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, ...

An airy extension gives the bijou proportions of this 17th-century Cotwolds cottage a bright, light-filled contemporary feel. What better way to mix old and new? Anthony and Karen Cull, owners of ...

They may be an old way of building, but huts have continued to fascinate people to the point that those in urban areas are modernising them while others still prefer them to modern houses. Travelling ...

It’s pretty easy for Valjawan (Val) Deer to remember his palmetto thatching licence number.It’s ‘one’.That is because he was the first palmetto thatchist to be licensed in the United States, by the ...

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Fingal County Council is looking for your assistance in capturing and preserving the story of thatch in Fingal for future generations, from the thatched dwellings past and present to those who lived ...