1 RM, MTN VU Jan Cox has an expansive view of the sky and the snow-covered hills from her Idaho desert home.

Much has been made of the growing importance of the home office, which very often is nothing more than a desk, or a desk-substitute.

WINTER BUDS Honeycup at the United States Botanic Garden.

BED HEAD Julian Tomchin peruses West Elm with help from Shanika Chabel, a manager.

The architectural historian Kenneth Frampton has updated his 1995 book with 11 additional houses.

A selection of Pylones’s playful household objects will go on sale starting Jan. 10.

PLYprints are 14-by-14-inch plywood panels decorated with designs by Alexander Girard, a ’60s-era designer.

Trend USA’s new mosaic tile offers an eco-friendly way to retile a floor or wall, indoors or out.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani's two stucco houses are painted a gray-green shade designed to blend in with the foliage, which includes banana trees, cactus plants, herbs and vegetables, apple and peach trees and some dusty-looking palms.

Three of the structures in this home on the eastern coast of Hawaii’s Big Island were built as sleeping quarters.