanked by swaying palm trees and...

In the last two columns, we looked at the runaway proliferation of traffic signals in American communities large and small--even though, con...

Last time we looked at why so many American traffic engineers continue to install vast and expensive signal arrays on virtually every urban ...