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Remodeling & Design

Remodeling & Design

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Get the latest news in green certification and home design, plus eco-friendly remodeling tips.

  • 5 tiny home design ideas worth stealing

    Thu, Mar 14, 2013 6:01 PM by yerdle

    These fun designs will win over even the toughest of skeptics.

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  • Homes of the future, today [Infographic]

    Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:15 AM by Matt Hickman

    Blu Homes details a few considerations — energy-efficiency and climate change readiness among them — when thinking about your future home with all signs pointing to modern green prefab.

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  • A Bronx kale: Affordable housing meets hydroponic farming in Morrisania

    Tue, Mar 12, 2013 4:56 PM by Matt Hickman

    In the South Bronx, a 124-unit housing development with a massive rooftop farm combines much-needed low-income housing with a decidedly Bloombergian emphasis on healthy living and fresh food.

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  • Pre-teen tiny house builder finds joy in composting toilets, bubble insulation

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 3:08 PM by Matt Hickman

    Having graduated from the pink playhouse stage, 12-year-old Sicily Kolbeck is building a 128-square-foot solar powered abode as a place to 'bake cupcakes, to read and to hang out with friends.'

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  • Home-powering trash incinerator ski slope breaks ground in Denmark

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 2:35 PM by Matt Hickman

    Finally, something that combines trash incineration with puffy parkas! After a significant delay, work begins on Bjarke Ingels Group's waste-to-energy plant-cum-urban ski resort in Copenhagen.

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  • Man transforms dead wood into eco-furniture

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 1:41 PM by David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily

    Corbin Clay found a sustainable use for wood destroyed by beetles, and his work won him $100,000 from Ketel One Vodka and GQ magazine.

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  • Anybody home? A visit to an uninhabited Chinese 'ghost city' [Video]

    Fri, Mar 08, 2013 2:26 PM by Matt Hickman

    Leslie Stahl of '60 Minutes' gets the chance to say 'empty' and 'desolate' a lot during a tour of Zhengzhou, an eerie testament to China's bloated real estate bubble spurred by unchecked development.

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  • Key design elements in a small kitchen

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 2:52 PM by yerdle

    You don't need stainless steel for a great kitchen, just a setup that focuses on how you cook.

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  • Texas developer eyes shipping containers in shale boom housing shortage

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 8:40 AM by Matt Hickman

    A developer begins work on a 70-unit shipping container apartment complex in Texas' housing-strapped Eagle Ford Shale region with the goal of attracting folks who will stick around beyond the oil boom.

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  • Sweet or sour? Redevelopment plans for Domino Sugar plant released

    Mon, Mar 04, 2013 8:35 PM by Matt Hickman

    The developers who snatched up Brooklyn's historic Domino Sugar factory this past summer have released the rebooted, sure-to-be-polarizing redevelopment plans for the 11-acre riverfront parcel.

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  • Active House movement hits Toronto with skylight-centric luxury condos

    Fri, Mar 01, 2013 2:51 PM by Matt Hickman

    Now that, sir, is a skylight. Lighthaus, a development of 20 energy-efficient townhouses in Toronto's west end, boasts innovative modular skylight systems from Velux that promote fresh air and natural light.

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  • Here's what your home needs as spring nears

    Fri, Mar 01, 2013 1:08 PM by Networx.com

    Warmer weather means it's time to take care of those tasks that have been building up over the last few months.

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  • WFH House: A green abode that conceals freight container framework

    Thu, Feb 28, 2013 2:50 PM by Matt Hickman

    Meet the WFH House, a shipping container home with a green roof, photovoltaics, abundant natural daylighting and a bamboo facade that prevents it from looking like a shipping container home at all.

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  • Happy campers: Hittin' the road in a 40-square-foot teardrop trailer [Video]

    Thu, Feb 28, 2013 11:20 AM by Matt Hickman

    Blogger Christina Nelleman invites faircompanies to squeeze on in to the Sunflower, a teardrop-shaped tiny home-on-wheels that's compact size encourages more outdoor time (provided the weather behaves).

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  • In Sonoma, a green community that's free of sensory overloads

    Wed, Feb 27, 2013 8:30 PM by Matt Hickman

    At Sweetwater Spectrum, the first residential community in the nation to be geared specifically for autistic adults, sustainable and autism-specific design merge with beautiful results.

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