The 'courtyard effect' is a great way of visually opening up a small space and to make room for what's really important.

A wall-to-wall “carpet” of Buckingham slate chips runs the length of a narrow alleyway that serves two Fan row houses. The ...

If you are on the hunt for courtyard garden ideas, then this year’s WOW!house at Chelsea Harbour offers fodder for the imagination in bucket loads. The award-winning, interior design studio ...

From the outside, one cannot tell that this whole Palo Alto house is lifted 3 feet off the ground. Photo by Mariko Reed, courtesy Klopf Architecture. Creating a new 2,928-square-foot home to fit ...

With a courtyard design and 9,500 square feet of living space, inside and out, the property has been listed, furnished, at $39.995 million by True, a longtime agent with the Corcoran Group.