Editor’s note: Welcome to the third installment of This Ugly House, a reader renovation diary. We’re excited to publish this tale of a hands-on renovation of a wood-frame house in Bed Stuy. The author ...

At 5,000-plus square feet and chock full of intact detail, the circa-1910 Neo-Federal brick row house was grand to begin with. Its main drawback? The kitchen’s placement in a rear extension, closed ...

This detached, 19th-century house in London’s Camberwell features a dramatic glass rear extension that is set over two stories and has wide views of its tropical garden. The ground floor of the ...