The cookie-cutter neighborhood is an iconic American symbol of suburbia — the architecture is uniform, the lawns manicured, the colors drawn from the same palate. Facades of the houses may vary, but ...

Tract, or cookie-cutter, housing used to be the name of the game. After World War II, developments featuring identical homes arose. Levittown, arguably the most well-known community among them, was ...

An anti-monotony ordinance that sets standards for new single-family detached homes in Lake Zurich has been updated to eliminate cookie-cutter houses built too closely together. The ordinance, which ...

When it comes to designing a home interior that reflects you and your lifestyle, nothing beats customizing everything from the bathroom tile to the drawer pulls. But when so much of the housing built ...

Homes in coastal towns like Newbury are often covered in clapboard, but this house on Scotland Road swaps wood for stonework. Called “the antithesis of cookie cutter” by its listing agent, Melissa ...

Dorlisa Flur was living in a cookie-cutter house in a suburban subdivision when, as a member of a cultural facilities board, she helped oversee the creation of Charlotte, N.C.’s, Bechtler Museum of ...