All Miniature Models

I’m grinning like an undead realtor. This little white farmhouse—yep, the Beetlejuice house—is one of those minis that makes you lean in until your nose almost boops the porch rail. It’s all there: the steep gables, the watchtower with its prim little balustrade, the metal roof flashing just so, the sliver of hillside and that perfectly mustard station wagon at the bottom of the drive. The mood is half pastoral New England, half “did something just move in the attic?” Which i

Welcome to Gilded Sips, established in 1928 by two unlikely co-conspirators: Aurelia Finch, a botanical illustrator with a weakness for espresso, and Otto Beaumont, a machinist who moonlighted as a stage-lighting tech. They met arguing over whether a café should be lit like a greenhouse or a theater. Compromise? Art Deco verdure.

Welcome to Casa Pequeña de los Vientos, founded (legend says) in 1919, when a retired tile-maker named Isidro Ventana followed a stray cat into a courtyard and decided the sunlight there was unusually well-behaved. He built the cottage in stages, bartering clay pots for cedar planks and trading stories for wrought iron...