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  • Aerial reassurance: FEMA soft launches Check Your Home app

    Mon, Nov 12, 2012 8:05 AM by Matt Hickman

    FEMA partners with the Civil Air Patrol to launch an app that allows displaced evacuees in the Northeast to view post-Sandy aerial imagery of their inaccessible homes.

  • Swede relief: Following Sandy's wrath, IKEA donates to Red Cross, Red Hook Initiative

    Fri, Nov 09, 2012 9:00 AM by Matt Hickman

    IKEA, a major presence in this displaced blogger's battered neighborhood, launches several initiatives to provide comfort and support to those impacted by last week's devastating storm.

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  • Animal house: Power your home with pets [Infographic]

    Wed, Nov 07, 2012 7:45 PM by Matt Hickman

    In a mission to maintain its title as the most irrelevant real estate website on the planet, Movoto.com explores methods of pet-generated power. Looks like I'm now on the market for 263 industrious hamsters.

  • Phoenix's embattled David Wright House has found a new owner

    (Hopefully) saved! Frank Lloyd Wright home dodges demolishment

    Tue, Nov 06, 2012 11:00 AM by Matt Hickman

    An anonymous buyer steps forward to purchase a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home from developers who had planned to raze it — a mere week before Phoenix's city council was scheduled to vote on the home's landmark status.

  • Clothing being passively dried indoors

    Indoor line-drying: Good for your wallet but bad for your health?

    Mon, Nov 05, 2012 1:00 PM by Matt Hickman

    A study conducted by the Mackintosh School of Architecture finds that hanging clothing indoors to dry during the winter can pose health risks to those suffering from respiratory ailments such as asthma.

  • A digital clock

    Mother Nature meets Father Time: 2012 edition

    Sun, Nov 04, 2012 8:00 AM by Matt Hickman

    Spend a few moments on Sunday grudgingly setting your clock back an hour? Find that perhaps you're ready for a new one? Consider one of these 10 eye-catching, time-keeping home accessories.

  • The Hue, a web-enabled LED from Philips

    With Philips latest LED release, color and convenience comes at a cost

    Thu, Nov 01, 2012 10:24 PM by Matt Hickman

    Philips, a company known for its L Prize-winning, checking account-busting incandescent replacements, enters the web-enabled LED market with a spendy, smart and super-chromatic showstopper dubbed Hue.

  • Breezy Point, Queens in the wake of Superstorm Sandy

    Watch: Sandy ravages Breezy Point with both flood and fire

    Thu, Nov 01, 2012 1:09 PM by Matt Hickman

    Horrifying images of destruction have emerged in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Perhaps the most haunting, however, are those coming out of the seaside community of Breezy Point, Queens.

  • How to keep squirrels out of your attic

    Wed, Oct 31, 2012 4:38 PM by Tom Oder

    And some ideas for evicting them if they've already set up shop.

  • a scarecrow at lyndhurst, a historic estate in Tarrytown, N.Y.

    Photos: Motley mess of scarecrows invade historic Westchester estate

    Wed, Oct 31, 2012 11:30 AM by Matt Hickman

    Sure, they do a better job at posing for photos than discouraging birds, but this army of eclectic scarecrows installed at one of the Hudson's grandest historic estates is a fine example of DIY Halloween-craft.

  • Energy-savings potential of LED lighting [Infographic]

    Tue, Oct 30, 2012 9:14 PM by Matt Hickman

    In commemoration of National Energy Action Month, our friends at Cree share an infographic highlighting the energy-saving prowess of LED lighting.

  • Red Hook, Brooklyn

    Photos: Returning home after Sandy

    Tue, Oct 30, 2012 5:45 PM by Matt Hickman

    As evacuated homeowners and renters across the East Coast return home to assess the damage left in superstorm Sandy's wake, I tour my own waterlogged Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook.

  • As Hurricane Sandy approaches, the Gowanus Canal begins to flood at 2nd St. Brooklyn.

    As Sandy approaches, a walk along the toxic Gowanus Canal

    Mon, Oct 29, 2012 12:18 PM by Matt Hickman

    Your dutiful blogger has been evacuated from his home. However, it didn't stop me from taking a stroll along with banks of an infamously filthy canal in Brooklyn that's begun flooding ahead of Hurricane Sandy's arrival.

  • lice on a Q-Tip

    Natural remedies for lice

    Fri, Oct 26, 2012 6:28 PM by Kimi Harris

    With the school season in full swing, you may have to deal with lice in your children's school — but don't panic. Here are some natural, highly effective treatment options.

  • Playing catch up: Ghosts, ghouls and green home news

    Fri, Oct 26, 2012 10:00 AM by Matt Hickman

    Scare yourself silly this weekend-before-halloween with terrifying tales of homes built from rammed earth, chefs giving farming a go and recycled content chairs that look like 'crystalized barf.'

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