The conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Published in Dwell, October 29, 2006A house in Memphis cuts it carbon footprint (albeit with offsets)
Published in Dwell, October 2000The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes Trabulsi: “People are so comfortable here, they never want to leave.”
Published in Dwell, January 15, 2009For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out
Published in Dwell, January 15, 2009When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to eliminate trachoma (the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness). No problem: David flew 7,000 miles to pop the question at a restaurant in Addis Ababa. A year and a trip to the altar later, the Carmels now live in a Chelsea apartment that’s designed in part to make it easy for David to get around in a wheelchair; a diving accident eight years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down
Published in Dwell, January 16, 2009Published in Dwell, January 17, 2009
When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare bones and saw beauty in the blemishes
Published in Dwell, October 10, 2009Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors. Fred Bernstein, a resolute lover of neutrals, attempts to expand his horizon of hues
Published in Dwell, February 2, 2009