Thomas Kinkade’s village is its most recent, and most high-profile, addition. Its opening in September drew a crowd of more than 2,000. The village is, according to its marketing material, a ...

Jagdip Nirwan, a board member of the homeowners association for The Village at Hiddenbrooke, stands in the Thomas Kinkade housing development on Friday, April 13, 2012, in Vallejo, Calif.

With Kinkade’s paintings as a guide, Taylor Woodrow laid out a 101-house gated community called the Village. Streets, houses, fixtures and landscaping will epitomize Kinkade’s nostalgic style ...

Yesterday "The Village, a Thomas Kinkade Community" opened its models to the public -- with Kinkade himself on hand to cut the ribbon at what he says will be "an environment where families can ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Fans of Thomas Kinkade's sentimental paintings soon will be able to do more than hang them on the wall. They could hang them on the wall of a house designed to look like ...

Dark Times Befall 'Painter Of Light' Thomas Kinkade Kinkade's familiar, ... "I've been carrying Thomas Kinkade for over 22 years," says Marty Brown, co-owner of the Village Gallery in Irvine.