Home & Garden Roundup: 08.05.06

Chron H&G this weekend took a look at quirky gardeners and quirky boat buliders, two groups we'd certainly qualify as apartment therapists -- of different stripes.

• It's only a house: Citing our coverage of Unhappy with Eichler, Lynette defends the article and levels the charge that we blogged it with "vitriol."

• TIKI TAKEOFF : Quirky gardener #1, Napa landscaper Jose Mendez, got bored of Tuscan and went tiki.

• Gardening can restore lost sense of nature: Quirky gardener #2 is Jim Musselman, a back-to-nature-in-the-city purist. For Jim, growing his own food has become a spiritual practice.

• Building boats the way they used to : Quirky boatbuilder #1, Sausalito's North Bay Boat Works, designs and builds wooden boats without so much as a CAD program instruction manual.

• Plying the bay waters: Quirky boatbuilder #2 is Derek Van Loan. In Paul Kilduff profile, Van Loan explains how being out on the water sheds light on life on land: "It's almost like sleeping enables you to learn about life."

Comments (2)

I would have liked to have seen examples of this alleged "vitriol." In my opinion, the comments here and on Curbed SF were not particularly bruising.

Moreover, I found it amusing that the anti-Eichlerites immediately opened their letters by crying "fanatic!" -- when there was no example of any Eichler fanaticism in the letters section.

Evans' column read as a thin-skinned diatribe against weblogs that are providing great, daily house&home coverage, and a defense of what was really a piece that ought not have run in the first place.

posted by Lisa in Alameda (not SF!) on 2006-08-07 11:26:42

I believe that most readers of Lynnette Evans's column will tend to agree with those who wrote in to protest -- not defend -- that ridiculous article posing as "journalism." So it is great that she provided the link to apartmenttherapy.com -- free advertising directly to those who are likely to enjoy it!

posted by Deb on 2006-08-07 16:19:20