Exterior shutters can induce shudders when they are installed incorrectly or neglected near the windows on a home. Historically, examples of early exterior shutters were pairs of hinged wood pieces, ...

Dear Jerry: I never paid much attention to the shutters on our 1928 stucco home until the recent windstorm ripped five of them off! When we retrieved the shutters, I realized they were a thin plastic ...

Deciding on windows can be doubly fraught. Not only do they impact a home’s beauty and personality from the outside, but, as architect Kevin Clark points out, “Nothing has as much effect on an ...

The mass production of housing that began in post-WWII American suburbs dramatically changed the architecture of residential housing from both a design and manufacturing perspective. Enabled by a ...