How do you bend glass, anyway? A. “Everyone does it the same way—with heat,” says John Curran, owner of Curran Glass Studio (6507 Ogden Ave., Berwyn, 708-795-8620; www.curranglass.com). Heat softens ...

Some people have bars, or a window grill, on the outside of windows in their homes. They come in various styles but serve an ...

At 5,000-plus square feet and chock full of intact detail, the circa-1910 Neo-Federal brick row house was grand to begin with. Its main drawback? The kitchen’s placement in a rear extension, closed ...

Are those window bars purposeful or just pretty? We asked a metalworking expert to solve this mystery.

We admit we have a thing for arched windows. Palladian, Gothic, radius — we are into them. Maybe that's why the house at 176 Yerba Buena Avenue jumped out. From the exterior of the Mediterranean-style ...