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Londoner Dave Clayden has gradually adjusted to life in the subtropics, where, as he puts it, “toweling yourself down after a...

Architect Preston Scott Cohen resurrected an early 1800s barn as a vacation home for a literary couple and their family, calling...

Aaron Roberts and Thomas Bailey, the young architects behind room11, teamed up to design a house for Aaron's parents, fixing the...

Gregory Katz proves that three times is a charm with his trio of concrete homes, which challenge the status quo in this quiet...

Boulder, Colorado, straddles a dynamic geographical border where miles of Rocky Mountains descend into flat plains that stretch...

On a small granite outcrop in Canada’s windswept Georgian Bay, an architect couple build a humble getaway more than eight miles...

This New York turned ski bum took a little piece of the city to the mountains, and never looked back.

A 1947 book highlights midcentury homes across the country designed by modern architects to model solutions for different...

Victorian technology has no business being the receptacle for your business. It’s time to outmode the common commode.

Tony and Rachel Sherman were simply trying to buy a house, but what they found instead was a foundation—a discovery that...

With a nod to the Burgh’s industrial heritage, and an eye toward the new, Jeff Walz replaced an aging farmhouse with a chic steel...

Tom Hanks is not known for horror films, but his 1986 flop, The Money Pit, has a terrifying premise: A seemingly small renovation...

How do you create a tool shed to match the modern lines of a Rocio Romero LV prefab house? If you’re Barry Bless and Jennifer...

No piece of furniture has more aptly paved the way to connubial bliss than the love seat.

For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out.

Maria Cook and Lance Compa were only looking to kill a sleepy Sunday afternoon when they drove 20 minutes south of their home in...

Husband and wife Carrie and Andrew Purcell are in the business of making beautiful, and mouthwatering, photographs together.

With a very limited budget and no construction experience, Lucky and Kim Diaz overhauled a wreck of a house into a sweet,...

The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes...

Taking inspiration from barns, warehouses, Case Study Houses, and Japanese residential architecture, architect Marcus Lee and his...

Within the mix of warehouses, detached brick bungalows, and dusty pubs of the Sydney, Australia, suburb of Alexandria, local...

Openshop|Studio’s design for a hivelike structure in the middle of a Brooklyn loft creates a chrysalis of comfort for a couple...

With a presence in three centuries, Christi Azevedo’s Victorian survived the quake of 1906 and served as a laundry before its...

A story I heard this morning on Morning Edition on NPR reminded me yet again of Americans' outlandish sense of what makes for a...

Built just northeast of downtown Detroit, the enclave of postwar modernist houses and high-rises marked the first urban renewal...

The first year out of college is a wildcard for most people.

Here at Dwell, we’re big fans of multi-purpose places: live-work spaces, home-art galleries, and products like Murphy beds that...

“Repurpose, refurbish, recycle” was the guiding principle to create this shed-inspired Canadian country house assembled piece by...

The metal-clad home came to be thanks to a plucky pair of residents, two talented architects, and one long-sighted and very...

Taking cues from traditional Swedish rooflines but rejecting the precedent of subpar prefab, Claesson Koivisto Rune bring light...

Architect William Massie’s personal prefab project takes the mass out of mass customization to create a one-of-a-kind wonder.

Over the holidays, Dwell reader Steve Rankin sent us photos from his October 2008 visit to the North Carolina State Fair...

Without a decent dresser, can you dress decently? With the help of two outspoken Hollywood fashion critics we determine if a...

Take Four will be a semi-regular look at four things that follow a trend. First up: designer shoes.

Built for a young family of Spartan-minded clients, architect Felix Oesch's spare, concrete prefab outside of Zurich is a marvel...

Not since the days of post-WWII victory gardens have so many people been motivated to supplement their grocery purchases with...