Q: We live in a co-op in New York City that has four buildings spread over several city blocks. The board is redoing the lobbies and landscaping, and wants to permanently close one of the three entrances to our building. This would mean that my husband, who uses a walker, would have to walk an extra city block each time he came and...

Anthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloAnthony BarceloSanta Monica | $4.495 millionA midcentury modern house built in 1954, on 0.2 acresThis four-bedroom, four-bathroom house is in Santa Monica Canyon, within a quarter-mil...

After their daughters left for college, a couple looked to trade their suburban lifestyle for a new house near Helena’s central core. Here’s what they found.

The theater legend and ‘Familiar Touch’ star hosts friends and artists in her expansive Brooklyn brownstone.

After meeting in Phoenix and discovering they were both from Southern California, a couple plotted their return. Here’s what they found at the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.

Clear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsClear Shot CreationsMendocino | $875,000A 1969 cottage, on half an acreThis two-bedroom, one-bathroom house is a mile from the center...

Platinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesPlatinum PropertiesManhattan | 214 Riverside Drive, No. 508/509Upper West Side Co-op$1.585 millionA one-bedroom, two-bath, roughly 1,407-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, an en suite bedr...

Q: My friend lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. The building owner has built an “amenity space” that includes a gym and a lounge. Now all tenants are being billed $100 every month, which the owner claims is mandatory. Can the owner impose this fee on rent-stabilized tenants? What should she do?A: Rent-stabilized...

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What is removing a tree worth? Quotes vary widely, depending on size, risk and proximity to a home or vehicles. But tree care professionals say they’ve seen a sharp increase in operating costs since the pandemic.“There are guys who bid $15,000 for a tree, there are guys who bid $1,200,” said Brandon Dolan, a certified arborist and...

When Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a new state law in October mandatinglandlords supply tenants with a working stove and refrigerator starting on Jan. 1, 2026, it marked the end of a bizarre rite of passage for many moving to Los Angeles.Unlike most of the country, or even many other cities in California, Los Angeles rente...

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It’s a relationship, in my case a long-term one, that has weathered many actual storms. And yet the garden and I find ourselves lately at that stickiest of places that two partners can confront: the moment when one utters to the other, “I thought I knew you.”Taking stock of the fading year, that’s what’s in my head: I thought I kne...

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The quiet, laid-back atmosphere of Shelter Island, nestled between the North and South Forks of Long Island, has long made it a special place for John and Christine Gachot. “I basically grew up here,” said Mr. Gachot, 55. “My family came every summer.”When he married Ms. Gachot, 56, she became part of the tradition. And even after...

Plopping a new, modern building atop a cherished, historic one is not a novel concept. In New York, the Hearst Tower rises out of a six-story Art Deco building from 1928. The Antwerp Port House, designed by the architect Zaha Hadid, delicately balances a glass structure above a fire station.And using air rights to develop skyscrape...

Few home improvement projects inspire as much as excitement as a kitchen renovation. Once hidden away as a service space, the kitchen has come a long way over the past century to claim its place as the heart of most homes.Frequently larger, more open and more central than it was decades ago, the kitchen now has an outsize impact on...

The actress reflects on her “dream come true” house as she prepares to decamp for London.

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When Janet Feldman set out in 2014 to find a recliner for her father, she was dispirited by the available offerings. “The chairs were horrifying,” Ms. Feldman said. “They were large and corduroy and plaid, with side pockets all the way down. They looked ridiculous.”Ms. Feldman had identified a challenge in recliner design. To accom...

Q: I had rented a house that had an apartment built in its former garage in Darien, Conn. I later discovered that the apartment, an accessory dwelling unit that was included in our lease, was built without permits or inspections and never received a certificate of occupancy. I moved out before the lease was up for other reasons. I...

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Bold repeating lines in colors that could be pulled straight from a birthday hat are injecting a bit of happiness into households across the country.In the last year, optimistic-looking stripes have overrun an American home décor market that had, for decades, been focused on minimal fuss and solid shades of beige, white and gray. F...

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It’s no surprise that buildings these days are burdened by cardboard boxes. “In 2005, the average New York City household was putting out 35 pounds of cardboard a year,” said Joshua Goodman, spokesman for the Department of Sanitation. “In 2023, it was 97 pounds.”But a more notable factoid emerged from the department’s most recent w...

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It was decidedly not love at first sight. Yearning to escape the Midwest, Melissa Longstaff and her husband decided to move to Richmond, Va., after graduating from art school in Kansas City, Mo., 35 years ago. Back then, Virginia’s sleepy capital was still locked in an embrace of its past as the seat of the Confederacy.“What you sa...

