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There are spooky houses scattered across the country where bad luck, dark doings, or tragic events have spawned rumor...
You can count on the real estate market to be consistent in one area: constant change. One day your house may be one ...
These unassuming homes once played vital roles in the fight against slavery, serving as shelter for those escaping to freedom.
Even if you're stuck inside, you can still do a bit of traveling. Take a virtual trip and pick up a little history while you're at it by exploring these fascinati...
A home is probably the largest purchase you’ll ever make, both in size and cost, so it helps to approach the home-buying process with a solid plan, a healthy dose...
“Home away from home” has a whole new meaning, thanks to Airbnb. The company connects people all over the world, opening amazing homes for holiday (or business tr...
A house isn’t a home until you’ve filled it with creature comforts, decorated it to suit your taste, and customized it in ways that bring you joy—and the White Ho...
In La Verne, CA, architectural preservation and restoration expert Ray Adamyk recently dispatched a half-dozen workers from his "artisan army" of 150 to restore a...
Jeffrey Sommers's C3 Prefab modular house is a landmark of new urban architecture—and the first of its kind in Chicago. Although the structure was quick to constr...
Entrepreneur and hotelier Dan Dobrowolski has brought to market a tiny, movable cabin that feels as spacious as its natural habitat, the wide-open outdoors. The s...
Meticulous is the word that comes immediately to mind when you first see ESCAPE, the cabin-on-wheels designed by SALA...
Rather than tear down a derelict mountain shack, the owner solicited the help of North Carolina architect Chad Everhart to re-imagine it for modern-day living.
“Brutal” is the word architect Chad Everhart uses to describe his first encounter with a home he now calls the Mounta...
It’s a classic challenge in an older neighborhood: How can a growing family increase their living space without expan...
Over the past 20 years, Jeffery Wyant and Maria Keares Wyant of Wyant Architecture in Philadelphia have become known ...
One unusually warm and sunny November day, a giant 225-ton crane deposited five prefab house modules onto a 25’ x 125...
For Dennis Wedlick, the conservation-minded architect who masterminded the Hudson Passive Project—New York State’s fi...
This renovated Manhattan townhouse proves once and for all that beauty and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.
A rural farmhouse dating back to 1789 gets a contemporary kitchen makeover.
While striving to honor the provenance of the original stone farmhouse, Wyant Architecture created a spacious and contemporary new family home.
Roughly half of the shipping containers that enter our ports never make it back to their points of origin. Not surprisingly, this growing glut of steel cargo cont...
Take the classic white box architecture popularized by Richard Meier and others in the 1960s and 70s and add the late...
Bob talks with homeowners Nick and Maggie Beasley, who are remodeling, babyproofing, and insulating their home before the baby is born.
In West Palm Beach, FL, the American Lung Association has sponsored a designer showhouse that highlights a healthy home. Bob’s house tour focuses on the baby’s ba...
Architect Mary Kennedy and Bob tour her Georgian Colonial family home in Westchester County, NY. After a flood ruined the house, the challenge was to salvage and ...
Bob and architect Gregory Rochlin tour the interior of Bob's 100-year-old Shingle Style home in Cambridge, MA.
Bob takes a tour of the Isaac Bell historic house in Newport, RI, exploring one of the finest examples of the Shingle Style to be found anywhere.
Bob meets with a local real estate broker and with homeowner Sarah Monzon, whose basement will be finished to create additional family space.
Bob meets with homeowner Sarah Monzon to recap the project, from the initial preparation to the renovations to the finishing touches.
Bob tours the open-plan family room and meets with Cecile to discuss cookware and accessories. Then he meets Meg Tarvin they move to the poolside lanai and the f...
Tom Fox, founder and former president of New York Water Taxi, takes Bob on a tour of the Brooklyn waterfront, highlighting various points of interest.
Eric Deutsch, former president of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, gives Bob a tour of the nation's first federal boat-building facility.
Evan Zgonis of Olympia Marble and Granite gives Bob a tour of the facility where the kitchen countertops being used in the modern Colonial house are manufactured.
Bob takes a visit to Casco, ME to learn more about the Hancock Land Company's sustainable forestry operation.
Bob revisits The Winterthur Garden and Museum, this time touring the Chinese Parlor with curator Pauline Eversmann.
Bob visits the Global Solar factory in Tucson, AZ to see how they company manufactures its unique solar-electric (photovoltaic) devices.
Bob takes a helicopter tour of the major reforestation efforts underway on Mount St. Helens.
Bob tours a model home in the Civano development, keeping his eye out for special features and decorating ideas.
Bob takes a look at the rear side, and kitchen, of the Habitat for Humanity Blitz Build project house in Yonkers, NY.
Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen joins Bob on a final tour of the house, and Guy Walters (from Thomasville) gives details on the Thomasville Hemin...
Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen joins Bob for a final tour of the completed interior.
Before heading to the governor's mansion in Richmond, VA, Bob tours some of the sights and sounds of the city.
Bob and Roxane Gilmore, the erstwhile first lady of Virginia, tour the governor's mansion, and meet preservationist Fred Ecker, who is removing a mantel for resto...
Bob tours Virginia House, which was once an English abbey. In the 1920s, it was shipped to Richmond stone by stone.
After the controlled demolition is complete, Bob tours the upstairs living quarters of the governor's mansion.
Bob takes a tour of Wickham House, a high-style museum designed by Alexander Parris, the architect of the Virginia governor's mansion.
Bob takes a tour of Shirley Plantation, the oldest operating family farm in America, located right on the James River.
Bob tours colonial Williamsburg, VA, stopping at the Royal Governor's Palace, where facilities manager Mark Winger gives a tour.
Bob takes a tour of the original Virginia Capitol Building, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785.
