Consider the following a sort of follow-up to your recent missive about weather and seasons. Which is the more hipster destination, the desert or the beach? Hmmm, both certainly have their hipster ...

Not so long ago, a swimming pool was not much more than a cement swimmin’ hole. It used to be that you’d make a rectangular- or kidney-shaped concrete hole in the ground, fill it with water and dump ...

Let’s head to the Far Northeast for a moment to check in on a house that has pretty much everything you might need in your life. Here’s the checklist: Yard? Check. Living room with a skylight? Check.

For more than 25 years, a kidney-shaped pool sparkled behind Paul Chen’s Cerritos home. But last month, Chen joined a growing group of Southern Californians who have paid thousands of dollars to swap ...

This Jan. 24, 2023 photo shows the gun shaped pool in the backyard of Louis and Raye Ellen Minardi in Odessa, Fla., The swimming pool in the backyard of Louis Minardi’s home may be distinctive to ...

ODESSA — The swimming pool in the backyard of Louis Minardi’s home may be distinctive to Florida: The custom-built pool is shaped like a six-shooter revolver, in a state made famous – sometimes ...