Top Stories Today, we're pulling some stories from the interior of the Home & Garden section and bringing them to the forefront because they are most relevant to AT readers:
If a Sofa Doesn’t Fit, They’ll Make It Fit. Your AT editors are all familiar with this problem as desperate sofa-owners email us weekly asking for advice or recommendations on these services. The Times looks at the growth of the sofa disassembly business in New York. Perfect AT Reading!
Can I use bold color in a small space? YES! Some great advice for painters of small spaces from Jamie Drake, Joe Nye and our own Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan...
- House Proud: Southern Gothic: Ghosts Welcome New York painter Hunt Slonem discusses his love of old houses and gives a tour of his newest acquisition, an 1832 plantation house called Lakeside. Slideshow.
- Gray Water: The Dirty Water Underground. This piece focuses on the Gray Water movement in California and the "Greywater Guerrillas, a team focused on promoting and installing clandestine plumbing systems that recycle gray water — the effluent of sinks, showers and washing machines — to flush toilets or irrigate gardens."
- In the Garden: Reshaping Their Own Worldview. Rick Darke and Melinda Zoehre's Pennsylvania garden. The native plant movement evolves.
- Personal Shopper: Animal Themes in home decor.
(Photographs by Robert Caplin, Jennifer S. Altman, Abode/Beateworks/Corbis, Fred R. Conrad, Jamie Kripke, Steve Legato, Hiroko Masuike)
I actually ordered a couch from Divon (www.divon.com) through a local dealer precisely because they are designed to be disassembled and reassembled. The delivery person, however, fussed at me about the fact that he did indeed have to take the thing apart to get it through my door and was even going to try to charge me extra until the store owner got on the phone and told him to cool it. In any case, I now have a 90-inch sleeper sofa with nicely curved arms in a lion-colored gold/brown cheneille - first step in filling my new, nearly empty apartment....
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The guy on the left in the first sofa picture looks like Vincent D'Onofrio from Law and Order - Criminal Intent
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