House Proud
Exhausted by a House That Saves Energy
By SANDY KEENAN
A labor-intensive effort to build an energy-efficient home in Vermont leads to misgivings.
Estate auctions of the wealthy and famous give the rest of us a chance to buy a piece of a unique taste-maker. But at what price?
A labor-intensive effort to build an energy-efficient home in Vermont leads to misgivings.
Following parental examples, a Miami couple tackle the ultimate hands-on project: building their own home.
Unexpected materials make festive wreaths, and a dash of glitter never hurts.
When it comes to selecting the right white, it’s hard to go wrong.
Heidi Chisholm and Sharon Lombard, expatriate South Africans, discuss their design company, Mr. Somebody and Mr. Nobody, which makes an appearance during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Rope, woven into a thick, comfortable seat, upholsters Benjamin Klebba’s Harbor chair.
A general store in Oregon gives the design entrepreneur Tyler Hays a chance to flex his many creative muscles.
For his second career, Bill Hudnut turns out elegant ceramics.
Vintage German Christmas tree stands will be sold at Philip Colleck Ltd.
Sales on rugs, porcelain and lighting.
This week’s properties include four-bedroom homes in Katohah, N.Y., and Clifton, N.J.
The housing market in Los Cabos, Mexico, had been improving but was dealt a setback by the recent hurricane.
This week’s properties include modern houses in California and Missouri and a Lowcountry design in South Carolina.
In Three Oaks, Michigan, a passive house that happens to be a laboratory.
Kevin Walz’s East Harlem apartment has textures, colors and artifacts influenced by a long Italian sojourn.
A house veiled in corrugated aluminum panels with countless cutouts of the Hebrew word for “love.”
A bigger apartment required a radically new attitude about what went into it.
A whitewashed brownstone in Harlem, where the rooms have names and the chai is brewed to perfection.
Described as a “ranch burger,” the house in Columbia County was remade to order.
An artist prepares her house in New Orleans for its next adventure: the end of the world.
This year’s gift guide invites you to consider a bicycle bell that makes 25 sounds, a 16-foot lamp made of rope and a vase named after the disgraced wife of Emperor Claudius.
The Queen West Art and Design District of Toronto occupies the sweet spot between scared off and priced out.
An ambitious developer sees a future for the Miami Design District that includes high-fashion stores and high-end restaurants.
Design shops and galleries enliven Philadelphia’s Old City, whose Colonial roots are just one part of the story.
An insider’s guide to what to eat, drink and do in New York, including a category on our favorite home furnishing stores, compiled by the editors and reporters in the Home section and T Magazine.