Meanwhile, Mr. Cruz is collaborating with the artist Rebecca Solnit on a theoretical proposal for transforming a 70,000-square-foot McMansion in suburban San Francisco — built during the dot-com boom — into multifamily housing. Mr. Cruz believes that grotesquely overscaled houses across the country will eventually go through a similar process, although that time could be 50 years away.

"It's the next ring of densification," Mr. Cruz said confidently of the mega-McMansions, "so we thought it might make a perfect test case. How do you retrofit them?"

Subtractions should be the next new thing in home remodling, "and this maple tree is where the 18' turreted entry-way once stood. or "Herb removed the Bonus Room and put in this vegatble garden."
- steve 3-14-2006 9:20 am [add a comment]

i want to live in the media room (aka bomb shelter)
- bill 3-14-2006 7:11 pm [add a comment]