What are Colonial-style homes? Let's go over the history, the types of colonial homes from Georgian to Revival, and the dos and don'ts of decorating them.

Why we still see Spanish-style homes today. The Spanish colonization of western America lasted longer than the British claim on the 13 original colonies, but by the mid-1800s, the Spanish Colonial ...

As Virginia Savage McAlister noted in A Field Guide to American Homes, “High-style Dutch, French, and Spanish dwellings remained rare in [this] area of the New World, for the Netherlands soon ...

One of those homes—a Spanish-style hacienda planted on five-and-a-half acres of gardens, macadamia trees, and citrus groves, with distant views of the Pacific Ocean—cast a siren spell over ...

Defining Characteristics of Spanish Eclectic Style. Mission-style tiles cover this Los Angeles-area house. Originally there were two roof tile types: Spanish, which has an “S” shape, and ...