Nest — Summer 2020
Sustainable Tiny Modules Suited to Social Distancing; The Virtual Reality of Pandemic Real Estate; The Movement Toward More Garden, Less Lawn; Quarantined Artists Get Creative With Home Studios
Quarantined Artists Bring Their Studios Home
Over the past few months, so many statements and stories have been prefaced with “during the pandemic.” This is one of them. After March 24, when Gov. Phil Scott issued a stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, artists — like most of us — suddenly found themselves, well, at home. Endlessly. We wondered…
Nest — Summer 2020
This issue of Nest was conceived, assigned and written with Vermont’s stay-at-home mandate in mind. We interview artists who abandoned studios for smaller work spaces at home. We explore the trend to front yard gardening (who needs grass?). We learn about virtual real estate. And we meet a designer who makes portable, and adorable, “tiny…
Up End This Creates Tiny, Sustainable Rooms on Wheels
Early this month, a U-Haul truck pulling a small, rectangular, flat-roofed building on a homemade trailer parked in front of the stunning lake view at Shelburne Farms. It was a perfect spot for a photo shoot, even if rain clouds threatened. The structure’s designer and chief builder, Michael Zebrowski, and a helper jumped out and…
Urban and Surburban Gardeners Reimagine the Front Lawn
Grass is an easy crop to grow, if it rains. Maintaining it, on the other hand, is one of suburbia’s running jokes. In Vermont’s few suburban areas, transforming front yards into productive garden spaces is nothing new, with residents doing it for aesthetic, practical or philosophical reasons, including the climate impact of maintaining a grass…
Virtual Buying and Selling Transforms Real Estate
Linda and Ryan Logan, a West Virginia-based couple in their late twenties, had no choice but to move during the pandemic. Ryan, who works in information technology, can do his job from anywhere, but Linda was completing her medical school degree and had matched at the University of Vermont for a residency in pathology that…
