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Dwell seemed to jump the shark/derail/lose focus/turn over the fruit bowl when they ran the article about the seemingly normal guy who built a house in (if I recall) L.A. You know the one -- it was a whole city block.

Quickly thereafter it turned into a shopping catalog, and the articles started being less about interesting design and more about multi-million dollar remodels; it always seemed like the editors thought articles would be improved with just! more! exclamation! marks! ("and look at the view!").

Some of the owner's interviews also got to be a little much("well, at our other house in... which one was it... oh... Prague!") -- it started to seem like the only thing left to say was how they were working so hard to improve the environment by buying their fourth Prius.

It seems a little disingenious now to ask readers to have faith and come back again. I just flipped through the latest issue on the newsstand, and I can say unless I was in the market for spiffy new appliance porn, there's nothing in there anymore that's appealing.

Most of the interesting reading has moved online in any event -- apartmenttherapy, LiveModern, etc.