When the Union Square subway station in New York was renovated a few years ago, the original 14th Street tile-work was salvaged and turned into beautiful stone-backed columns; each a tribute to old-world craftsmanship. The redesign used what was there to transform the former markers into modern works of art.
Right now, above the station on [...]

Last week my daughter Tracy and I came across an appealing new shop called Green Depot, tucked in between the many lighting stores lining the Bowery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Lighting fixtures with blackboard shades and chalk messages hung from the ceiling.  There were walls full of colorful zero VOC paints, easy-care, safe [...]

It seems that every day more and more people are becoming eco-conscious. Even my husband, who years ago teased me unmercifully about being a fanatic recycler and light-turner-outer, has gotten with the program and has joined the green team. If it’s paper, glass or metal, these days, he is conscientious about placing it in our [...]

Years ago, my husband, Joe, sang the theme song for the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger weight-lifting movie, Pumping Iron, but now, when we hear “pump it up,” we are reminded of how expensive gas has become and how that reality is affecting our lives.
It was the first thing my client, Mrs.Dawson, pointed out last Wednesday when [...]

My firm’s website, redecorate.com, has a monthly contest and we normally receive around 250 – 300 entries, from all over. But last month more than twice that number were sent in. Clearly, the subject hit a nerve with a lot of people. The July question was: With the high price of gas, are you spending [...]