Jun 11th 2010 @ 3:30PM
Imagine you find a house for sale with a master-bedroom view of the surrounding garden. But what you really wanted was a view of the pond on the other side of the property where the birds and other wildlife flock. If you own the Rotating House in Wilton, Conn., that can be changed in about 50 minutes. This entire house, ... Continue Reading »
Jun 3rd 2010 @ 9:15AM
Forget the room with a view -- in fact, you can forget the room with a window. Don't be surprised to discover during your next apartment hunt a strange phenomenon -- a windowless bedroom. But is it really OK to live in a windowless bedroom or, more specifically, to allow windowless rooms to be called bedrooms? This ... Continue Reading »
Jun 1st 2010 @ 4:15PM
It's a story that touches upon the nation's economic woes, the challenge of preventing sprawl, and the quirky ingenuity of the Pacific Northwest. But is the trend of renting one's backyard cottage really big enough to have any effect beyond the symbolic? Well, yes and no. The focus of a recent USA Today article is ... Continue Reading »
Apr 16th 2010 @ 9:45AM
Last month the San Francisco Chronicle's Ann-Minh Le interviewed interior designer Angela Free, who left her career as an executive with Levi Strauss & Co. to work with individual clients on their homes. In the story, Free offered a "cheat sheet" of short tips on how to get the most out of an interior design project. ... Continue Reading »
Mar 30th 2010 @ 5:29PM
The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), a nonprofit organization promoting more livable and sustainable urban communities, announced this week the results of its expanded Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, which looks at the cost of living in different metropolitan area neighborhoods based on combined ... Continue Reading »
