Artists and bohemians from Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe and Maverick arts and crafts colonies in the early 1900s inspired a second wave of handmade home builders in the 1970s. The Maverick Concert Hall, ...

Handmade Houses takes us on a delightful journey back to the heady and rebellious days of the 1960s and ’70s, when green design—the world of reduce, reuse, and recycle—was sired. Its author, Richard ...

A woman's very own gingerbread house looks like it's right out of a Hansel and Gretel storybook. Photos of the home were posted on Reddit's "Pics" forum. The user boasted about their "mom's real-life, ...

Home, it’s said, is that place where your soul finds its solace. No wonder, then, that when it comes to some of America’s most inspired souls — artists and craftsmen, all — the walls, the roof, even ...

Henry Petroski really likes his summer house. It's a two-bedroom cedar-shingle on the Kennebec River in Maine, a woodsy getaway built by a painstaking do-it-yourselfer in the 1950s. But to the house's ...