Michael Seitz spent three years renovating a 1918 "mushroom house" in Michigan. He wanted to create a fairytale-like roof and sketched out the design on a paper napkin. Seitz says he's not in a rush ...

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, ...

Courtesy A portion of a mural on display at the Caddo Mounds State Historic Site in Alto shows Caddo Indians migrating from the upper Red River area to the Neches River valley, and building a Caddo ...

The Thatch House in Charlevoix, Mich. will make all your storybook dreams come true. The vacation house looks like a giant mushroom from the outside, while its interior feels like its own cozy, shabby ...

A thatched cottage with six bedrooms in the centre of a Suffolk village is on the market for £1.1 million. The Grade II ...

A real fun guy is behind this blooming beauty. Homes like the Charlevoix Mushroom House only sprout up once in a blue moon, but the property is currently listed for $4.5 million. Built in 1920, the ...

This week’s Amazing Northern Michigan Homes is one with a unique opportunity. A sneak peek inside one of the famous Mushroom Houses of Charlevoix. “So you have the castle feel then you have the ...

The fire took hold in the roof of a two-storey, semi-detached thatched house A blaze in a thatched house spread to four properties, the fire service said. Firefighters were called to Cranford Road, ...

Thatched houses are disappearing across the island of Ireland with homeowners finding it almost impossible to secure insurance for the historic dwellings. It is estimated that there are just over ...

The race is on to save the remaining thatched cottages in Ireland and train the next generation to restore them to their former glory. Donegal County Council has said there are more than 300 known ...