A friend of mine just got back from a few weeks of travel in Spain. Of the many sites he visited, Casa Batlló in Barcelona stood out as one of the most interesting and unusual. Known locally as Casa dells osseous (House of Bones), the home was restored by designer...
How much would you pay for a home 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long? Well, the listing price is $2.7 million for a 990-square foot home billed as the narrowest house in New York City. We'll see if they get it. According to my rough calculation, that's over $2,700 per...
One thing I've learned over the years is remodeling a home can put a major strain on your marriage - the bigger the project, the bigger the strain. That's why it was no surprise to read that the owner of Clingstone Mansion in Jamestown, RI burned through two marriages...
How would you like to live in shipping containers? Might sound crazy, but the house pictured is just that -- seven recycled steel shipping containers, recycled to create one eco-friendly home. Bernard Morin and Joyce Labelle, an architect and his wife in Ste. Adele,...
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article debating the fate of McMansions in America. Once the rage, they've now fallen out of favor. A recent survey shows average square footage of American homes declined from 2,629 to 2,335 from the second quarter of 2008...
There's something special about a historic building being renovated for modern use. So it was good news when a developer stepped up recently with plans to convert a shoe factory in Whitman, MA into housing. From the turn of the century until its closing in the 1960s,...
It's a house you may have seen in movies and magazines - the Stahl House by architect Pierre Koenig remains a fixture in the Hollywood Hills. And it's one of the 12 homes reviewed in this article from CA-Modern Magazine about classic California steel homes....
As a writer for BobVila.com, I rarely cite articles from Scientific American but this article entitled "How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood" is too good to pass up. This lengthy piece documents the state of research into using room design to "promote...
A house built to resemble a nautilus is not your everyday home, but that's what one couple did in Mexico City. With the help of architect Javier Senosiain and his concept of bioarchitecture, the home was built in 2006 and now houses the couple and their two small...
One of the more unique communities in the world lies just off the coast of Miami. It's called Stiltsville, and it's a collection of architecturally interesting homes standing above the water on stilts. Built over time since the 1930s, the homes were threatened with...
