Welcome to Movie Monday, when I post photos of the houses from our favorite films. Today I’m featuring Housesitter, a romantic comedy with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn that came out in 1992 and has remained one of my favorites ever since. Even though I have watched this movie more times than I can count, [...]
Diane Keaton has put her Spanish Colonial Revival-style, Beverly Hills mansion on the market for about $11.9 million. It reminded me of the beautiful photos published in Architectural Digest of her home last year. It was built in 1927 by architect Ralph Flewelling and has 7 bedrooms and 9 baths. Keaton purchased it only 2 [...]
This English Arts & Crafts-style home was built in 1895 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was renovated a few years ago by the late architect Terry Brown, who created the unusual “Mushroom House” that I showed you yesterday, so of course there wouldn’t be anything “ordinary” about it! Here’s what it looked like when a few [...]
The Mushroom House (sometimes referred to as “The Tree House”) in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the home and studio of architect Terry Brown, who taught architecture and interior design at the University of Cincinnati. He worked on this house from 1992-2006 with his architecture students helping him add to it. They say it was “always growing.”
It’s [...]
“A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.” -Sarah Susanka
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Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things we love. Today I’m hooked on Not [...]
What do you think of the two-story family rooms that have sprung up all over suburbia? It’s a trend that seems to have been spurred on by the McMansion movement. Everyone wants their house to look grand, and what better way than to have soaring ceilings and cathedral-sized windows? I’ll never forget the first time [...]
Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels of all time, so I have made a point of watching every movie version I could find over the years. I’ve seen the ones with Orson Welles, William Hurt, Timothy Dalton, and Ciaran Hinds. I know it’s widely debated among Jane Eyre fans, but the best one [...]
Architect Richard Neutra designed the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, in 1947, and it still stands as a prime example of modernist architecture.
The house was commissioned by Edgar Kaufmann, a department-store tycoon, who had hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build Fallingwater in Pennsylvania the decade before. After Kaufmann died in 1955, his Palm Springs [...]
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Vera Wang’s historic oceanfront villa is on the market in Palm Beach for $19 million. The mansion was designed in 1923 by famed society architect Addison Mizner, and the town of Palm Beach has declared it a local landmark.
The sprawling estate has 11 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, as well as 9 additional bedrooms in separate [...]
We had a discussion in the comments over the weekend about Stickley Furniture, and not everyone was sure what it was that we were talking about, so I decided to do a post about it. It’s one of those things that you probably recognize now that you see it (in the photos above), but just [...]
