A Totally Awesome Kitchen Remodel
project of the month
The kitchen before (at left) was cramped. After relocating the powder room and door and adding a bay window, the 245 square foot new kitchen is bright and open. The many eco-friendly features include the cabinets, the insulation, the paint, the appliances and lighting.
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Inspiration --
I'm deliriously in love with brightly decorated trucks!
I first saw them when my parents lived in Bangkok, Thailand in the late 1970s. A recent NY Times article reminded me of their wild exuberance.
More eye candy here:
Pakistani trucks
Slide show
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Mindful Living & Green Design --
Design With the Other 99%: Cities
October 15 - January 9 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum at the United Nations Visitor Center 1st Ave between 45th & 46th Street, NYC
What have designers have been doing to improve living conditions for the billion people in the world living in informal settlements, or slums? "It's easy to build a house, much harder to build a community," says Cynthia E. Smith, the show's curator. "Cities are very complex, and what the best designers illustrate is how to give form to sometimes very simple ideas. Good design involves bringing not just a fresh eye to problems but, most of all, listening to the people who live in those communities."
 | | Before and after a stair upgrade in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela. |
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