WASHINGTON — Meg Hanlon was looking for a small place to start over with her two children. At the same time, a five-room bungalow in suburban Chevy Chase, Md., where one woman had lived for more ...

It’s just another small, suburban house — and an uglier-than-average one at that. I’d be willing to bet that 99 out of 100 Americans driving by wouldn’t give the cottage a second look.

Architect Adam Kalkin decided to enclose his cottage in an airplane hangar. — -- When it came to his home, architect and artist Adam Kalkin wasn't thinking of a white picket fence. Instead ...

The 900-square-foot house had three bedrooms, but the children’s were shoe-box size. Updating them required ingenuity and ideas from “An American in Paris.” 11 Photos View Slide Show › By ...

Say what you want about the new urbanists—whose ventures into suburban community-planning the architectural avant-garde regularly castigates as “nostalgic” and “Disneyfied”—like the ...