Could 3D-Printed Homes be the Answer to Bringing Shelter? (10 photos)

In slums around the world, individuals and families live in makeshift houses created with whatever scrap materials they can gather. These homes often lack clean water and proper toilets, and have leaky roofs that let in the rain and cold. Two young companies in the USA are addressing the problem in a…


Could 3D-Printed Homes be the Answer to Bringing Shelter? (10 photos)
Could 3D-Printed Homes be the Answer to Bringing Shelter? (10 photos)
Source: Houzz Kitchens

Stickybeak: A Steep, Narrow Site Makes Way for a Fun Family Home (15 photos)

The year 2015 marked many a milestone for the Trentini family. Not only was it the year Justin and Samantha Trentini decided to renovate their family home in Annandale, a suburb in Sydney’s inner west; it was also the year Justin’s sister, interior designer Kathryn Trentini, embarked on her first major…


Stickybeak: A Steep, Narrow Site Makes Way for a Fun Family Home (15 photos)
Stickybeak: A Steep, Narrow Site Makes Way for a Fun Family Home (15 photos)
Source: Houzz Kitchens

Growing Vegetables? Here's How to Check Lead Levels in Your Soil (13 photos)

When most people think of lead poisoning, we usually conjure up centuries-old embodiments of this potentially fatal and most toxic of states. The great nineteenth-century writer Charles Dickens described the frightening fate of a woman who worked in the lead mills in ‘A Small Star in the East’. And as…


Growing Vegetables? Here’s How to Check Lead Levels in Your Soil (13 photos)
Growing Vegetables? Here’s How to Check Lead Levels in Your Soil (13 photos)
Source: Houzz Kitchens