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The Home and Town
Better homes.
Better places.
Practical ideas for improving the way your home works, looks and lives — alongside thoughtful perspectives on neighborhoods, towns, streets and the places we call home.
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A home is part of something bigger.
A house is never just a house. It’s a roofline on a street, a driveway that meets a curb, a renovation that either respects its block or fights it. That’s the premise behind everything we publish here: practical, trade-level guidance on the work itself — plumbing, roofing, kitchens, energy systems — read alongside a planner’s sense of how a home sits inside the town around it. One without the other is half the story.
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