New orleans homes

Mitch and I absolutely love driving around neighborhoods to check out the local homes when we travel. So here's a New Orleans House Tour.

1312 First Street, New Orleans Garden District.

The Costello family abandoned the frenzy of New York City for a slower pace. But life in a storied pink house in the Garden District of New Orleans is its own kind of crazy.

Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as…

The asymmetrical facade, multiple gables, bay window, and wrap-around porches are all characteristics of the Queen Anne style of architecture

see beautiful photos of New Orleans architecture from St. Charles Street to the heart of the French Quarter

The French Quarter in New Orleans is the city's oldest neighborhood and a place completely unique to itself. Here are our top picks of where to visit.

Well this is a strange situation! After over a year of planning to plunge into homeownership in Spring 2020, I really thought we’d considered everything: the pre-approval, the location, the budget, the savings, the credit scores, the accurate reporting our self-employed income, and—of course—the pact with Fox that we’d only buy a house he approved of. Because if you’re not basing massive life decisions on the gut feeling of your seven pound lap dog, well, we’re just not the same.What we…