Split-level homes are a suburban relic of post-WWII baby boom housing trends that began in the 1950s and were popular until the 1970s. Builders riffed on the traditional ranch house in order to ...
Living in a 1950s house can present numerous challenges. Living in a 1950s house that has been updated and expanded multiple times by those of varying skill levels and visions can present ...
With six kids, a housekeeper named Alice and Tiger the dog, the fictitious “Brady Bunch” of the 1970s sitcom filmed in a real-life mid-century California house, a perfectly groovy set for all the ...
Daniela Forte’s clients, a young couple with a gigantic dog and an orange cat, wanted a fresh, new look for their funky, split-level home in Marshfield. Tired of feeling trapped in the kitchen when ...
I don’t think we realized how much work we were stepping into,” says Nick Cope, thinking back at when he and his wife Rachel Cope fell for this 1968 split-level house in Hudson five years ago. The ...
Tastes can change; So, too, can an owner’s requirements of their home. In the early 1960s, for instance, no floor plan concept seemed better suited to the demands of modern life than the ...
Homes were selling so quickly it made it difficult to stay on top of the local market from Florida. “One night at 3 a.m. in Florida I discovered this split-level house on Zillow in Wildwood that — ...
The split-level house at 5110 Cathedral Ave. NW, in D.C.'s Kent neighborhood, was a battered relic from the 1970s in need of help. But for developer Ross Koenig, it was “love at first sight.” He ...