Escaping the concrete jungle, avoiding the rent cost of an apartment or high mortgage rates are not big challenges anymore. With tiny houses rising to the surface, people start to realize that there ...

Pity the poor interior wall. For decades, home improvement gurus and do-it-yourselfers have been smashing it to smithereens. If you've turned on HGTV any time in the last decade, you've probably seen ...

At first glance, this Urbandale, Iowa home for sale looks like any other modern home in new, suburban developments. With its vertical siding and a color palette like a domino piece, it’s the sort of ...

The open concept main floor plan is alive and well on HGTV. But there is a deeper reason to why every show on the network uses it. While open concept main floors might sound good in theory — ...

Open-concept houses have been a homeowner's dream for many decades, getting introduced in the 1950s and becoming the norm for most newly built houses by the 1990s. They became highly sought after due ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." He wasn't the only up-and-comer ready to close the book on open concept. "I miss closed-concept living. I ...

Design shows are all about tearing down walls and opening up spaces, but what’s wrong with a little more privacy and a little less togetherness? By Ronda Kaysen At some point, the previous owners of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. For the past few decades, the sledgehammer has begun most ...

While kitchens are a hot spot to gather during parties today, most pre-1940s homeowners would have shuddered at welcoming guests into the cooking area. Kitchens were relegated to the back of the house ...

Two public meetings are slated next week, one in Glenwood Springs and another in Gypsum, to introduce conceptual plans for improving Cottonwood Pass as an alternative east-west route for local ...