Articles by Kathleen McCleary

The Strathcona area of Vancouver, British Columbia, started as a carpenters’ neighborhood, says designer Tanya Mclean, owner and creative director of Mango Design Co. Row houses and cottages for millworkers, as well as some shops and a school, sprang up around Hastings Mill in the late 1800s and early…

When a local restaurateur approached architect Laura Baggett and told her that he wanted a house “with the same flavor” as his restaurants, she was hooked. “He didn’t want a big house,” Baggett says, “but he wanted to explore how to make it different and funky.” The project, in Dallas’ Knox Street neighborhood,…

When a local restaurateur approached architect Laura Baggett and told her that he wanted a house “with the same flavor” as his restaurants, she was hooked. “He didn’t want a big house,” Baggett says, “but he wanted to explore how to make it different and funky.” The project, in Dallas’ Knox Street neighborhood,…

Picture this: a summer cottage on a river near the ocean with high, open ceilings and simple wood floors, a place where you can relax and not worry about tracking mud into the house or squeezing in an extra overnight guest. Add some terrific local fishing — South Carolina low country redfish, anyone?…

Imagine the sounds of the surf crashing just outside your bedroom window, in a home where the windows and the very lines of the house itself echo the curves of the waves below. That’s the Wave House, an iconic home built on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean by noted architect Michael Carmichael in…

Imagine the sounds of the surf crashing just outside your bedroom window, in a home where the windows and the very lines of the house itself echo the curves of the waves below. That’s the Wave House, an iconic home built on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean by noted architect Michael Carmichael in…

Ocean, sky, wetlands, tidal pools, arboreal forest — nature beckons from every room of this custom house on the site of a former “saltwater farm” in Maine. “From the beginning, the clients said, ‘We want this to feel like a summer camp for our kids,’” says Russell Tyson, who designed the home with architect…