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Text description provided by the architects. The long cherished wish of a private painting studio became reality in the backyard. An unsightly shed grew to a light studio with attic. The side walls of ...

This modern garden studio outside London looks totally custom, but it’s not. The cedar-clad structure, which does double-duty as a home office and guest house, is one of the prefabricated designs from ...

Whether you call them granny units, in-laws or backyard studios, accessory dwelling units are rising in popularity in the U.S., in part due to new regulations that make it easier to obtain permits to ...

RUSH-HOUR BE DARNED: When Uptown jewelry artist Margo Manning goes to work, it's more a change of attitude than locale. View full sizePhotos by Susan Poag / The Times-PicayuneJewelry artist Margo ...

After a tree fell, the backyard studio where artist Lou Stovall screen printed his own and others’ artwork for nearly 50 years had to be razed—but his legacy persists. During a rainstorm on the ...

When filmmaker and poet Jane Stephens Rosenthal purchased her 1905 Craftsman-inspired house in Elysian Heights in 2013, she was particularly charmed by the backyard’s idiosyncratic hand-built ...