I recently came across a nice mid-century California Rancher that had been “upgraded” with new windows and doors. The trouble was, every sin...

The single greatest misconception in architecture is the idea that we build in three dimensions, when in fact we build in four. And any arc...

Last time, we talked about the various types of garage doors found in older homes. This time, we’ll look at the modern standard for garage...

What’s the biggest, baddest door in your house? Nope--not the front door. In keeping with America’s automotive obsession, it’s much more l...

One Sunday a while back, I dropped by an open house that had just been remodeled and put on the market. It was a speculative renovation, oth...

“Architecture,” pronounced the famed modern architect Le Corbusier, “is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in...

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;” said the American Revolutionary Thomas Paine. “It is dearness only that gives everything ...