Articles by Nora Burba Trulsson

After a few years of designing and building custom homes and handling high-end residential renovations in Houston, Stephen Heiman began rethinking the local housing market. Heiman, who dabbles in art and music in his spare time, wanted to create somet…

It’s no surprise that 2020 changed how many homeowners think about and use their homes. And product manufacturers took note, as evident in new features for kitchen and laundry appliances that debuted during the 2021 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show. A…

Patty and Chad Esslinger didn’t buy their suburban home because it was gorgeous. They felt the basic 1990s tract home offered little in the way of aesthetically pleasing features. But the two-level house had good bones, offered plenty of space for the…

Although geodesic domes might conjure up images of macrame, shag carpeting and eight-track tapes, a Boston couple saw potential, not vintage kitsch, when they purchased a three-level lakeside dome home as a vacation retreat in the Berkshires of wester…

After building and moving into their custom house in Shoreview, Minnesota, these homeowners realized they had made a few errors in the kitchen. For example, the fridge stood on the other side of the island from the range and sink, forcing the couple t…

When a young family wanted to build a summer house on Maine’s rugged and unspoiled coast, they found acreage near where the husband had spent many carefree vacations as a child. Wanting that same unfettered experience of playing in the woods and on th…

When a young family wanted to build a summer house on Maine’s rugged and unspoiled coast, they found acreage near where the husband had spent many carefree vacations as a child. Wanting that same unfettered experience of playing in the woods and on th…

After Susan Small and George Landis relocated from Vermont to a condo in Florida, they realized they also wanted to spend time visiting friends and family across the United States. Landis proposed buying an RV so they could spend half the year on the …

For many years, this Canadian couple spent winter vacations in the sunshine of southern Arizona, and even planned to build a desert house there, designed for them by Tucson architect Teresa Rosano and designer Luis Ibarra. They never built that house…

For many years, this Canadian couple spent winter vacations in the sunshine of southern Arizona, and even planned to build a desert house there, designed for them by Tucson architect Teresa Rosano and designer Luis Ibarra. They never built that house…