New Horizons: Find What Works for You

The Hollywood actor turns to his unofficial design guru when creating a custom-prefab hideaway in the hills above Los Angeles.

After a year of ecological calamity, experts wrestle with whether or not we should rebuild in risky areas—and who will pay for it if we do.

The Red Hook home was once a warren of dark rooms.

An Auckland architect switches up the formula on the Victorian villas that populate his neighborhood.

Plus, the high-desert outpost is available to rent.

There’s even a shipping container sitting in the kitchen.

New storage, clever furniture, and lots of pegboards help a New York attorney get organized.

In a booming British beach town, longtime locals team with newcomer architects to salvage a 19th-century workers’ lodging.

The sibling owners of Portola perfect a limewash that gives walls the rich character of aged plaster.

After hands-on study, a Northeast landscape architect sows a free-growing meadow.

After seven generations, a family farm in Bavaria is reinvented, trading livestock for lodgers.

At 98, Ruth Adler Schnee reflects on the important names she’s known—Wright, Klee, Eames, Calder—and the career she’s led.

In San Antonio, Morgan’s Inspiration Island opens for its second season.

The owners of a beloved housewares boutique upsize and remodel their home in Venice.