Paul Warren is relaxing in the family room of his circa 1890 Park Avenue townhouse in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood. Far from a typical family room, the 40-by-35-foot space is reminiscent of a ...

Ken Wildes crouches next to a cardboard box and plucks out a rose hand-formed from clay. He holds the rose in his fingertips and points out the flaws. See how the petals are pressed together? A ...

When you run into a skilled artisan — a mural painter, a fine carpenter, a tile artist — don’t you wish you could see the inside of their own house? Here is one chance. It’s the home of the couple who ...

Embossed tin ceilings, created to mimic the grand plaster ceilings of Europe, offer an ever-changing play of light and shadow not possible with a flat painted ceiling. They originated in the mid-19th ...

Decorators Supply Corp., 3610-12 S. Morgan St., has propped the city on Corinthian columns, coffered its ceilings with rosettes and covered its walls in lacy plaster festoons for nearly a century. The ...

A unit in a stately Jamaica Plain mansion that was once home to the Children’s Museum offers a unique living experience with views of Jamaica Pond. Carved out of the library and dining room of the ...

The Frank R. McGinnis House was constructed in 1930 for an estimated $40,000. Photos by Ambient Light Studios, courtesy of Peter KInnaird and Sarah Pearson/Compass Completed for an estimated cost of ...

The rent is not exactly low, but this one-bedroom in the Clinton Hill Historic District does have some attractive features, including spacious rooms, a carved wood mantel and a well-equipped kitchen.