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NEIGHBORLY HOME DESIGN
Simple home improvement projects to make your building more neighborly.CHECKLIST
- Plant your windows, porch/stoop/balcony or other publicly viewable space with plants and flowers.
- Use your stoop, porch or balcon
- Get rid of the fence in front of your building, or at least minimize it.
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What is a neighborly home? Browse through DIY Neighborhood: Logan Square, a guide to neighborly building design in Logan Square, for ideas that work for your home. This could include:
The booklet is divided into sections for renters, condo owners and boards, landlords and people who want to start co-ops. Pick a project that you're interested in, and try it! It's not hard to sit on your porch or stoop.
This project is an extension of Neighbors Project's successful DIY Neighborhood: Logan Square event in July 2007, in which we profiled neighborly homes in Logan Square.
- Getting rid of your fence.
- Grilling in front of your home.
- Planting some flowers in your windows.
- Holding more stoop parties.
The booklet is divided into sections for renters, condo owners and boards, landlords and people who want to start co-ops. Pick a project that you're interested in, and try it! It's not hard to sit on your porch or stoop.
This project is an extension of Neighbors Project's successful DIY Neighborhood: Logan Square event in July 2007, in which we profiled neighborly homes in Logan Square.
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We're looking for designers to help us turn our Neighborly Home Design guide into a poster. E-mail Nick to volunteer.
Nick Jackson
DIY Neighborhood: Logan Square, a booklet on neighborly building design in Logan Square. Request a print copy by e-mailing Nick Jackson with your full address.
Your two minute guide to Neighborly Building Design.
Thanks to everyone who came to DIY Neighborhood: Logan Square! Check out photos of the event at the Neighbors Project flickr pool.