“I bought the house in five minutes,” says Bette Midler, who was filming Beaches nearby when she saw the romantic half-timbered cottage perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

This three-level oceanfront retreat is perched on a cliff overlooking a pink-sand beach in Rancho Santana, a 2,700-acre residential resort community on the southern Pacific Ocean coast of Nicaragua, ...

A historic Laguna Beach estate previously home to actress Bette Davis has traded hands for nearly $15.3 million. The French Normandy-style home spans nearly 5,500 square feet along an oceanfront cliff ...

The story behind this story starts with the painting. Last fall, the superlative and vibe-capturing painter Patricia Chidlaw had her summertime exhibition at Sullivan Goss Gallery, bearing the ...

Welcome to Archive Dive—my new excuse to obsess over the absolute treasures hiding in House Beautiful’s 129-year-old archives. Every month, we’ll dig up a favorite story from the past (epic room ...