Historic renovations demand time, patience, organization and a keen eye for detail, even for the smallest projects. Moving a ramshackle historic house to a different location and then renovating it, ...

When chef Nina Compton was growing up in St. Lucia, she lived for leisurely beach days with her family. “We lived close to the beach, and we could see Pigeon Island from our house,” she says.

When Walter “Chip” Flower passed away last September, one of his last wishes was that he and his wife Ella’s Barrelli-Chapman, 1855 Louisiana Creole plantation style home, nestled on five acres in Old ...

The Edmundsons live on St. Philip Street in a quiet section of the French Quarter. Their home is an 1830s Creole cottage with a two-story accessory building in the rear, separated from the main house ...

Many of the city’s first freestanding wooden homes perished in the fires of 1788 and 1794. The Creole and American influenced townhouses that were built in their place remain the dominant building ...

Other than charming, of course. Cottages are small, charming homes, often ranging from 1,000 to 1,200 square feet. Cottage styles can vary widely, including English thatched-roof cottages, Cape Cods, ...