Historic homes often come with interesting past lives. (Think: churches, factories, and more, turned into living spaces suitable for singles, couples, and entire families.) In the case of Emily ...

Often, when people choose a home or apartment, a deciding factor is the home’s bones — its big features that are more or less permanent, like the foundation, framing, roof, and so on. For example, ...

"Be very gentle with old homes," this designer says. But that doesn't mean you can't go bold with paint! Yahoo Life Shopping ...

Q:We live in an 1885 Victorian, and what baffles me is how to use the front room. The traffic pattern cuts the room through the middle. One side has ended up a catch-all for grandchildren's toy box, a ...

When you come across a great vintage piece of furniture, the idea of renovations or revamping it may not even cross your mind. Victorian pieces, for example, are made with top-quality materials and ...

A cast-iron range used as a dresser and Victorian underskirts reinvented as lightshades – the London home of one creative duo breathes quirky new life into antiques. Bridget Dwyer and David Grocott in ...

A hallmark of a designer’s impact can be measured by how her work lives on after her death. At a lovingly kept five-bedroom Victorian in Parnassus Heights, the top-floor pent room evidences the legacy ...

If the furniture fit — both literally and stylewise — Eloise Wall was buying. But it took a while to find the perfect place. Wall was coming from a large Victorian home she had moved in 1973 from ...

Plans to transform a locally listed Victorian house into a 28-room ‘co-living space’ in Newham have been refused. The plans, from Dilawar Properties Ltd, were criticised by planning officers who said ...