I wrote a special feature about the Sears Roebuck pre-fabricated houses that I illustrated with images of houses I discovered on the Eastern ...

The singer's former SoHo home features exposed brick walls, original wooden columns, a gas fireplace, and high ceilings – ...

Sure, we’ve all seen brick houses, but have you ever seen one with zigzag patterns built into the side using different colored bricks? In the 18th century, Quaker farmers built more than 100 of these ...

Any New Yorker who has explored the city’s plethora of coffee shops has undoubtedly encountered a pattern of homogenization. Many cafes that follow the formula of a single brick wall, polished ...

If your hardwood floors were installed quite some time ago and have undergone lots of wear and tear over the years, it might be time to spruce them up. This can get confusing if you don't know whether ...

Choose spiral-shank or ring-shank; both types grip the wood more strongly than smooth-shank nails. You don’t need a nail set or fill stick. Job one is to locate the joists — the under-floor ...

In our robotic vacuum lab, we measure how well each model is able to remove surface debris from bare floors (hardwood and laminate). We also gauge each one’s ability to navigate the nooks and ...

But before investing in new flooring, you should be mindful of the one hardwood floor pattern that you should leave in the past, which is the use of narrow planks. Narrow hardwood planks were very ...