"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you’re lucky enough to own a lake house, first take a moment to count your blessings. (We’ll wait.) ...

There’s an old Chinese proverb— Where the water is too clear, there are no fish —that suggests that sometimes it pays to look ...

If you have a house on Smith Mountain Lake, you may be literally living in a backwater. But the lake area -- figuratively speaking, anyway -- is anything but that when it comes to decorating. "People ...

This hillside lake house may be small, but it lives large with breezy indoor-outdoor flow, layered textures, and water views from every room.

An inlet off of West Lake Okoboji provides a serene setting where quiet waters lap at the docks, reminiscent of the canals in Europe. When you have a wonderful house on the water, walls are the things ...

Leave it to an architect to create a weekend retreat that rivals most people’s primary residences. In his vacation home on Alabama’s pristine Lake Martin, AD100 designer and architect Bobby McAlpine ...

Dozens of families recently gathered at the Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest to put their creative touches on pre-baked, pre-built and unadorned gingerbread houses. The decorating party Dec. 15 ...

This four-bedroom, three bathroom lakeside home is on the 153-acre Diamond Lake and comes with a private dock and boat slip. The main level has an open floor plan with beamed cathedral ceilings. It ...