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  • Site Visit with Bear Mountain Woodworking

    by Shera Nuss June 13, 2013
    June 13, 2013

    Our 6th Home School series giveaway with Brooklyn Based is up and running (yay!), which makes now the perfect time to introduce…

  • Scope of Work Case Study

    by Shera Nuss March 21, 2013
    March 21, 2013

    How much work goes into a renovation? Renovation projects always involve a lot more work than meets the eye — and this…

  • Measurement Room

    by Jean March 10, 2011
    March 10, 2011

    Another simple clear way to understand scale and proportion. Mel Bochner, Measurement Room 1969, installed at the Museum of Modern Art, 2009…

  • Floorplan Color Studies

    by Jean March 7, 2011
    March 7, 2011

    Inspired by the Dulux Color project, I remembered a post I’d seen on Little Green Notebook. It looks like Jenny got the original…

  • Let’s Color Project by Dulux

    by Jean March 3, 2011
    March 3, 2011

    The Let’s Colour Project is a worldwide initiative from Dulux, Dulux Valentine, Coral, Flexa and Marshall to transform grey spaces with colorful paint.…

  • 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…

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