When someone works in a vintage shop whose fanatic following includes set designers for Mad Men, you’d expect the person's home to be something of a knockout. Self-professed thrift queen and social media freelancer for Casa... more »

When Stan Adamik and Jason Charney moved from a clapboard Cape Cod–style house in rural Pittsburgh to a modern loft 10 minutes from downtown, they faced a dilemma: how to make their traditional furnishings work in a more urban setting. Rather... more »

In 1908 in Haarlem, the Netherlands (yes, New York City's Harlem neighborhood was named after this city), architect J.A.G. van der Steur built a neoclassical-style orphanage and a residence next door for its director. By 1988 federal authorities had taken... more »

Using clever DIY methods, Craigslist bargains and materials from big-box stores, interior design couple Percy Bright and Tara Mangini have fashioned a gorgeous custom style for their three-story, early-20th-century row house in South Philadelphia.... more »

Architects Audrey McEwen and Jon Gaiser purchased this 1970s San Diego townhouse with the intention of using it as a blank-slate new abode. They made decisions carefully to keep costs down... more »

Oren Pollack moved from the United States to Nicaragua two years ago to join his parents in finding ways to make the world a better place. He quickly founded a nonprofit agency called Sports Donations... more »

William Britten and his wife, Sarah, came up with a brilliant plan to lure their family — a son, a daughter, the spouses, six grandkids — into one place: Buy a farm and invite everyone to live there. The scheme worked, and now their children... more »

For three years lifestyle photographer and teacher Nadia Dole looked at pictures of her dream home: a rebuilt and converted barn located on 100 acres of land on a mountaintop in Vermont — up miles of dirt... more »

“Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era," says Veralynn Kaiser, whose love of retro style and antiques started when she was a child and has resulted in a knockout style in her Ohio home. After becoming enamored of her grandparents'... more »

Fourteen years ago husband-and-wife mosaic artists Mike Minnis and Emily Stoger faced perhaps one of their largest blank canvases ever: an empty 1,500-square-foot industrial workshop in a former textile factory lit by buzzing 8-foot-long fluorescent lights.... more »

The beauty of California's Ojai Valley has attracted countless artists who've turned the area into a hub of creativity with laid-back appeal. So when architect Jeffrey Weinstein and his wife, Wendy, were... more »

The story of the Dialogue House in Phoenix spans a decade and a half. Architect Wendell Burnette designed the house in the late 1990s, earning a prestigious Progressive Architecture Award in 1999. It... more »

Edwin Pelser felt like he had struck gold 10 years ago when he pulled back tired, gray carpeting to reveal original herringbone parquet floors in his Hague apartment. Up until that point, things like plastic window frames, "which I hate," he says, made... more »

Though Kate and Cody Roebuck had never seen their rental house in person before moving from Georgia to Oxford, Mississippi — only a few smart-phone photos — the couple trusted that Kate, an artist and a textile designer, could make the space burst... more »