Certain architectural styles can be hard to name at first sight. Perhaps you can recall a craftsman in the established neighborhoods of your hometown, and maybe you can pinpoint a Victorian given its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Fashion fads come and go, as do popular home design trends.

For many in the design world, the chickens have come home to roost for the typical modern farmhouse. Shiplap walls, black windows…. It’s all about as expected as clerestory windows on a stuck-in-time ...