Home buyers say they want more garage, but bigger doesn't mesh with some municipalities' mandate to reduce garages' street presence.

Front Street has traditional single-family housing, with no resemblance to live/work urban lofts that put the business below and living quarters above. Ralph Spargo says Standard Pacific and Bassenian/Lagoni Architects aimed for house plus office, not ..

With architectural and planning solutions promoting a residential character, an exacting code process challenged the Front Street team.

Ladera celebrates the golden age of neighborhood against a backdrop of historic Rancho Mission Viejo

Live/work design comes to suburbia.

The Easy-Arch is a preformed, 25-gauge galvanized steel framing arch that nails in place in a fraction of the time it takes to build an arch the traditional way.

The porch reclaims its position as the elevation's main attraction.

Increasingly, buyers and builders seek out reclaimed wood; used lumber “harvested” from old homes, factories, warehouses, barns, wineries, breweries, and even bridges and railroads

In a few months, the Color Marketing Group, an international, not-for-profit association, will predict the color directions for the next few years and identify some of the strongest continuing trends.