"The goal was to look at things from 500, 700, 800 years ago that are still useful," says homeowner Wes Crouch. "Simple, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas home If there’s one architectural style that says “suburbia,” it’s this type of home design. Comfortable in design and ...

A ranch is a single-story house distinguished by a low-profile design, wide-open layout, and an asymmetrical facade while accenting the relationship between indoor and outdoor living. Ranches, also ...

No stairs, no pretense — this house said exactly what it meant.

We may think the California Ranch evolved organically, descended from Spanish Rancheros married to modernist design. While those are the California Ranch’s ancestors, a California native, Clifford May ...

There’s a lot to love about the common ranch-style house. Most of the horizontal, ground-hugging ramblers built for middle-class families in the 1950s and 1960s boom years had hardwood floors, brick ...

With a booming population and economy in the U.S. after World War II, hordes of GIs and others wanted their own homes, and builders found an answer that was both easy and appealing: the ranch house.

In Northern California’s Sea Ranch, a community that spans 10 miles of Sonoma County coastline known for its rugged natural splendor, one of the newest houses is deferential to the landscape by design ...