Earlier this year, architecture studio Snøhetta revealed images of a dramatic spiral staircase roof taking shape over the Shanghai Grand Opera House, as it neared completion. Set to open to the public ...

After decades of covering renovations, a Country Living editor restores her great-grandparents’ 1908 farmhouse, filling it ...

After decades of writing about other people’s renovations, I bought back my great-grandparents’ nearly 120-year-old farmhouse ...

Learn how to crochet a braided cord with this easy, beginner-friendly tutorial. This technique is perfect for making handles, straps, drawstrings, jewelry, and decorative edges for crochet projects.

Braids have a long, rich, storied history that intertwines both practicality and cultural status. The French braid, in particular, dates back thousands of years to North Africa and ancient Greece, but ...

You may be like most folks. I’m guessing you give very little thought to the stairs you go up and down on a regular basis.

Researchers investigating the well-known House of Thiasus in Pompeii became fascinated with an unconnected stone staircase. A digital architectural reconstruction (based on features still present at ...

Missing towers would have been home to lavish dinners hosted by the rich and wealthy ARCHAEOLOGISTS have revealed lost parts of Pompeii that were once a symbol of mega wealth among the doomed city’s ...