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Spaces for life

By Lance McCarthy ***Warning*** If you read this, you should know I’m going to ask you to respond at the end. If you decide not to, and just continue eating your cereal or Facebooking or driving to work (hey! you’re...
By Lance McCarthy Remember when the recession was picking up speed? Saving money was cool for a couple of weeks and “green” became the new black. Every news report and TV commercial seemed to be touting how eco-friendly they...
By Lance McCarthy Did you see what I saw yesterday? I was driving down 63rd Street, window open, and there it was: the first leaf of fall. A tree full of green, and there on the edge, a little golden brown.For those...
  By Lance McCarthy One of the most misunderstood parts of a project is the role of the architect/designer. We see a wide spectrum of personalities, from the silk-scarved artiste flourishing his pencil dramatically through a worksite to the over-priced bespectacled...
By Lance McCarthy Q: What does it take to make a small fortune in the stock market? A: A large fortune. The same could be said of many kitchens. They can easily be the most expensive area of the house. The difficulty...
By Lance McCarthy From the looks of old bathrooms in this area, the homes were all inhabited by skinny dwarves who never got ready at the same time.  The showers are too tiny, the countertop barely has room for a...
By Lance McCarthy I’ll start our “How much does a __________ cost?” conversation with a fairly easy topic: decks. I have seen a lot of great options become available in the 20 years since I started building decks in college,...
  By Lance McCarthy Mythbusters: I love that show. Would a penny dropped from the Empire State building really kill you? Can you build a motorcycle out of a potato and some hairpins? (Wait..that last one was MacGyver…) Construction and remodeling has...
By Lance McCarthy Remember the feeling you had as a child when you crawled into a blanket fort? I remember it exactly. These words weren’t in my 5-year-old vocabulary, but it was a mix of safety (my brother can’t get...