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Living With Less: Survival Strategies
New York Times

The New York Times has a project page set up to gather the stories that make up "the human side of the global recession". We just watched a video of a young Philadelphia artist who tells a bit about h...

Unintentionally Naughty Names in Your Neighborhood?

"Aesthetically unsuitable" is one way the NYT described them. The phrases "inadvertent place-name titillation" and "street names that could give offense" also came up in the article about unintentiona...

Are Americans Obsessed with Home Ownership?

The NY Times Op-Ed 6.23.08

In Paul Krugman's Op-Ed for the NY Times yesterday, he made the case that Americans are obsessed with home ownership to an unhealthy extent. As renters who are consistently asked when we're going to...

An Ohio Home Renovation Without Credit Card Debt

The New York Times 04.17.08

Yesterday's New York Times featured an uplifting article about David and Gina Giffels, who have been renovating their 1913 Tudor home in Akron for 12 years without the use of credit cards. Their onl...

Survey: Is This a Décor Conflicted Era?

We read this piece in the New York Times (Thursday, Dec. 27), and the identifying "conflict" was a norm that we've all likely become accustomed to. The gist: the "traditional" and "contemporary" polar...