Matt Hickman Blog

Google Maps birdhouses provide shelter, navigational aid for winged travelers
Urban birdhouses get the Google Maps treatment with Taiwanese designer Shu-Chun Hsiao's clever, eye-catching Project Google Birdhouse.
Hitting the green sheets: '13 edition
Want to avoid getting intimate with pesticides this Valentine's Day? If it's time for new bedding, try outfitting your love den with stylish sheet sets made from organic cotton.
Usonian Automatic: Rare Wright home for sale in Cincinnati
A 1955 Usonian Automatic home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is for sale in the Cincinnati 'burbs for $1.788M. Here's hoping that whoever buys it grants the home's current owner visitation rights.
Food lighting: Lumière au Chocolat is an LED-based delight
Finally, a lamp that's good enough to eat ... or devour with your lover '9 1/2 Weeks'-style. For Stockholm Design Week, designer Alexander Lervik debuts an LED lamp with a slowly melting chocolate shade.
Indoor gardening kits: Hiber-Nation '13
Trapped at home this past weekend with nothing to do that didn't involve shoveling? The next time a massive winter storm rolls around, keep dormant green thumbs busy with an indoor veggie or herb garden.
Playing catch up: Linking Nemo
A whopper of a winter storm is descending on the Northeast (and Weather.com is reaching hysteric new heights). We suggest riding it out in the company of Michael Graves, Sir James Dyson and Moby.
Unstoppable starchitect meets his match in form of octogenarian rain tree
Renowned, remarkably coiffed Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has taken America by storm. But will a massive rain tree put a cramp on his design for a riverfront-revitalizing development in Fort Lauderdale?
Have you fallen victim to the 'IKEA Effect'?
Feel like you were on top of the world after putting together that flat-packed bed frame? Thank the 'IKEA Effect,' an exaggerated sense of self-worth felt after assembling products yourself.
In your dreams: 'Nightmare on Elm Street' house selling for $2.1M
After gutting a neglected home with a nightmarish cinematic legacy, an L.A. homeowner has decided to sell the place where Freddy Krueger met his match for the first — but certainly not the last — time.
Cuomo: Don't rebuild, let Mother Nature take back Sandy-damaged areas
Now that he's laid the climate change card on the table, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposes a $400M Superstorm Sandy home buyout plan in which high-risk areas would be handed back over to Mother Nature.

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