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A piece of history–yours for $90K

September 22, 2011

Here’s a story I wrote for the Design New England blog, about a rare piece of craftsmanship looking for a new home.

New England Icons hitting the independents

August 30, 2011

Several readers have expressed a strong desire to patronize their local independent bookstore when they buy the book. While I can’t vouch for all of them out there, I can confirm that Boston-area spots like The Harvard Coop, Brookline Booksmith, Porter Square Books, The Concord Bookshop, and Wellesley Booksmith have it on their shelves and await your business!

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New England Icons makes the perfect holiday gift

July 11, 2011

My new book, New England Icons, is a collection of essays that breathe life into the sights that make New England unlike any other place on earth. Read them, and the next time you drive by a village green or a church steeple, you’ll know a whole lot more than you did before. [...]

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My kinda grass

April 29, 2011

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Worth a thousand words

April 28, 2011

In architecture as in real estate (not to mention Hollywood and the rest of our visual culture), a good image goes a very long way. Professional photographs sell magazines like Design New England, which in turn help sell the services of architects and builders, as readers track them down after being captured by an image [...]

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Boston Society of Architects’ Twitter feed

April 28, 2011

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From the floor: Residential Design + Construction

April 28, 2011

The RDC show is up and running, today till 5:30pm, and Friday 10am-3pm. Excellent chance to check the latest and greatest on the materials and services fronts.

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Heat Pumps for the Earflap Crowd

July 27, 2010

In my research for the new TV series This New House (premiering at 8pm, July 29, on the DIY Network), I came across a heat source you might want to check out. Heat pumps are tried-and-true machines that cool and heat buildings across the southern tier of the U.S. They use refrigerant to move heat [...]

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Summer 2010

July 7, 2010

June’s house of the month is a glimpse of the future It’s a demonstration house that contains just about every high-tech bell and whistle currently on the market. Which of them will make it in the long run? Only time will tell, but it’s more than academic to check them out in a real-life situation, [...]

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Dreams and Triangles

February 4, 2010

I’ve been involved in house transformations for over two decades. Of the 33 renovations we featured during my time as producer of This Old House, each and every one was somebody’s dream house; the same goes for the projects I work on now in my career as a renovation consultant. No matter what the job [...]

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