It is said that the tiny house movement has its roots in the 19th century and that naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden first highlighted the greatness of living a simple life in ...

In the hills of Elverson, Pennsylvania, a fantastical dwelling that looks straight out of “The Hobbit” has just been listed for $425,000 — and it’s capturing the attention of house hunters and fantasy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hobbit House in Culver City. In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of ...

This story originally ran in the January/February 2022 issue of Central New York Magazine. The magazine is available by delivery to subscribers of syracuse.com or The Post-Standard for $25 a year. To ...

The creations of natural-materials builder Brett LeCompte of Dolores are featured in the 2017 architecture book, Small Homes: The Right Size by Lloyd Kahn. Several pages display LeCompte’s straw-bale ...

Whether Gollum haunts the premises remains to be seen, but Gandalf greets visitors at the Ohiopyle Hobbit House. The “Lord of the Rings”-themed vacation rental property is newly open amidst 60 wooded ...

With Texas being as huge as it is, it’s no surprise that the state is home to a mix of geographical regions, from the mountains in El Paso and beaches along the Gulf Coast to the gorgeous Hill Country ...

In 1970 the typical new home was 1,500 sq. ft. Today the McMansion has pushed the figure to 2,300. A small but growing group of architects and homeowners, however, is rejecting the notion that bigger ...

They call Rogojeni the "hobbit village", and its little half-buried houses, built to resist Moldova's cold winters and hot summers, do look like something from "The Lord of the Rings". The traditional ...