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13 Features From Historic Homes That Don’t Exist Today
As both an interior design editor and a haunted house podcast host, I’m drawn to home features that are equal parts charming and downright odd. And while researching the infamous and historic Lemp Mansion in St. Louis’s Benton Park neighborhood for an episode of our haunted house history podcast, Dark House, I came across tons of fascinating fun facts about common features in old, grand homes. And by “fascinating,” I mean sometimes nostalgic and beautiful, other times, downright creepy or problematic. Once cutting-edge and all-the-rage, these features now tend to be obsolete. But they still very much tell worthwhile stories about the evolution of technology. Ahead, learn about some of…
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Updated home features Spanish design influences
From the exterior to the interior, several updates have been built to this brick ranch situated in just the Rona Hills Estates neighborhood of Butler Twp. Outlined for $268,000 by Corcoran World-wide Living, the Spanish impact ranch at 7521 Glenhurst Drive has about 1,998 square toes of living room. An prolonged exterior wall with an arched opening potential customers to a covered front porch and a courtyard garden patio is surrounded by keystone accents and young rock gardens. A pergola accents the entrance backyard. The backyard is surrounded by a corral fence and has gained some of the identical landscape tending with gravel pathways and hearth pit. A lately mounted…
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Houzz Adds New Bathroom Features to Houzz Pro 3D Floor Planner
Houzz Inc, the leading home remodeling and design platform, today introduced new 3D Floor Plan bathroom features within Houzz Pro, the all-in-one business management and marketing software for residential construction and design professionals. Pros can now choose from an even wider selection of bathroom products, such as vanities, showers, sinks and bathtubs to include in their 3D Floor Plans. Using the tool, they can further customize the design by changing the product size, colors and finishes, as well as hardware finishes, and by selecting tile from the Houzz Shop to place on standard walls, shower walls and shower floors. The new features empower pros to quickly and easily communicate their…
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Bold color schemes bring original features to life in this historic home
Looking for a way to update their historic home in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the owners decided a glamorous, sexy and elegant look would be the way to go. They wanted to restore and enhance the property’s many original features, and a sympathetic interior décor, with added 2020s sass has transformed this into one of the world’s best homes. Before they could even begin to consider the fine design details, however, there were some major obstacles to overcome – namely stripping away the not very complimentary architectural elements that had been added to the house in the 1940s, 80s and 90s. The main culprit and biggest challenge was the old 1980s…
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Ina Garten’s Iconic Pantry Features a $15 Organizing Hack
Ina Garten, known to fans around the world as the “Barefoot Contessa,” is a master of kitchen decoration and organization. The chef and cookbook author has shared her skills with millions of viewers over the years, astonishing everyone with her unmatched ability to make the most out of any space. Recently, Garten opened up about how she spring-cleans her kitchen and pantry area. In the process, Garten revealed the one product that she used for a pantry update, an affordable $15 staple that can make quick work out of any organization project. Ina Garten recently shared her pantry organization tips Ina Garten | Noam Galai/WireImage Garten might be a wildly…
