Michael Seitz spent three years renovating a 1918 "mushroom house" in Michigan. He wanted to create a fairytale-like roof and sketched out the design on a paper napkin. Seitz says he's not in a rush ...

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You can’t but love Ireland’s thatched cottages – quaint, historic, each one its own self-contained story. Thatching, while not nearly as popular as it once was, is still an option for homebuilders, ...

Perhaps the iconic image of developing-world poverty is a small collection of huts with thatched roofs. Unfortunately for those living in such places, these roofs are terrible. They leak and, when ...

There are just over 200 houses left in the country that can boast of having their bread bin in the roof - strange but true. Inside Out reveals all. John Letts is an archeobotanist with a passion for ...