One of the most “classically New England” architectural styles is the coastal colonial with cedar shake shingle siding. This iconic siding and roofing material gained popularity because of its ...

A “Storybook house” on South Yale Street in Spring Garden Township, once a Hollywood dream, devolved into a nightmare as its whimsical wood shingle roof that had endured for almost a century was ...

In Southampton Village, where the streets are charted as much by memory as by map, the Van Brunt House has long been a ...

In this video, we continue our toolshed expansion by removing the shower drainage tube and installing the floor. We utilize lumber from our land, constructing separation walls out of logs instead of ...

Light-filled Shasta tiny house features a first-floor bedroom, a loft guest space, and many other unique features.

Often when we are putting a project together for a client, we are faced with trying to blend a new addition or a remodeled part of the house seamlessly into the exterior of the existing house. In rare ...

Leslie Miles used antiques from across the country to build her Bethesda house: cedar columns from New Orleans, chandeliers from Atlanta, front doors from a rowhouse in Pittsburgh. It was all done to ...

Nearly 30 years ago, cedar-shake shingles were installed on the back porch roof of President James Buchanan’s historic Lancaster home, Wheatland. Not only were the shingles not historically accurate ...

When the firm Atelier Kastelic Buffey (Akb) began work on a vacation home north of Toronto, its clients’ first priority was to engage with views of nature. And when you walk into the 7,500-square-foot ...

A barn in rural England and a lakeside cottage in Poland feature in this roundup of homes with highly textured facades, ...