If you tell Sharon Kissack her house smells like a barn, she won’t be insulted. She’s in the final stages of installing straw-bale walls inside, and the scent of sweet, dry hay is just one of the advantages of her unusual choice of materials. Another is the cozy feeling the two-foot-deep walls impart to the […]
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DIY: children’s bedrooms
I was cruising right along, hitting all the mile markers of adulthood — finished school, landed a real job, bought a used car, got hitched, knocked up, the works. But no one makes it out of childhood without facing something that makes them say, “Whoa! Am I really an adult?” For most people, that moment […]






