What a mortgage plumbing deal means for the cost of getting a loan
Vesta lenders can now route verification work through Mezzo's one-to-many gateway — a press release claim worth reading with care.
Rosa MarchettiArchitecture
Practices, projects and the materials they specify: how a building meets the street, ages in weather, and what its details cost to maintain.
What is an ADU, and how does adding one to your property actually work?
Backyard cottages and garage conversions are having a moment. Here's what an accessory dwelling unit legally is, what it costs to build one, and where the rules trip people up.
Karim Al-Rashid
The double-height room, and why it came back
Two-story living spaces went from Victorian status to modernist cliché to the most requested feature in new apartments — the reasons are physics and psychology.
Rosa Marchetti
Why glass block keeps coming back
Borrowed light without a borrowed view: the century-old masonry of privacy has survived Art Deco, disco, and the 1980s — and it's creeping into new bathrooms again.
Rosa Marchetti
The prefab house arrives in pieces on purpose
Factory-built homes deliver in days what site builders take months to frame — and the method's history is longer and stranger than the box jokes suggest.
Karim Al-Rashid