Home & Real Estate

In the Doghouse

Where to Live Now (Canine Edition)

Houston architects ask: why must dog houses literally look like houses?

08/01/2013 By Kerry H.

Space City

Sustain Agility: the Oldest Home in River Oaks

A River Oaks redo, loyal to the original Jazz Age design right down to the sound of footsteps on gravel

07/01/2013 Photography by Paul Hester By James Glassman

Swamplot

Swamp Person

Who is Gus Allen?

07/01/2013 By Jenny Staff Johnson Illustrations by Brian Taylor

Real Estate 2013

Neighborhoods by the Numbers

From price growth and school rankings to crime stats and bikeability—how does your neighborhood stack up?

06/01/2013

Real Estate

25 Hottest Neighborhoods

The best places to live right now.

06/01/2013 By Peter Holley and John Lomax Photography by Todd Spoth

A Fable

The Prince and the Bakery

The story behind the medieval castle—moat, dungeon and all—in Bellville, TX.

06/01/2013 By John Lomax

Gardening

Cactomania

Everything’s coming up prickly.

04/25/2013 By Vernon Caldera

Trends

Cloud Covers

Desperate for an on-trend cutting board? May showers us with with-it housewares galore

04/25/2013 By Kerry H.

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 19-21

Where to go, who to see, and what to do

04/17/2013 By Eric Harrison

Space City

Lords of the Splash

Meet Houston’s high-end pool boys, who never met a Gunite grotto they didn’t like.

03/15/2013 By Peter Holley Photography by Jill Hunter