Why we aspire to live in a dumb house

Why less tech at home is starting to mean better living.

A couple of months ago, the clock in our kitchen died after fifteen years of ruling our roost. It was a simple vintage number I had acquired at Rejuvenation back when we were living in a 1910 farmhouse with red-and-white checkerboard Formica flooring, and it never did fit our current home.

So instead of replacing it, we took it down, and my husband decid…