Bob tours the interior restoration of the Virginia governor's mansion.
Bob tours the finished restoration of the historic sections of the Virginia governor's mansion.
Bob visits a stainless steel fabrication shop to see how the kitchen counters for the loft project unit are made.
Bob tours the completed loft conversion with collaborating architect Lisa Shire.
Collaborating architect Lisa Shire accompanies Bob, as he continues his tour of the completed loft conversion.
Bob tours some of the grand old houses that remain from Roxbury's heyday at the turn of the century.
Bob visits the Lightolier manufacturing plant, which covers 6 acres, and receives a tour from the director of design, Bob Wetikin.
Bob visits the completed house and talks to the homeowners about their new home's new façade, with its completed porch and newly landscaped yard.
Bob tours a remarkable concrete building that's survived some of Miami's worst hurricanes: the majestic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.
Bob takes a tour of a William Randolph Hearst treasure: the ancient Spanish monastery that he Hearst had transported stone-by-stone from Spain to Miami.
Bob takes a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House.
Bob takes a tour of the CBS Studio Center, the first of the big movie lots, which eventually gave Studio City, CA its name.
Bob takes a private tour of the set of the television series Grace Under Fire, and meets some interesting characters along the way.
Bob tours the Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens to get some ideas for the Zen garden the homeowners will be installing in the side y...
Bob tours the home's exterior, noting that the crowned gates are complete and that a locking latch has been added to secure the pool. Bob also remarks on the land...
Bob tours the Sherwin-Williams paint manufacturing plant in Winter Haven, FL to see how paint is made.
Bob meets Betsy Johnson, owner of an 1805 Federal-style home in Charleston, the carriage house of which he now tours.
Bob returns to the William Gibbes House in Charleston, SC for a tour of the one-acre garden of this grand Georgian mansion, one of the nation's best examples of G...
Bob takes a tour of the elegantly appointed Guillard-Bennet House, one of the jewels in Charleston's crown.
Bob takes a grand tour of the elegantly restored Federal-style project house, focusing on the portico and back façade.
Bob takes a trip to New York City to tour the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, a spectacular, world-class museum greenhouse.
Bob, Martha, and the homeowner look at the plants in the new greenhouse. Martha explains why she selected certain plants and put thought into their placement.
Bob tours the mother of all cabins in the woods of upstate New York's Adirondack mountains, a camp once owned by the Vanderbilt family.
Bob visits the unusual home of TV star Max Gail in hopes of gathering design ideas.
Bob joins Bob Rogers of the Heritage Plantation, located in Sandwich, MA, for a tour of the post-and-beam Shaker round barn that houses the Josiah K. Lilly, III a...
Bob travels to Canada for a tour of the Ainsworth oriented strand board (OSB) mill, one of the most modern OSB factories in the world.
Bob tours the lavish interior of Chateau-sur-Mer in Newport, RI. The entrance walls are painted canvas and the ceiling is adorned by a fresco. Hand-carved walnut ...
Bob tours Cape May, one of the oldest beach resort areas in New Jersey, a town with many Victorian-era homes and hotels.
Bob takes a tour of Olana, a Victorian artist's mansion in Upstate New York, overlooking the Hudson River. Named after a Persian fortress/treasure house, Olana ha...
Bob tours the Boston Public Gardens and Boston harbor, then points out a few of his favorites buildings, including those in Beacon Hill. Next, Bob describes how t...
Bob meets with Lynn from the Shirley-Eustis Colonial Governor's Mansion Association. Together they tour the Federal-style home, noting an Irish crystal chandelier...
Bob meets with a project manager for the restoration of the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides", dry-docked in Boston Harbor. They review the 21-inch-thick hull ...
Bob travels to Fort Lauderdale, FL for a tour of the Bonnet House. The house, which was built for the Bartlett family in the 1920s and now operates as a museum.
Bob tours homes that were designed by Thomas Edison. Built in Maine before being shipped to Florida, the homes are surrounded by indiginous plantings, and the dec...
Bob tours the factory where the project house's custom crown molding is cut to custom specifications, while, back at the site, carpenter Bob Ryley struggles to in...
Bob takes a final tour through the nursery, office, kitchen, and family room.
Once the deck has been installed, Bob heads to picturesque Nantucket to see a very large and impressive backyard deck.
Bob takes a field trip to Plimoth Plantation, a replica village where visitors can experience early Colonial life.
In search of the perfect "cracker" cottage to remodel, Bob goes on a neighborhood tour of Naples, FL, both by car and by boat.
Bob takes a field trip to Keewaydin Island, where he tours an island cottage that was created by a colorful artist.
Bob joins the interior designer for a shopping trip. The designer aims to achieve a comfortable 1940s vintage look. Bob and the designer also visit an upholstery ...
Bob tours the finished exterior with general contractor Ron Gan before going inside to see Christine Smyth’s spectacular decorating job.
Bob finishes the interior tour with the kitchen and master bedroom. Then, Bob, general contractor Ron Gan, and realtor Catherine Caravette sum up the renovation.
Bob tours the Oak Park, IL studio of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Bob goes on to visit several nearby houses designed by Wright at the turn of the century.
Bob tours the completed living room and dining room of the coach house, then heads down into the basement to see the work that's been done on the heating system.
General contractor Buba Barrow joins Bob for a tour of the finish work and interior layout, starting on the tiled front porch, moving through the open-plan family...
Bob and general contractor Tim Berky look back on the numerous aspects of the finished job. Then Bob tours the remodeled mudroom and bath, plus the new open kitch...
Homeowners David Masher and Jeanne Sanviti-Masher provide Bob with a tour of the interior of their 1890s Victorian home in Rowley, MA.
