Historic homes often come with interesting past lives. (Think: churches, factories, and more, turned into living spaces suitable for singles, couples, and entire families.) In the case of Emily ...

The owners of this heritage-status building now have an updated living space. As some local observers have noted, many of these Victorian shops were intended as a typology that combines commercial ...

Decades before today's homestead look, Welsh lifestyle guru Laura Ashley was selling a rural, nostalgic idyll. Now, her rose-tinted vision of a "simple life" is more popular than ever.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Tiny house living, especially the kind that attracts the most attention on social media and with the media, is tinged with a certain hippie vibe, where the focus falls on sustainability, vegan living, ...

Having successfully renovated their South End triplex, this design-savvy couple was ready for a new project. They found a 21-foot-wide Victorian town house, complete with a backyard, on a street with ...

“The Dress Diary” is an intimate record of one wardrobe — and its era. Anne Sykes’s collection of fabric remnants, lovingly preserved in an album, documents not merely her life but the Victorian era.

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