Ng, who teaches architecture and design at the University of Houston, has built what he calls a "Shotgun Chameleon ... to test out all my ideas," he says, laughing. The house is energy-efficient ...

She doubted her furniture collection would even fit in the confines of what she thought a shotgun house would be like. "I'd been looking for two years and was on the way home from a showing when I ...

Take the space-saving ideas she incorporated into her shotgun house on Annunciation Street ... To get a sense of her design ingenuity, visit her double shotgun — converted to a single ...