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After their second child was born, Hayley Caradoc-Hodgkins and Leo Bruno Todd wanted out of London. She’s a photo editor and he’s a painter/art technician, and for years they had “dreamed of working together and hoped to find a place where we could host and look after people,” Hayley tells us. They set their sights on rural southeast Wales, just over the border from England, their own favorite getaway destination. During the summer of London’s first lockdown in 2020 the pickings were slim and the family was short on time: they needed to find a place to rent where Odette,...

Over the past few years we’ve seen a (welcome) resurgence in mending: taking a needle and thread to socks, sweaters, and kitchen linens as needed to help them last (and avoid buying new). It’s an old-fashioned solution that’s returned, in part, as an inch-by-inch, stitch-by-stitch holdfast against fast fashion and disposable culture. But patching isn’t just for pockets. Just one of the many resourceful and eclectic ideas we love in an architect couple’s NYC townhouse we recently profiled (see “Silly, Thrifty, and Not Too Serious”: Architects Maria Berman and Brad Horn at Home in Harlem): couch cushions repaired with mismatched...

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels Spring is the perfect time to thoroughly clean all of those areas you’ve neglected during the winter. There are plenty of great tools that can make this chore a lot easier. However, New Yorkers tend not to have a lot of space for storing cleaning tools. But no worries: we found some cool items that don’t take up a lot of space and can be easily stored. All of these products have been hand-selected by Team 6sqft. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these affiliate links. All prices reflect those at the...

Amanda is a long-time reader and a familiar presence in the comments here, and I’m delighted she chose to participate! I always send readers the ten usual questions, along with some extras they can choose to answer if they like, and Amanda decided to answer a lot of the extra questions. So, we get the chance to know her really well today. 🙂 1. Tell us a little about yourself I am a historian who studies race and banking in American history. Our family at Multnomah Falls on a home exchange to explore the Pacific Northwest in 2019. My husband...

This is the way ... that some of the most famous "Star Wars" moments came to be. Given the multilayered lore behind the galaxy far, far away, it should come as no surprise that many of the plot decisions across the franchise's rich history are more than meets the eye.George Lucas didn't freeze Han Solo in "The Empire Strikes Back" just for the fun of it. Darth Vader didn't show us the might of his evil in "Rogue One" for nothing. These and other favorite sequences have real-world strategies rooted in their fictional placement. As glorious as "Star Wars" is,...