Can you help me summarize this article in 2 paragraphs?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/garden/03recycle.html
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This article is about a man named Dan Phillips that builds low income, but yet attractive housing out of salvaged items. He builds his houses in Huntsville, Texas. He is currently still building houses and he started in Huntsville, Texas. Phillips started building houses to provide affordable homes for low income people and was also disturbed by landfills being filled with building materials and the lack of affordable housing. Dan Phillips is 64 years old and has been building for 12 years.
This is a good start. Here are a few uggestions --
This article is about a man named Dan Phillips who builds low income, but yet attractive housing out of salvaged items. He builds his houses in Huntsville, Texas. (I deleted the next sentence as redundant.
At this point, I suggest you describe some of the materials he uses.
Phillips started building houses to provide affordable homes for low income people. He was also disturbed by landfills being filled with building materials and the lack of affordable housing. Dan Phillips is 64 years old and has been building for 12 years.
Should I explain some of his customer reviews or describe the way he builds the houss or would that be redundant?
I didn't see much in the way of customer reviews, but I suggest you describe the way he builds houses.
I used some of your suggestions and came up with this.
This article is about a man named Dan Phillips who builds low income, but yet attractive housing out of salvaged items. He builds his houses in Huntsville, Texas. He is currently still building houses and he started in Huntsville, Texas. Dan Phillips uses materials such as corks, shattered mirrors, bottle butts, old DVD’s and even cattle bones. He uses broken materials and other things and puts them together in a certain way making them look very attractive. Some examples are, cork flooring, bottoms of wine bottles serving as stained glass and, arranging frame corners in a zigzag pattern in order to form a ceiling.
Phillips started building houses to provide affordable homes for low income people. He was also disturbed by landfills being filled with building materials and the lack of affordable housing. Dan Phillips is 64 years old and has been building for 12 years.
Good!
I'd combine the second and third sentences --
He started building houses 12 years ago and is still building them in Huntsville, Texas.
You might also want to include using license plates for roofing.
For the last paragraph, you can include his age somewhere else and delete the last sentence. You might also include his previous occupations and his comment about liking to build houses.
This article is about a man named Dan Phillips who builds low income, but yet attractive housing out of salvaged items. He builds his houses in Huntsville, Texas. He is currently still building houses and he started in Huntsville, Texas. Dan Phillips uses materials such as corks, shattered mirrors, bottle butts, old DVD’s and even cattle bones. He uses broken materials and other things and puts them together in a certain way making them look very attractive. Some examples are, cork flooring, bottoms of wine bottles serving as stained glass, license plates for roofing, and, arranging frame corners in a zigzag pattern in order to form a ceiling.
Phillips started building houses to provide affordable homes for low income people. He was also disturbed by landfills being filled with building materials and the lack of affordable housing. Dan Phillips is 64 years old and has been building house for 12 years, and is still building them in Huntsville, Texas. He used to be an intelligence officer in the Army, a college dance instructor, an antiques dealer and a syndicated cryptogram puzzle maker. Dan Phillips is the kind of person who uses what he can get his hands on.