A modest two-story farmhouse just off Hwy. 61 in Cottage Grove, its light-blue trim peeling and its porches sagging, is the unlikely focus of a fight over the future of historic preservation in ...

In a recent post, I showed a new house designed by Tom Bassett-Dilley with screened porches, which you don't see very often anymore except in really buggy parts of the world. It also had a ...

The best way to avoid disruption was to set the new building on the footprint of the cottage that had been there for 100 years. "Where the cottage was originally is often where you want to be," Mr ...

PLANS for the demolition of a Lake District cottage and its replacement with a eco home, after a planning bid by one of the UK's leading plastic surgeons, have been met with a frosty reception.