Ongwiseth also considered the fantastic Storybook design of the house in creating his design. As visitors will see, there is a sense of mystery and exploration as you walk from the front to the back.

With crooked timbers, cockeyed chimneys and details that range from medieval to mirthful, Storybook Style houses seem less like actual homes than Hollywood sets. As it turns out, that’s where ...

A storybook cottage wants a palette of earthen tones — creams, browns, rusts and other colors that tie the house to the ground. But that doesn’t mean a storybook cottage shouldn’t have pinks ...

A Tour of 1930s-Era ’Storybook’ House in Los Angeles How Los Angeles-based design firm Nickey Kehoe modernized this stylistically eccentric home ...

Diary of a Worm. Written by Doreen Cronin • Storybook house design by Christopher Drown and Lauran Drown, of Bucrane Design Build, and Alicia Mendez, of Estella Mendez Art Company.

Besides designing houses with Hillen and other developers, he published a magazine, the Home Designer and Garden Beautiful, and books of home plans. He also sold house plans of his own design and ...

Storybook style was born from the imaginations of Hollywood designers seeking to re-create medieval Europe ... “This was essentially the game that Doug and I had to play to spot storybook houses.

Features: This eight-bedroom Storybook mansion occupies a 21.48-acre private estate that’s home to a 12-car vehicle barn, a detached two-bedroom guesthouse, an aviary, a dog spa and a tree house ...

A lot has changed since the designers last decorated Kalpana’s place. Before, it was just her and her husband, Arun. Now, they were a family of four hoping to put their stamp on a house that was ...

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 ...

The Hlaffer-Courcier house built, in 1923 Los Angeles, probably was inspired by Harry Oliver’s Tam O’Shanter restaurant design. (Courtesy photo Douglas Keister) ...