“When we first stepped in, we were a little shocked,” Andrea Giovanni Rossi said of the apartment he had been hired to renovate.The flat, a 215-square-foot rental in Milan’s Porta Romana neighborhood, was “kind of a challenge to design,” he said, adding that “it was kind of a sign that the market is shifting and that these very tig...

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After living inSan Antonio for 15 years, Paula Cox began planning a move to Austin in 2018, to be closer to some of her grandchildren.“I wanted to have a strong connection with the grandkids as they grow up,” said Ms. Cox, 72, an artist.ImageMs. Cox at home with her pink fridge. Credit...Katherine Squier for The New York TimesThat...

Q: I rent an apartment in a 55+ “luxury” apartment complex in New Jersey. When we moved in back in May, we were told the intercom system to allow visitors into the building was out of order, but that it would be repaired within a month. The management company is still “working on it.” We’ve since learned that the issue predates our...

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There’s a bathroom in the exclusive beach enclave of Southampton, N.Y. with fluffy wall-to-wall carpeting that abuts every leak-prone fixture from the toilet to bathtub. Further increasing the danger quotient is the fact that this carpet is a snowy shade of white.The bathroom in question can be found in the primary summer home of t...

When Lee Mayer launched the interior design platform Havenly in 2014, she used technology to help make design more affordable to the masses.The site connects clients to professionals who manage most of the design process online, using Havenly’s site to host video consultations and chats, exchange measurements and mood boards, or sh...

Wondering if it’s worth it to downsize? New research from StorageCafe found that in some cities, it can save hundreds of thousands of dollars over time, while in others it can actually cost thousands.StorageCafe analyzed 90 of the country’s largest cities and estimated what a homeowner would gain (or lose) over the course of a deca...

Wondering if it’s worth it to downsize? New research from StorageCafe found that in some cities, it can save hundreds of thousands of dollars over time, while in others it can actually cost thousands.StorageCafe analyzed 90 of the country’s largest cities and estimated what a homeowner would gain (or lose) over the course of a deca...

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Long before Pantone announced Cloud Dancer as the Color of the Year, the interior designer Leanne Ford was making her mark on homes across the nation with a white-on-white palette. In addition to restoring residential properties to glory on HGTV, Ms. Ford became known for putting an edgy-yet-elevated spin on Buck Mason’s retail sto...

After a long stint in Europe, a Texas couple brought their two young daughters home and searched for a house in a good school district with room for grandparents and friends.

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Amy Lively loves to tell people just how much her European vacation cost her and her husband. That’s because they spent $1,460 on accommodations for the 31-day trip.ImageAmy Lively, a Kindred member, allows strangers she meets on the app to stay in her Nathrop, Colo., home while she’s away.Credit...Theo Stroomer for The New York Ti...

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, as some New Yorkers left the city while others hunkered down, Chris Cooper and Jennifer Hanlin saw a chance to finally buy the property they wanted: a townhouse in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.“Chris and I had tried to purchase a Brooklyn brownstone for years and had always been outbid by developer...

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The year Jaden Lander turned 16 he went to his first car race. It sparked something in him. When he came home all aglow, his mother suggested he enter an amateur race.Five months later, unfortunately, he failed his first driver’s license test.“I hit the curb,” he recalled. “And I almost failed the second one for going too slow.”But...

Q: I own an apartment in a 75-unit condominium building in Harlem, where the management company and the board have a serious problem with transparency. The building’s most pressing and costly financial issues are two lawsuits and rising property taxes. Some owners learned that the building had settled one of the lawsuits, but manag...

To Frances Merrill, there’s nothing quite as charming as a historic house in Los Angeles.When Ms. Merrill, the founder of the interiors firm Reath Design, was house hunting for her family of four in 2022, her only criteria were that the property had to have been lived in for at least 40 years and have nice windows. So when she foun...

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As part of a little-known Department of Sanitation program, New York City buildings with at least 10 units can request an indoor textile recycling bin. Since the program debuted in 2011, the number of buildings with bins has grown each year, reaching 2,460 in 2024.“Textiles are the next frontier for diversion and reuse,” said Joshu...

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Seeking a ‘self-contained, low-maintenance house,’ a couple headed west for a new chapter in the California sun. Here’s what they found.

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As partners in life and work, the architects Tom Morbitzer and Goil Amornvivat have faced many challenges together. But every December, the founders of the New York-based firm Ammor Architecture find themselves mulling over one question: How should they decorate for the holidays?ImageMr. Morbitzer, left, and Mr. Amornvivat at their...

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Evan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephManhattan | 125 Greenwich Street, No. 71AFinancial District Condo$1.94 millionThis one-bedroom, one-bath, 880-square-foot apartment has an entry foyer, marble countertops, a vented range, a large bedroom, radiant-heat bathroom floors, pocket doors, a washer/dryer, central heat...

