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Dwell October 2008, Vol. 08 Issue 10: Home Savings

Modern Homes Made Affordable

Without a decent dresser, can you dress decently? With the help of two outspoken Hollywood fashion critics we determine if a...

The first year out of college is a wildcard for most people.

In the great American quest for more stuff, big-box stores are nirvana, laden with cheaply priced items by the ton, from diamond...

Architect Ko Wibowo designed a house of prodigious proportions beneath the hulking rise of Mount Ranier.

Rural Texas commonly conjures visions of Stetsons, spurs, and longhorn steer, but the countryside contains more than just cowboys.

Architect Jamie Darnell had a simple plan for his family’s home in Kansas City, Missouri, but the result is anything but plain.

Designers and manufacturers bemoan the profusion of cheaply made copycats, but it’s been proven time and again that...

The Watershed is an off-the-grid writer’s retreat that architect Erin Moore designed for her mother, nature writer Kathleen Dean...

When it comes to real estate, the trailer park gets a bad rap.

With the offices of her upstart nonprofit, Project H, located in the same space as Cameron Sinclair’s Architecture for Humanity,...

Office workers ride zip lines down the streets of San Francisco, where a roller coaster has been installed as a new form of...

"One of the good things about doing decent public design in a prominent place is that people look at it and say: Why...

William McDonough + Partners’ design for a small village in northeastern China was meant to stand as a model for sustainable...