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Eight plants that forgive a missed watering — and the one rule that keeps them all alive.

Hang a summer bunch upside down for two weeks and it will last until spring.


Studio Halden Rowe kept every rock on the site — and built the house over them.

A white concrete home in Austin turns its back to the street and opens completely to its garden.

Two architects built their own weekend cabin in the Cascades for less than $300,000.

Wide pine floors, a working fireplace and a family that refused to rush the renovation.

After years of building ever-larger houses, developers in Ohio, Texas and the Carolinas are returning to compact homes on small lots aimed at first-time buyers.
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