Come on—you could knock this deck out in no time! It’s almost deck-building season, folks. If you’ve had a deck project on the back burn...

Alfred Hitchcock's film "Rear Window" played upon the lack of privacy endemic to city life. Two centuries ago, when most...

Lots of soft materials dampen sound reverberation and create a sense of coziness. It's one reason we perceive this window seat to be...

Interior by Bernard Maybeck, and... Some time ago, I visited a contractor friend of mine who was bogged down in framing the floors of ...

Wait a minute—didn't this room used to have a window? Nobody’s perfect, they say.  Heaven knows it’s true of architects, but did you...

Back in my homebuilding days, fireplace mantels got no respect.  By the time we got around to building them, we’d have already run out of mo...

Conversation pit of the 1970s, as illustrated in  The House Book, an influential design compendium published in 1974 by the English desi...