WORTHWHILE DINING-ROOM décor always boasts at least a touch of drama. “You use the room for celebrations, especially in a bigger house,” explains Todd Nickey, half of Los Angeles-based design studio ...

Storybook style was born from the imaginations of Hollywood designers seeking to re-create medieval Europe for movie sets. As with most things from Hollywood, fans took notice and so did architects ...

The Thatch House in Charlevoix, Mich. will make all your storybook dreams come true. The vacation house looks like a giant mushroom from the outside, while its interior feels like its own cozy, shabby ...

For an exhibition at the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, they unveiled Lift House — a red, storybook cottage that ...

Yet stubbornly wedged within all that modernity is a gathering of low-slung abodes fit for the Shire: the Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, aka the Hobbit Houses. With their ...

Chico writer/photographer Doug Keister (www.douglaskeister.com) has teamed with architect and syndicated columnist Arrol Gellner for a study of what they call “consummate artifice.” Their sumptuously ...

The San Antonio Botanical Garden will be a little more magical than usual between March 5 and July 10. It’s teaming up with the San Antonio chapter of The American Institute of Architects for ...

Extravagance abounds throughout a nearly 22-acre landscape in Alamo. Obviously the 20,467-square-foot Storybook mansion is the focal point of 7 Country Lane, though manicured gardens, verdant ...

A “Storybook house” on South Yale Street in Spring Garden Township, once a Hollywood dream, devolved into a nightmare as its whimsical wood shingle roof that had endured for almost a century was ...

Storybook style was born from the imaginations of Hollywood designers seeking to re-create medieval Europe for movie sets. As with most things from Hollywood, fans took notice and so did architects ...