Puzzle boxes, not pastry, fill the antique pie safe in the corner. Pieces of the next-up puzzle cover the surface of a vintage farmhouse table. An even bigger puzzle surrounds all of this: an 1800s ...

PITTSBURGH – Hard by a 230-year-old log house, seven barred rock hens nibble on leaves that Keith Kaiser pokes through a fence. Ox eye sunflower is not their normal feed, but they don’t seem to mind.

Planning rules on cabins and modular homes in back gardens could be relaxed as part of Government efforts to tackle housing supply issues. Under current regulations, extensions of up to 40sq m to a ...