Question: I am getting ready to buy my first home. I keep hearing the term “ranch style.” What is that? A: Ranch-style is an architectural style that started in California. Settlers built houses for ...

A ranch is a single-story house distinguished by a low-profile design, wide-open layout, and an asymmetrical facade while accenting the relationship between indoor and outdoor living. Ranches, also ...

The ranch house emerged from postwar necessity and quickly became the dominant home style in America, with single-story designs accounting for more than half of all new homes built by 1950. The 1970s ...

There’s a lot to love about the common ranch-style house. Most of the horizontal, ground-hugging ramblers built for middle-class families in the 1950s and 1960s boom years had hardwood floors, brick ...

With a booming population and economy in the U.S. after World War II, hordes of GIs and others wanted their own homes, and builders found an answer that was both easy and appealing: the ranch house.

Carolina Loaiza and Steve Ramirez weren”t looking for a one-story place when they went house-hunting. But when they walked into a Montvale, N.J., ranch, they knew they were home. “It was beautiful; it ...

When P.J. Pereira and Lo Braz left their native Brazil and moved to the Bay Area a few years ago, they first settled in San Francisco, then Sausalito. But when their son was born in 2007, they knew ...

Not everyone who moves into a midcentury ranch-style house is returning to his or her roots, or yearning to roll back time. People appreciate the ubiquitous dwellings for a whole host of reasons. The ...

The ranch style, wildly popular between the mid-1930s and 1970s, was adapted, styled and tinkered with in a variety of ways across the United States. Raised ranches and split levels were variations ...