Remodeling & Design

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

CHUCK LEAVELL'S LOVE OF THE LAND: How homes are becoming smarter

Fri, Feb 22, 2013 11:27 AM

MNN Co-Founder and Rolling Stones keyboardist profiles new innovations that are making houses healthier and more efficient.
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Are green roofs really good for you? [Infographic]
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 6:37 PM by Matt Hickman
Those delightfully witty infographic wizards over at Movoto.com provide an obvious answer by wrangling up the myriad benefits of green roof-ery.
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Tiny House Infographic project meets Kickstarter goal
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:11 PM by Matt Hickman
Setting out to tell the story of the tiny house movement in an easy-to-digest infographic, Ryan Mitchell launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project. Not surprisingly, it got a big response.
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America's oldest indoor shopping mall to be reborn as mixed-use micro-loft complex
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 11:00 AM by Matt Hickman
In Providence, the biggest city in America's smallest state, comes a 48-unit micro-apartment complex that aims to revive a struggling 19th-century indoor shopping center.
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Buy a print, help to protect a landmark Los Angeles home
Mon, Feb 18, 2013 9:05 PM by Matt Hickman
The Eames Foundation launches a 250-year conservation campaign to help protect and preserve the Pacific Palisades studio and home of the beloved modern design duo.
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Multipurpose furniture saves precious space
Mon, Feb 18, 2013 4:36 PM by yerdle
Furnishings that pull double or triple duty really earn their keep.
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How to make the most of small living spaces
Mon, Feb 18, 2013 11:29 AM by yerdle
Here's how to make a small space look and feel bigger without adding an inch.
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Homeless cats to get Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired digs at Florida college
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 12:20 PM by Matt Hickman
Modernist architecture, feral cats, charitable sorority girls ... there's a little something for everyone in this story out of the famed campus of Florida Southern College.
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It's Stikwood, peel-and-stick wood paneling
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 5:40 PM by Networx.com
Here's a way to get wood paneling without so much work.
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Usonian Automatic: Rare Wright home for sale in Cincinnati
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 11:01 AM by Matt Hickman
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.
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Food lighting: Lumière au Chocolat is an LED-based delight
Mon, Feb 11, 2013 11:45 AM by Matt Hickman
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.
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What icicles and spiders reveal about your home
Sun, Feb 10, 2013 11:56 PM by Starre Vartan
You might be surprised to know what nature can tell you about your home's energy efficiency.
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Unstoppable starchitect meets his match in form of octogenarian rain tree
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 12:58 PM by Matt Hickman
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?
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Have you fallen victim to the 'IKEA Effect'?
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 7:05 PM by Matt Hickman
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.
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In your dreams: 'Nightmare on Elm Street' house selling for $2.1M
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 10:30 AM by Matt Hickman
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.
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