I’m crazy about porches. The strange thing is that it’s so hard to find houses with them any more. In our entire neighborhood, a subdivision less than 7 years old, there are only a handful of houses that have them. When we built ours, we paid the builder extra to change the front elevation and [...]
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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 [...]
Suburban Slums? The Atlantic warns that the subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements. This is one scary story (don’t read it at night with the lights off). According to the article, foreclosures are ripping through once-safe and tidy neighborhoods, leaving havoc [...]
I have to tell you that I love this new book, House Lust: America’s Obsession with Our Homes, by Daniel McGinn ($24.95, hardcover). And if you’re hooked on houses like I am, then I think you’ll love it, too.
Want a free copy?
I’ve decided to send a copy of the book to one lucky winner as a way of [...]
Check out HGTV’s Dream Home Sweepstakes if you haven’t already. You can enter once a day between now and February 19 to win this amazing house in the Florida Keys (if you can see it behind the hulking GMC Yukon in the foreground, which is sort of spoiling the view). I don’t know about you, but entering this Sweepstakes [...]
