This week, The New York Times Home & Garden section covers the plight of an Urban Nomad, the growing trend of having your home photographed by a professional, living walls (pictured at left), re-potting plants for spring, and a Finnish cabin in Arkansas...
Playwright Brooke Berman chronicles her own life as an Urban Nomad (30 apartments in 20 years!) in her new play, "Hunting and Gathering": Moving Soon to an Apartment Near You. There is an audio slideshow and cool graphic detailing Berman's many moves around New York City.
Apartment Therapy has looked at publishing your own home book and watercolor house portraits as ways to document your living space. The New York Times takes it up a notch in Picture, Picture on the Wall ... and looks at the high-end where a growing number of people are hiring professional photographers to document their home.
Philip Besonen sought private space and so he built himself a 12-by-16-foot cedar building with the help of a local carpenter:
A Private Matter in the Backyard.
Room to Improve: I’ve heard about public buildings with green walls, but can they be used in a house, like green roofs?
In the Garden: Repotting for Spring, Mixing in Some Memories
(Pics: Tony Cenicola, Joyce Dopkeen, Spencer Tirey, Sylwia Kapuscinski)
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I found the article about the guy hiding his backyard retreat from his wife weirdly touching, in a reticent Midwestern kind of way. You can imagine the conversation they had when she discovered he'd built a teeny house rather than a shed, and then confessed she had also been craving privacy for the last 30 years (!).
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