Cool-Season Vegetables: How To Grow Chard

Chard, also known as Swiss chard, is a glowing star of the fall garden. If you have a peek at the leaves of its cousin, the beet, you can see a family resemblance. But unlike beets, chard does not wait for you to notice it at the backyard. It easily reaches 2 feet or taller […]

Garden Tour: A Ravaged Plot Emerges as a Showpiece

Barb Krasuski and Peter Swan didn’t think they needed sinkhole insurance. Actually, they moved back and forth several times before paying the $40-a-year premium. Several decades after a giant storm rolled through central Pennsylvania, resulting in flooding and extensive damage throughout the region. Let us just say the insurance came in handy. Join me today […]

Architecture Explained in Venn Diagrams

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Manhattan Brownstone Hides a Surprise

On the south side of a block of East 14th Street, between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan’s East Village, sits an unassuming brownstone renovated by Bill Peterson in 2004. The job’s exterior conveys very little about what’s happening inside, but this tour will reveal that plenty is happening, much of it in unanticipated ways. […]

Southern California Gardener's September Checklist

September in Southern California is a transition from summertime to springlike weather warm days, crisp nights along with a chance of hot, dry Santa Ana winds. Over the next few months, we’ll observe the shift at local nurseries from summer bloomers to winter flowering plants and out of hot season veggies to cool season types. […]

Contemporary Farmhouse in Rural Vermont

Architect Rolf Kielman has reinterpreted the rural Vermont farmhouse by expressing his clients live, work and use the area today. The house rejects the typical New England building tradition that is composed of “big house, back house and barn” and rather includes the structural arrangement of garage/apartment, big house and work division. The farmhouse does […]

What Does Your Inspiration Board Say About You?

I’m no expert, but when I look at someone’s inspiration board I feel like that I could get a direct sense of whether they are a left-brained (logical, analytical) creative or a right-brained (random, instinctive ) creative. I understand that all of creatives utilize their right brains extensively, but a few people creative folk have […]

When You're Suddenly Solo at Home

Our connections to our houses tend to be complex and connected to the men and women in our lives. So when we lose somebody, whether due to a separation or death or a different reason, our connection to the house inevitably changes too. Some people decide to leave the house entirely, while others choose to […]

Gabion Wall

A gabion is a wall built of stainless steel baskets full of stone. Flexible in its size and appearance, it withstands pressure without cracking, conforms to ground movement, drains freely and can be shaped, tapered, curved or curved. Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Cages of some custom made woodwork plus different heights make this gabion […]

Computer-Rendered Architecture Dares to Dream

As a demonstration tool, the computer rendering has effectively displaced the hand-drawn one for architects. This goes together with an increased reliance on computer technologies, which means that an architect’s design that’s drafted or modeled in CAD (Computer-Aided Design) applications is often used to make a rendering. What computer renderings achieve beyond hand-drawn renderings is […]