Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Built in 1829, the historic Poggensee home has a well-preserved facade and radically reenvisioned, monochromatic living spaces.

GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

With its thatched-roofed and Tudor-style chimney stacks, this historic five-bedroom cottage in Essex, England, known as Gloriana, looks like something out of a fairytale. “This house is one of the ...

Nothing can give you that perfect feeling of relaxation and well-being better than a cozy wood cabin in the middle of nature. As the tiny living movement continues to expand all over the globe, that’s ...

A local group hopes that this Irish thatched cottage can be opened as a museum if it can be repaired and restored to its former glory. The friends of the current owners of Phil Barron's House, in ...

The roof of Harty's Cottage, an 18th century thatched cottage in Drogheda, County Louth, was badly damaged in the fire on Wednesday, March 25. The fire was started just before midnight on Tuesday ...

The water reed thatch on Coldwell Cottage at Staveley Lane, Eckington is rotten in places with the deterioration most visible where it covers the Georgian part of the building. It now requires ...