About two weeks after Marcell Leon Viragh moved into the Park Santa Monica, a Los Angeles building where residents can sweat in a Himalayan salt sauna or gaze at the Pacific Ocean from the expansive roof deck, he took the elevator down to the spa, where a registered nurse slid [...]
Molly Mungroo is not a homebody. “I’m not going to stay in this house and watch these four walls,” she said. “I’m not going to say, ‘I’m old, I don’t go anywhere.’ I don’t do that. I’m independent.” Between volunteering at a food pantry, going to church and regular walks [...]
Topanga | $2.2 Million A shingled split-level bungalow built in 1931, with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a guesthouse with a full bathroom and a geodesic dome, on a 0.4-acre lot This property, in the Fernwood neighborhood, includes three structures: a main house, a guesthouse and a geodesic dome. It is [...]
Furnishing your home with antiques doesn’t have to be expensive — not if you’re willing to do a little restoration work. Take it from Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon, better known as the Brownstone Boys. “If you get a piece someone has already spent a lot of time and effort [...]
Lee McColgan’s career in finance was probably doomed as soon as he started visiting historic house museums. The first one he toured was the Fairbanks House, in Dedham, Mass., the oldest surviving timber-frame home in America, built in 1637. It was 2014, and Mr. McColgan was living in Omaha, where [...]
The auctioneer David Redden remembers seeing the grand Joseph Pulitzer mansion on the Upper East Side from a client’s home in 2000 and thinking it was “the most beautiful house in New York City.” “It was a Venetian palace,” Mr. Redden, now retired as a vice chairman of Sotheby’s and [...]
Q: I am a senior citizen and I live in a modest Cape Cod-style home in northern New Jersey. The house could use some updating and repairs, but I expect to sell it in two to three years. Every house like mine that has sold in the neighborhood in the [...]
It’s as if you discovered that the living room in your new apartment had been painted by Michelangelo. Frank DiLella moved to New York City in 2002 to study journalism and theater at Fordham University. After he graduated, he rented apartments in Astoria, Queens, and in Hell’s Kitchen and on [...]
Bearsden | £625,000 ($785,000) A restored four-bedroom, two-bath semidetached house from the 1930s north of Glasgow. This capacious three story, four-bedroom house sits on a lushly landscaped corner lot in the quiet town of Bearsden, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow. The home has been expanded with renovations over [...]
Manhattan | 360 Riverside Drive, No. 7C Upper West Side Co-op $915,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 800-square-foot apartment with an entry foyer, a renovated eat-in kitchen, a living room, a large bedroom with two closets, a windowed marble bathroom, and window-unit air-conditioning, on the seventh floor of a 13-story prewar [...]