Hooked on Houses

By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET

Another popular shelter magazine is shutting down. The disturbing trend started with House & Garden last November. Since then, three more magazines–Home, O at Home, and now Cottage Living–have published their final issues. Here’s the cover of Cottage Living’s November-December ‘08 issue, which will be its last.
According to the New York Post:
With [...]

November 24th, 2008 | Tags: Cottage Living, O at Home, Oprah, Polls, publishing, shelter magazines | Category: Polls | Comments (39)

Have you heard of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses? The company was founded by Jay Shafer, who built a tiny house for himself in 1997. A lot of people expressed interest in it, so he began designing and building them for others who want to live a simpler life.
He says, “My decision to inhabit just 96 square [...]

August 22nd, 2008 | Tags: green homes, Jay Shafer, Oprah, small house | Category: Green Home, House Tour, Tiny Houses | Comments (34)

Recognize this house? It’s the one that the talented artist Fifi Flowers painted for our Blog Party Button! Can you spot the changes I asked her to make?
I’m going to kick off this Hooked on House Tours Blog Party by giving you a tour of this beautiful white house. Then I’ll be posting the links [...]

August 4th, 2008 | Tags: "The Secret, blog party, Decorating, entertainment, Father of the Bride, House Tour, movie sets, Oprah | Category: House Tour | Comments (58)

Country crooner Kenny Rogers is selling his 9,000 square-foot mansion in Atlanta, Georgia, for $7.95 million. (Should I try to make a joke here about how, when it comes to real estate, Rogers knows when to hold ‘em. . .and he knows when to fold ‘em? Um, probably not, if I want you to [...]

May 28th, 2008 | Tags: Atlanta, celebrity houses, country music, Decorating, Famous Houses, Georgia, House Tour, Kenny Rogers, music, Oprah, plastic surgery, Real Estate | Category: Celebrity Style, Famous Houses | Comments (16)

Billy Joel released his first hit single, “The Piano Man,” in 1973. He has since become a six-time Grammy winner with 33 top 40 hits and more than 150 million records sold worldwide. Joel announced that he was “retiring” from pop music in 1993 but has continued to tour, sometimes with Elton John.
Today [...]

April 17th, 2008 | Tags: Billy Joel, Bobby Flay, Christie Brinkley, cookbooks, Elton John, entertainment, Famous Houses, food, Hamptons, House Tour, Katie Joel, music, Oprah, Padma Lakshmi, piano, pop music, Rachael Ray, Real Estate, Top Chef | Category: Famous Houses | Comments (16)

See that tiny blue house wedged in between the white and red ones? It was built in 1830 and is only 7 feet wide. (And here I complain about my family room being too narrow!) The Spite House, as it’s called, has two stories but only 325 square feet. It even appears to be considerably [...]

March 3rd, 2008 | Tags: historic homes, House Tour, Nate Berkus, odd news, Oprah, small spaces, spite house, virginia | Category: Historical Homes, Tiny Houses | Comments (18)