This Storybook cottage’s native plant wonderland shows how gorgeous no grass can be Khoi Pham, left, and Michael Solberg in the front yard of their Storybook cottage in Studio City.

A “Storybook house” on South Yale Street in Spring Garden Township, once a Hollywood dream, devolved into a nightmare as its whimsical wood shingle roof that had endured for almost a century ...

Storybook style was born from the imaginations of Hollywood designers seeking to re-create medieval Europe for movie sets.

This dining room in Los Angeles is a cohesive blending of modernism and the circa-1930s house’s original ’Storybook’ design—a whimsical mash-up of styles—courtesy of Los Angeles-based ...

Ernest Guerrero is the only student to design a structure for the "Storybook Houses" exhibit. "I thought the bed would be a nice draw for kids," Guerrero said, flanked by his teacher Angelica Flores.

He also sold house plans of his own design and by architects whose work appeared in the magazine, including Henry Gutterson, Walter Ratcliff, Harold Stoner and H.C. Baumann.

A storybook cottage wants a palette of earthen tones — creams, browns, rusts and other colors that tie the house to the ground. But that doesn’t mean a storybook cottage shouldn’t have pinks ...

San Antonio Public Library children’s librarian selected more than 20 children’s books for designers to choose from for “Storybook Houses.” Here are 10 of them.

Whimsical storybook homes have roots in Hollywood The Hlaffer-Courcier house built, in 1923 Los Angeles, probably was inspired by Harry Oliver's Tam O'Shanter restaurant design.

Storybook style was born from the imaginations of Hollywood designers seeking to re-create medieval Europe for movie sets. As with most things from Hollywood, fans took notice and so did architects… ...