I grew up in the middle of a woods surrounded by summer cottages. My year-round house wasn't much bigger than the cottages, so I felt I lived in one, too. To this day, some of my dearest friends are ...

Mark Johnson has no problem finding people who want him to build them a barn house, restore old log cabins, fix up big stone fireplaces or do pretty much any restoration work on old buildings. "I'm ...

In spite of their apparent simplicity, small cabins have always been a welcome design challenge in which scale, materiality and habitability must be resolved in order to take maximum advantage of ...