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The sharing economy has come to apartment buildings -- and landlords have discovered a new way to attract tenants. Brooke Renteria moved to a studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from [...]

The owner of The Quiet Botanist and her husband, a painter and photographer, have listed their barn-turned-home in Stuyvesant, N.Y., for sale. What could be more peaceful than sheep grazing [...]

The Victorian seaside resort has long attracted those with primary homes in Philadelphia. But now more New Yorkers are moving in. Stephanie and Jeffrey Schrader, who live near Philadelphia, had [...]

A 1769 townhouse in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia, an 1898 home in Denver and a 1997 postmodern house designed by Michael Graves in Austin. Philadelphia | $1.3 Million [...]

A waterfront retreat on 76 acres in mid-coast Maine, a custom-designed home in Houston and an 1871 house by McKim Mead & White in Piermont. Orland, Maine | $1.25 Million [...]

A waterfront bungalow on Bainbridge Island, a modern sanctuary in Los Angeles and an expanded late 18th-century farmhouse on more than 85 acres in Dummerston. Bainbridge Island, Wash. | $1.125 [...]

A 1940 colonial in Bennington, a 1925 clapboard house in Mankato and a 1938 home in Reading. Mankato, Minn. | $254,900 A two-story clapboard house built in 1925, with three [...]

An 1836 house in New Orleans, a condo in a converted Gothic Revival church in Washington and a clapboard farmhouse on six acres in the Hudson Valley. New Orleans | [...]

A beach house in Watsonville, a duplex loft in San Francisco and a Craftsman-style home with a guest cottage in Santa Barbara. Watsonville | $1.995 Million A 1978 custom-designed beach [...]

Newport, R.I. | $849,990A condominium with two bedrooms and two bathrooms in an 1863 Second Empire-style house with private outdoor space and a gazeboGeorge Champlin Mason Sr., who built several [...]

Cave Creek, Ariz. | $1.5 MillionA modern glass house in the Sonoran Desert, with three bedrooms and three and a half bathroomsDesigned by Michael P. Johnson, this much-published 2007 building [...]

Oakland, Calif. | $1.395 Million A midcentury-modern house in the Oakland Hills, with six bedrooms, three bathrooms and San Francisco Bay views Designed by Norris Gaddis, the architect of the [...]

SUFFOLK 9 Owls Nest Lane A five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath house built in 2006 with a front porch, a mud/laundry room, a two-car garage, a pool, an outdoor kitchen, a wood deck, [...]

SUFFOLK 36 Beach Way A two-bedroom, one-bath rustic fishing cottage built in 1928 and owned by the same family for three generations, with wood-paneled ceilings and unimpeded views of the [...]

SUFFOLK 445 Wood Lane A four-bedroom, two-bath house built in 1958 with a deepwater dock on 0.25 of an acre. Marie Beninati, Beninati Associates; 631-765-5333, beninatiassociates.com TAXES $10,058 a year [...]

SUFFOLK 59 Sandune Court A five-bedroom, five-full- and two-half-bath house built in 2004 with a library, three fireplaces, a screened porch, a two-car garage, and a 45-foot heated gunite pool [...]

SUFFOLK 17 Congdon Road A two-bedroom, two-bath, wood-sided house built in 1972 and designed in a curving shape like a nautilus shell, with a conversation pit, a gunite pool, a [...]

Kansas City, Mo. WHAT A house built in 1916, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a pool HOW MUCH $799,000 SIZE 2,502 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT $319 SETTING [...]

Clem Labine bought his Brooklyn brownstone in Park Slope more than 50 years ago for the then-princely sum of $25,000. The 1883 house at 199 Berkeley Place had been turned [...]

Old Lyme, Conn. WHAT A circa 1820 house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms HOW MUCH $549,000 SIZE 3,350 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT $164 SETTING [...]

29 Gaylord Drive North A five-bedroom, four-bath colonial-style brick home with marble staircase and saltwater in-ground pool, built in 2001 on 0.1 acre, listed at $2.999 million. 718-763-4110 6215 Strickland [...]

In 1989, Carl and Sally Gable, a couple from Atlanta, paid $2 million for a 16th-century villa in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy. The building, which they used as [...]

In October 2012, when Hurricane Sandy struck Breezy Point, destroying about 350 houses by flooding and fire and damaging hundreds more, Jamie Hogan was living near Laguna Beach, Calif. Two [...]

Tigers may be endangered, but wool Tibetan tiger rugs are even more so. ''There's only about 108 of them ever discovered and brought out of Tibet,'' said Sogyel Lhungay, vice [...]

On Sept. 24, in an avant-garde condo tower that butts up against the High Line, an unusual gallery called Chamber will open in Chelsea. Like a 17th-century cabinet of curiosities, [...]

No question, Buddy Warren's first Manhattan antiques store, Cranberry Hole Road, was an original. It had a coffee bar downstairs and a place for Mr. Warren to conduct family therapy [...]

It has been 40 years since the French furniture company Roche Bobois planted a flag in the United States, but only recently did it invite an American to design for [...]

The historic Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles is known as a setting for ''Blade Runner.'' But on Saturday it will present another kind of future when Gallery ALL, a [...]

The luxurious plastic for which the Italian furniture company Kartell is famous has assumed a new purpose -- and an old one. Next month the company will introduce tableware by [...]

Forty years ago, Roche Bobois, the French producer of lush modern furniture, opened its first American showroom on Madison Avenue and 35th Street in New York. Gilles Bonan, the company's [...]

The sofa of my dreams is low and blocky, with cushions covered in different fabrics. It has big, cheerful buttons tacked on the back and a casual asymmetry that invites [...]

A new plate is helping to modify eating habits. Control plates, produced by Slim & Sage, are nine inches in diameter and designed with a pattern easily divided into quarters. [...]

A reporter sprinkled cocoa powder onto light gray carpet, then ground in cheese-flavored tortilla chips with her heel. She picked up the new Dyson DC44 Digital Slim cordless vacuum cleaner [...]

BETWEEN the queen's diamond jubilee celebration in June and the Olympic Games beginning Friday, this has been a banner year for British memorabilia. Sixteen dollars, more or less, will buy [...]

IT'S not just the summer heat that's driving the bounty of new outdoor designs -- it's the avidity. ''Everybody's doing it,'' said Henry Andrew Hall, founder of the outdoor furniture [...]

WITH booming e-commerce and the proliferation of showrooms that encourage anyone to wander in off the street, design is so closely within reach that the average shopper doesn't have to [...]

When a pair of married New York artists with interesting hair decide to paint glassware as Christmas presents, it's a sure bet the designs won't be candy canes. In the [...]