For Fey Sandoval, the Covid-19 pandemic created a sense of restlessness. She was in her late 20s, still living in Dallas where she’d grown up, still in her parents’ house, working a corporate marketing job from the kitchen table.“I had this appetite to just leave all that behind and do something completely out of the ordinary,” she...

Q: My mother recently passed away. She lived in a condo in Salem, Mass., and faithfully paid her mortgage. But it turns out the condo has an outstanding “zombie mortgage” held by the previous owners, who didn’t disclose it during the sale. That mortgage owner tried to foreclose on the previous owners’ loan. Fortunately, my mother h...

Q: Almost daily we are inundated with phone calls and mail from companies wanting to buy my elderly father’s home. They claim they will buy the house in cash “as is,” with no closing costs and no listing. I’ve also seen television advertisements for these companies. At some point I will need to sell the house and I wonder if these...

Q. I am on the board of directors of an Upper West Side condominium. A member of the board is a residential real estate broker who leases and sells apartments in the building — including apartments he’s bought for himself that were substantially below market. As a board member, he has access to privileged resident information, incl...

Q: I live with my partner in a co-op apartment in New York City, which I bought outright three years ago. Since it was a sponsor apartment, I did not need board approval for the purchase. Now I’m writing my will and would like to leave the apartment to my partner, for him to live in or to sell. But in order for him to assume owners...

For dingy walls and rooms without a view, there’s a simple fix: wallpaper.Homeowners have long faked assets like marble and elaborate millwork in a technique known as trompe-l’oeil (French for “deceive the eye”). The French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly coined the phrase to describe a painting he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1800....

Q: I live in a co-op in Lower Manhattan. Recently, the board issued a letter requiring a shareholder to add the co-op as an “additional insured” to their homeowner’s insurance policy. The management company also sent an email saying that it needed to be added as an “additional insured.” The insurance company that I’ve had my policy...

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Sea Ranch, a planned community built on a sheep ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., in the late 1960s, has become known as a modernist utopia where cedar-clad homes with shed roofs tuck into the grassy bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It has been a beacon for Northern California creative types seeking the idealism of architecture...

I found the curiosity pictured above at my local Goodwill a few weeks ago. At first glance, I thought it was make-believe — someone’s fantasy of what Olde Tyme furniture should look like. But soon, three things became clear.One, it was expertly made with fine materials. Two, it was part of a tradition: As a bit of Googling revealed...

When he was working at Microsoft in the aughts, Dan Wheeler had a photo taped to the edge of his computer monitor: an image of a tiny modernist cabin in the woods, crafted from weathering steel.“It was the coolest,” said Mr. Wheeler, 47, who was as smitten with the idea of living in the wild landscape of rural Washington State as h...

From the soaring Norway spruce at New York City’s Rockefeller Center to the concolor fir displayed inside the White House, there is no single exemplary Christmas tree. Historically, the requirement has been a conifer that looks nice come winter.ImageThe advent of tree farming and shipping means shoppers can choose from a variety of...

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Frank Gehry is largely remembered as an architect of grand scale, known for his playful designs of some of the world’s most celebrated buildings: the Vitra Museum in Germany, the Guggenheim in Spain, the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Gehry, who died last week at age 96, pioneered a style of swooping forms collaged together in ways th...

Though we simply jot down “green beans” or “tomatoes” on our shopping list, the words only hint at what we’d really like. Italian-style Romano beans, with their big flattened pods, would be better suited than your average string bean to the ragù we might wish to simmer up slowly alongside some big, meaty Amish Paste tomatoes. If on...

Steel beams crisscross the gutted interior of the 1930s building in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood; they are there to temporarily brace the shell of the structure until new floors are poured inside.But not because the redbrick architecture is rarefied in the usual sense. On the contrary.This was until recently a no-nonsense...

Despite the proliferation of coffee shops, more Americans are buying coffee makers and brewing at home, according to a recent study by the National Coffee Association, an industry group. Nearly every style has become more popular since 2020, from simple drip machines to brewers that grind beans and brew to order. Ownership of count...

De MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterDe MeesterZuid | $1.5 million (1.32 million euros)A renovated three-bedroom townhouse with a gardenThis four-story, 19th-century townhouse is in Antwerp’s bustling Zuid neighborhood, close to the Royal M...

Fed up with rent increases, a former dancer wasn’t sure if he could afford a two-bedroom apartment. His partner and a dedicated broker helped him find the way.

When she set out to build a custom house on Bailey Island in Maine, Natasha Durham didn’t just want a home to live in. “I wanted to build a sculpture,” she said.Ms. Durham, 62, the founder of Rough & Tumble, a boutique handbag company, already owned other homes in Maine with her husband, Steve Durham, 76, a boat captain. Those prop...