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Down By Law
by Nalina February 24, 2011
February 24, 2011
Any home remodel in New York City that involves adjusting partitions or plumbing requires a work permit from the Department of Buildings…
“Brownstone Diary”
by Nalina February 23, 2011
February 23, 2011
Among all the home remodeling blogs I visit there is one guilty pleasure: “Brownstone Diary,” Julia Angwin’s column in the Wall Street…
“The Fountainhead”
by Nalina January 18, 2011
January 18, 2011
In the 1943 movie “The Fountainhead” Gary Cooper plays a talented modern architect, Howard Roark, who’s loosely modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright. …
“Jungle Fever”
by Nalina November 8, 2010
November 8, 2010
In Spike Lee’s 1991 movie “Jungle Fever” Wesley Snipes plays Flipper Purify, a married architect who has an affair with his single…
“Counter Space”
by Nalina November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
MoMA‘s new kitchen design exhibit “Counter Space” puts dozens of everyday kitchen accessories and furnishings on display. Some are entirely familiar (a…
“Hue”
by Nalina October 20, 2010
October 20, 2010
There are moments of impossible glamor in every girl’s life when it feel as if her life has been turned into a…
Waste Not
by Nalina October 13, 2010
October 13, 2010
Another sterile white-walled gallery filled with sterile contemporary art, right? These paintings and sculptures are actually construction debris, pieces of furniture, carpet,…
“Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House”
by Nalina October 4, 2010
October 4, 2010
I just watched the slight, charming 1948 Hollywood comedy “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” and was impressed by the way it…
“House About It”
by Nalina September 22, 2010
September 22, 2010
There are those things that they don’t teach you in school, and there are those things that they don’t teach you in…
Great White
by Nalina September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
After my remodel was complete my mother gave me a set of white dishes as a kitchen-warming gift. It’s a simple style…

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