1 A new bar with a beverage fridge is removed from the cooking area so guests can help themselves without being underfoot.

Modern farmhouses often incorporate a standing seam metal roof, board-and-batten or clapboard siding, and open floor plans ...

Cayley Lambur, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Electric Bowery, transformed this house into a unique urban retreat.

“I typically build Craftsman-style duplexes, but I wanted to venture ... monochromatic feel that we were after,” Maria says. Since the kitchen occupies most of the main-floor footprint ...