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First, for your listening and viewing pleasure, here’s the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Spring 2011 show – can you tear yourself away from those models to read this?  For those of you who are wondering why I occasionally toss in some fashion here at the urbaneer.com blog, let it be…

One of the next dreams I’m going to manifest is a Green House, but I don’t mean a place to grow tomatoes. I mean a residence which has a heck of a lot more sustainability than the majority of urban architecture. Having spent almost two decades engaged in the design, redevelopment, and sales of adaptive reuse…

Three days ago I was up to my eye balls in stress while a barrage of boxes and furniture negotiated by three strapping movers crossed the threshold of my temporary vintage apartment in The Annex. As each mover passed I barked the room where each item was destined and, to…

As a realtor I’ve been hesitant to refer a moving company for quite some time. I’ve learned that any firm is only as good as its employees, and in an industry with an enormous turnover of staff, it makes it risky choosing who to hire. However, despite the company’s name which I…

First, one of the joys of blogging is finding pics that appropriately convey what you’re trying to say. Once I had decided to call this blog ‘Smooth Move’ I googled my title and these were four of many images that came up in the search engine. My apologies in advance if I’m using your photo…

This intimate ten unit condominium, called Villa Blanca, was constructed about twenty years ago in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  As the building stacks up the hillside, I love how the irregular organic-shaped floor plates wrapped in planters of colourful flowers create indoor/outdoor slices of living overlooking the ocean. While this isn’t a…