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 Koray Duman, a young architect from Turkey, transformed his East Village apartment for $25,000.
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Living with the clones of a dead dog has its surprises. The DNA may be the same but the behavior is another story.
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Allen B. Schwartz, founder of the A.B.S. clothing line, was a “master of the trend” in his heyday, and now his 1,200-square-foot apartment on East 52nd Street gets a makeover.
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QI have a crape myrtle and a franklinia tree on one side of my house, both apparently suffering from a nutrient deficiency. In the past two growing seasons, the leaves have turned yellow and only the veins remain green. They are planted in poor soil: fill dirt from the time the house was built. What can I do?
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It's important to start the new year with good news, and there has been plenty of it in the gardening sector. For seed companies, 2008 was a bonanza, fueled largely by a national trend toward homegrown food. Surprisingly, it was often younger Americans adding beans and cauliflower to their electronic carts. Those of us who lecture on gardening, and are used to addressing a room full of gray heads, are seeing more brown, blond, red and black. Many of these young enthusiasts are even taking the next step and becoming farmers.
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A naturalistic hilltop garden above Napa Valley has been carefully designed not to look designed at all.
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It’s not a mystery that trees are good for the environment, and the Forest Service’s Center for Urban Forest Research has a software program to compute that benefit. The Tree Carbon Calculator uses data like a tree’s age and location to see how much carbon dioxide it captures from the atmosphere and how much its shade reduces the energy needed for cooling. The program, equipped for California but to be updated nationwide by summer, was created to guide cities, utilities and schools that want to plant trees, said Greg McPherson, the center’s director. But homeowners can use it, too. He entered data about the London plane tree outside his office in Davis, Calif., and learned that each year it captures 113 pounds of carbon and saves his building 162 kilowatt-hours in energy, “relatively good numbers.” The calculator can be downloaded at www.fs.fed.us/psw. To understand your results, comparative data is at www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications under the first “Publication ...
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Rather than gutting the early 19th-century Georgian building that houses the new Rough Luxe hotel in London, or glossing over its imperfections, Rabih Hage, the architect and designer, practiced a different kind of minimalism. He decided “to do the least construction work possible — to change only two doors and add only one door,” Mr. Hage said.
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The New York decorator Katie Ridder spends Augusts in Mishaum Point, Mass., a seaside town with not a lot of action, she said. So each year she and her children find a project: one summer, they quilted; another, they made shell necklaces. Two years ago, they began to design wallpaper, an ambitious endeavor that stretched beyond the summer vacation. “It was a very slow process,” Ms. Ridder said, “because I’m not an artist.” (Some would dispute that: her painterly interiors have an exotic Moorish flavor with many handmade elements, like stenciled walls and block-print fabrics.).
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The furniture maker Thos. Moser has come out with a lounge chair and matching ottoman that are as much sculpture as seating.
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