Jack Balderrama Morley is the managing editor of Dwell. Their book, Dream Facades, about reality TV and architecture, comes out in 2026. They have a graduate degree in architecture.

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Garbage picking was once a great way to furnish our homes on the cheap. If we resurrected it, would we be better off?
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25 years after its debut, “Trading Spaces” exposes the reality of wanting something different out of our homes.
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New York City’s vaunted Penn South development is almost impossible to get into, so when the Kruminses did, they wasted no time...