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DUO DICKINSON and ANN NYBERG Talk About Home Remodeling

Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (ET)

New Haven, United States

DUO DICKINSON and ANN NYBERG Talk About Home Remodeling

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Are you one of the millions of homeowners stymied by the nasty housing market who are considering remodeling rather than moving out?

Thoughtful design is the key to avoiding disappointment and unexpected maintenance expenses in your renovation results. Help is available in Staying Put: Remodel Your House to Get the Home You Want (Taunton Press, 2011), architect Duo Dickinson's newest book.

On Saturday, March 3, at 3 pm, Duo and broadcast personality Ann Nyberg will get into the challenges and solutions for people who want to transform their houses into homes that more truly reflect the way they live—without breaking the budget, and without sacrificing good design.


Duo Dickinson has done his professional best to encourage the move away from McMansions toward beautiful houses with a small footprint that support a creative, comfortable--and more affordable--lifestyle. Staying Put shows how you can get the home you want from the house you have--with photos and descriptions of projects for all budgets. Copies will be available for sale and signing.

 

Could there be a more perfect book for this American moment? Figuring out how to hunker down happily--replacing unsustainable fantasies of shelter porn with long-term, real-life shelter love--is the new name of the game, and I know of no more expert, charming guide than Duo Dickinson. --KURT ANDERSEN, host of public radio's Studio 360 and author of Heyday

Free parking in Yale Lot #51 on Temple St.

 

 

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133 Elm St
New Haven, 06510

Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (ET)


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The Main (Ives) branch of the New Haven Free Public Library system is located at 133 Elm St., across from the New Haven Green, corner of Elm and Temple. Yale Lot #51 on Temple Street (across the street from the library) opens to the public at 4pm, and there are 2-hour parking meters on streets surrounding the library. More information may be found at www.cityofnewhaven.com/library.

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  News and Updates
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Last but certainly not least comes a book whose subject is home renovation but is just as much about common sense as it is about aesthetic sense. “Staying Put: Remodel Your House to Get the Home You Want” (The Taunton Press) is the seventh book by Duo Dickinson, an architect in Connecticut who has a longstanding, prescient enthusiasm for small houses. Dickinson, whose designs tend toward the traditional and the comfortable — you won’t find any 50-foot walls of glass or rooms that end in 30-degree angles here — argues that our obsession with the now-burst real estate bubble propelled people to design houses for resale value rather than for livability, and to imagine that by constantly moving up, they’d get the home they always wanted. Read more