Building a thatched roof for my hut required more effort than anticipated, utilizing over 35 willow branches, about 200 fan ...

Q. I have an 11-year-old house in Tewksbury I built myself. It has a hand-split, rough-sawn, cedar-shingle roof. When it was first installed, and every two to three years since, I have had Penofin ...

GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

It’s hard to give up an idea that you had for so long even when you find out it’s false or exaggerated. For example, everyone seems to have this idea that a thatched roof is extremely inflammable and ...

Regarding the stone house with thatched roof in San Miguel de Allende [“A Labor of Luck,” Feb. 7]: How many hundreds of rats does Michele Connor or, better yet, her housekeeper estimate now are ...

William Cahill has thatched roofs all over the world, from his native Ireland to Africa and in this country from Boston to California. His first time in Pittsburgh, he put a roof over his head. "It's ...

THE MAIN TOURIST ATTRACTION HERE IN MANNING WAS IN NEED OF A HAIRCUT. BUT IT TURNS OUT THAT IS NO EASY TASK. WELCOME TO THE CENTURIES OLD HOUSE BARN, A RELIC BROUGHT FROM GERMANY TO MANNING BACK IN ...