Home & Garden
Dome home in northern Minnesota is energy-efficient, weather-resistant — and listed at $449,000
Family members built the home themselves and have enjoyed the free-flowing open spaces.
January 18, 2025
Home & Garden
From grandmacore to maximalism, 2025 home decor trends to unite your styles
This year’s trends encourage creativity and compromise.
January 16, 2025
Home & Garden
1936 Crocus Hill ‘limo house’ designed by famed St. Paul architect lists for $2 million
The 1936 Crocus Hill mansion, the site of many fancy parties, was built by an heir to the Theodore Hamm Brewing Co. family and designed by Clarence Johnston.
January 14, 2025
Home & Garden
Avoid birdcicles: Heated birdbaths may tempt birds to bathe when it’s too cold.
Plus: What kind of nests do great horned owls build? What’s a good recipe for suet?
January 9, 2025
Culture
Art Deco style is popular again, a century after its heyday
A century after it was formally introduced at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, in Paris, Art Deco is enjoying a resurgence in decor, fashion and more.
January 8, 2025
Home & Garden
Waconia dream house with fish pond, car showroom and vineyard lists for $3.445 million
The owner, who had admired the bucolic Big Woods location since his childhood, built a luxurious 5,896-square-foot “modern farmhouse” overlooking a 4-acre pond.
January 7, 2025
Home & Garden
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s New York penthouse is listed for $9.95 million
The celebrated couple bought the co-op overlooking Central Park in the early 1980s and used it for big, splashy parties.
January 2, 2025
Home & Garden
Robins are doing just fine in our winters
Often associated with spring, these migratory birds are a not uncommon sight year-round.
January 2, 2025
Home & Garden
Updated 1873 farmhouse with ‘oldest standing barn in Anoka County’ lists for $975,000
Vintage features mingle with modern amenities in the home that’s “right in the heart of Coon Rapids.”
December 31, 2024
Real Estate
A new Home of the Month near family in south Minneapolis honors owner’s Swedish heritage
Nancy Nelson built the “red Swedish cottage” she’d always wanted across the street from her son’s family after her husband’s death prompted a move to south Minneapolis from Roseville.
December 27, 2024
Home & Garden
How DNA could help save California’s pheasants
Research may inform future survival strategies, such as moving pheasants to promote genetic mixing.
December 26, 2024
Home & Garden
Couple bring Nordic dream to life with architect-designed ‘holiday house’
25 Columns in central Sweden is a kind of ultracontemporary treehouse.
December 24, 2024