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I am a casual collector of vintage paper goods and assorted ephemera. My stash includes vintage dictionaries and encyclopedias, postcards, baby scrapbooks, and handwritten recipe files. R...
DIYDiva Kit Stansley They are the heroes of their own dramatic real-life home makeovers. They save buildings from demise, rescue materials from the trash, increase the value of their hom...
She had a load of lumber to get home from the Home Depot. He had a car big enough to take it. Emily Winters and Pete Fazio, both of Rochester, NY, were weekday work colleagues who shared ...
At 25, John Clarke Mills, a software entrepreneur with a background in engineering and woodworking, bought his first house. John’s “starter house,” an 1890 three-story, 8-room Victorian i...
Kit Stansley has a zest for building and a talent for blogging about it. The 5’3,” 115 lb. powertool addict, tackles projects armed with fierce ambition and sharp wit, and then chronicles...
Bobbye Tigerman, assistant Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is on a post-installation high. The last five years of her career, ...
The construction of 2020 Alton Road, a 3,200 square foot, single-family residence in Miami Beach pursuing a LEED Platinum rating is well underway, and the ground floor has just been compl...
There is a new residence in the Malibu hills constructed mostly from an old airplane. Consisting of a main house and six auxiliary buildings, the 747 Wing House is an innovative example o...
I sat down recently with Mark Diaz, the second runner-up in HGTV’s recently concluded "Design Star. " After watching Season 6, I was eager to meet the talented man who always lo...
True Value launches a Facebook web series chronicling the progress of its three DIY contest winners. Thick black paint spattered over walls. A mysterious shrine. Overgrown hedges crawli...
