Mike Basich was once pulling $170,000 a year as a professional snowboarder, living in a 4,000-square-foot house in Utah and driving a luxury car. He walked away from all of it. Today, he lives in a hand-built, 228-square-foot stone cabin perched at 7,100 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains — with no indoor plumbing, no … Read more
When Chip and Joanna Gaines decided to mark the 10th anniversary of Fixer Upper by taking on a cliffside lake house in Waco, Texas, they set themselves a specific challenge — restore a forgotten 1960s home without erasing its history. What they produced was one of the most layered, carefully considered renovations in the show’s … Read more
The Thomas Tull House is a 33.34-acre ultra-luxury estate in Westlake Village, California, originally listed at $85 million in 2018 and sold for $35 million in October 2020. Designed as a French chateau with over 50,000 sq ft across seven structures, it features a Dolby-certified private cinema, a 5-acre organic farm, a quarter-acre millpond, and … Read more
Shannon Elizabeth’s House is a 4,689 sq ft, 5-bedroom Mediterranean estate in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. Purchased in August 2001 for $1.425 million, she listed it in 2012 and finalized the sale in June 2014 for $2.8 million. The property was later resold for ~$6M in 2023. Rather than maximizing profit, Elizabeth channeled the proceeds … Read more
Meghan Trainor currently lives in a $17.1 million mansion in Encino, California — a property she bought from DJ Zedd in May 2024. The home sits on nearly an acre in the San Fernando Valley, spans roughly 15,000 square feet, and comes with a celebrity ownership history that reads like a guest list: Joe Jonas … Read more
A neighbor once asked why my backyard felt so different from the houses on either side of mine. Same size lot. Same soil. Same climate. The difference wasn’t money or land — it was a set of deliberate decisions made before a single plant went in the ground. That’s exactly what the garden guide homenumental … Read more
You’ve got empty bottles, old fabric scraps, and a stack of cardboard boxes collecting dust. You know you could do something with them — you just don’t know where to start. That’s exactly the gap Inventive LWMFCrafts is designed to fill. This guide covers what the concept actually means, what “LWMF” refers to, and five … Read more
It is a Saturday morning. You sit down with your coffee. Then you notice a brown stain spreading across the ceiling. You have no idea when it started. A contractor visit alone could cost $400 just to take a look. This happens every day in homes across the country. Not because the damage was unavoidable … Read more
You wake up in a cold sweat. Your heart pounds. The image burns in your mind—your house engulfed in flames. The dream of house burning left you shaken, but you’re not sure why. These vivid nightmares feel so real that you can almost smell the smoke when you open your eyes. Dreams about burning houses … Read more
Have you ever fantasized about leaving cramped city life behind for a beautiful country home? You’re not alone. This timeless story follows Jim Blandings, a successful advertising executive living in a cramped New York apartment with his wife Muriel and two daughters, who buys an old Connecticut house only to discover he purchased a money … Read more