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The JoAnn Ussery “plane home”

I can safely say that this “style” of home isn’t for everyone. Could you imagine living in JoAnn Ussery’s plane home? Her brother-in-law, an air-traffic controller at Memphis Airport, invited JoAnn to the plane moratorium the very next day where she fell in love with a 1968 Commercial Airlines Boeing 727. The plane didn’t look…

How to make a small home seem larger

California is home to some of the most expensive land prices in the country. In some densely populated California areas, small home footprints are the norm, in which case design and careful use of space can either make the space feel larger or outright claustrophobic. How you design or redesign your small space can help your…

The top floor

Typically the top floors of a residential building are the most expensive and most exclusive floors in the building. Known as the penthouse, it commands the most price per square foot compared to any other unit in the building. $9,700 PER SQUARE FOOT For example, a penthouse in the Hong Kong residential project called Cullinan…

The English Tudor

The English Tudor style home came into its popularity around the 1920s and 1930s in America. It’s easy to recognize a Tudor once you know what to look for. Classic features include stone work or brick work on the exterior walls with exposed beams on the exterior and the interior usually stained dark. Tudors have…

Ordering your next home from a catalog

Would you order your next home from a catalog? Many would. Tens-of-thousands of families have. HOMES BY CATALOG From 1908 to 1940, Sears an Robuck sold and delivered more than 75,000 homes to consumers across the country. Believe it. The homes were offered for sale in the Sears and Robuck general merchandise catalog and consumers…