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Why McMansions suck⁠ ⁠ If you've never heard of a McMansion, get ready for a crash course in gaudy, oversized home design. In this hilarious talk, creator of the blog ‘McMansion Hell’ Kate Wagner roasts these architectural eyesores, and discusses how builders and homebuyers can make better design choices with an eye to... See more

What happened to America's boardinghouses? And what's the story behind one of the last ones left? Find out in my latest for @reason! https://t.co/73PwPw3GPF

You cannot escape gray floors, Amanda Mull writes. ⁠ ⁠ If you’ve watched enough HGTV and scrolled through enough Zillow listings you have no intention of buying, you’ve probably noticed the ubiquity of gray floors. With them, you’ll likely also find a subway-tiled backsplash; upper kitchen cabinets replaced with... See more

Home-renovation media has persuaded many people to remodel their way into near-identical houses, Amanda Mull writes.⁠ ⁠ On real-estate TV, brokers and buyers wince and gag over dark cabinets and high-shine brass light fixtures and white appliances, all relics of trends past. Often, the transformations involve explicit... See more

Let others rhapsodize the new, the soulless, the blank slates. @philippenaouri covets the old. “I’m into vintage Levi’s, vintage cars, vintage watches, vintage everything,” says the Los Angeles developer and former fashion designer. So it follows that, last year, when he happened upon the last home that the midcentury architect Edward Fickett built... See more