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House & HomeWatch: Burn! It’s Cold In Here

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There must be some Lady in the atmosphere. This week’s Best Section That Ever Was And/Or Ever Will Be brings us a stunning three-(internet)-page report on people who have stopped using their fridges. Yes. You read right. Stopped. Completely. Finito. Instead, they keep their perishables in frozen-water-bottle-cooled coolers, or outside, or in tiny basement freezers. It’s all very charming in a better-you-than-me sort of way. Less charming is yet another reminder that Domino folded. We had just about soothed the pain, let up on the histrionics, picked ourselves up out of the ragged puddle we’d been creating on just about every flat surface we could find, and attempted to move on. But the Gray One is insensitive to a fault, uncaring to the nth degree, and Green digs the knife into our split heart once again to—through a story on the blogosphere (hello, world!) effect and a number-crunching look at sales vs ad pages—remind us of just how great Domino was, even if no one ever quite actually bought those, er, “accessible” Pottery Barn side-tables or West Elm beds. Speaking of makeovers, Edificial favorite Ernest Beck takes a break from thinking about starting that whole Change Observer thing to write about a horrendously ugly “abomination” of an LA house turned superfly through the replacement of its mansard roof with a boxy slatted facade. Beloved Canuck Tim McKeough appears once again, this time with fewer dogs and more coffee, and also, radiators exist. Stuff-You-Can-Buy is fair to middling with the exception of a—stay tuned!—shocking headline we’ll be digging our claws into and the shockingly cute knitted hamster house. And so, today’s scores, in order of our order:

Eva: 4.8, 4.7, 5.5, 5.6, 3.5, 3.0
Ian: 4.9, 4.7, 5.2, 3.7, 4.1, 3.9

Trashing the Fridge [New York Times]
A Girl World Closes, and Fans Mourn [New York Times]
Striped With Light [New York Times]
The Cafe Way [New York Times]
Radiating Style as Well as Heat [New York Times]