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Primrose Hill is a northwest London neighborhood famous for its topography -- the hill offers skyline views -- and envy-producing, village-like charm. The district has Georgian- and Victorian-era terrace houses [...]

The actor Charlie Carver bought a 755-square-foot house, beating out developers who wanted to tear it down. Then he needed a designer who shared his eccentric vision. Before Los Angeles [...]

The 900-square-foot house had three bedrooms, but the children's were shoe-box size. Updating them required ingenuity and ideas from ''An American in Paris.'' Much has been written about ''good enough'' [...]

The constantly changing neighborhood may share a border with Bushwick, Brooklyn, but residents want you to know 'you're in Queens, bro.' For Bikash Kharel, who runs a Nepali restaurant in [...]

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 [...]

The Ulster County town with its quaint village has attracted creative urban transplants for decades with the promise of new beginnings. For 51 years, Johanna Hall has been living in [...]

The Mercer County town has long attracted affluent professionals who take on long commutes in return for the charming setting and top-rated schools. After living in Manhattan for 25 years, [...]

New Yorkers scouring northern towns for second homes have pushed prices up and made it harder for locals to find affordable homes. Meghan McCann, a sales representative for a wine [...]

A Craftsman cottage in Montgomery, a converted church in Keene and a Greek Revival house in Quincy. Montgomery, Ala. | $349,000 A 1918 Craftsman-style cottage with four bedrooms and three [...]

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 house in the rocks? Something from Versailles? If you have the money, they can make it happen. This article is part of our latest special report on Design , [...]

The picture-postcard neighborhood is filled with enviable rowhouses and diverse shopping and restaurants -- and the housing costs reflect that. Ann Rathkopf came full circle in 2018, when she and [...]

There are affordable homes and plenty of things to do in this picturesque Dutchess County town. What's missing: a town center and wastewater management. Ann Weiser and Neil Krupnick moved [...]

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 [...]

A modernist showplace in Taghkanic, a 1937 French chateau-style house in Denver and a duplex condominium in an 1880 Victorian in San Francisco. Taghkanic, N.Y. | $2.9 Million A custom-built [...]

In the first century B.C., the Roman poet Horace wrote, ''Reason and sense remove anxiety/Not villas that look out upon the sea.'' Two thousand years later -- reasonable or not [...]

An architectural alien dressed in shingles and passing itself off as just another roomy East Hampton beach house -- no one will be fooled -- is on the market at [...]

MILAN -- The winding staircase of the Palazzo Serbelloni was jammed with visitors photographing the bulbous Venezia lamps that Marcel Wanders designed for Louis Vuitton. The designers at the International [...]

On weekdays, Peter Kuper can be found on the Upper West Side, steeped in the angsty writings of dead European novelists. On weekends, it is a different story. That's when [...]

There is a place in New Jersey with rolling farmland and waterfalls, where foxes trot and black bears lumber. Where stone buildings date to the Revolutionary War and locals cry [...]

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 [...]

Carversville, Pa. | $1.795 Million A renovated 1773 stone barn with four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms This property is about 15 minutes northwest of New Hope and [...]

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 [...]

Los Angeles | $1.9 Million A 1934 Spanish Colonial revival house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms This one-story stucco house is one of 147 Spanish Revival homes -- each [...]

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 [...]

Gary Gerth, 74, the recently elected town supervisor of Shelter Island, described this sylvan knob of land tucked in the crook of the East End of Long Island as ''an [...]

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 [...]

Margaret Nash is a forensic engineer at a company that specializes in architectural restoration. ''If there's something wrong with a building, I'll find it,'' she said. Two years ago, her [...]

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 [...]

Compared with Isaac Nicoll, who died in the Battle of Gettysburg and is memorialized with a headstone carved with acanthus leaves in a local cemetery, Linda Standish is a newcomer [...]

At the northeast corner of Mill Basin sits a shopping center with a celebrated pizzeria called La Villa. Sniff the air, however, and you won't smell oregano. The odor is [...]

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 [...]

Rahman Vahabzadeh, an investment company executive, and his wife, Lyra, left Greenwich Village 11 years ago in search of the usual suburban amenities: bigger closets, gardening opportunities, rambling room for [...]

Twelve years ago, when Lisa Schwarzbaum was buying a second home, she could have picked the antithesis of her Upper West Side apartment: a rural spread, miles away from the [...]

In 1999, when Lili Neuhauser first set eyes on a converted carriage house with stone walls and old peony bushes in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., she said to her real estate [...]

Back in 1987, when Jessica Burdman and her then-husband were shopping for a house in San Francisco, they found themselves priced out of their popular Noe Valley neighborhood. They looked [...]

At the end of the day, when Dennis Herrera is done with projects like suing the developers of San Francisco's notoriously sinking Millennium Tower, he goes home to his solidly [...]

For Meaghan Hannan Davant, Capitol Hill is not the throbbing, recently convulsed heart of political power in Washington, D.C., but an unpretentious small town. ''People don't wear makeup,'' said Ms. [...]

David and Donna Feldman were looking for a balance between modernist rigor and antique embellishment when they began to produce their own furniture out of a workroom in Chelsea. They [...]

In our family, it is my job to build and poke at fires in our wood-burning fireplace. I use wrought-iron tools I bought on eBay, and they have served me [...]

When you're a textile artist praised for lush floor coverings, there is only one way to go, and that is up. Earlier this month, at Ralph Pucci's Miami showroom, the [...]

In 1966, Hans Harald Rath of the Austrian company J. & L. Lobmeyr traveled to New York to present his design for chandeliers for the Metropolitan Opera House at the [...]