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Bend homes among Oregon’s biggest real estate bidding wars | Business
Home shoppers may still find themselves among a pack of people offering the seller’s full asking price or more. In 2022, brokers MJ Steen and Macey Laurick of Windermere Realty Trust had two multimillion-dollar sales that brought in much more than the seller expected. Both were modern in design and move-in ready with city and mountain views in Southwest Portland. Both sold for more than 25% above their $1,995,000 listing price. “We priced both properties in the lower range of where we thought they might sell, with the hope that the market would ultimately dictate what the house was worth,” says Laurick. “Pricing listings correctly will generate an enthusiastic response…
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Boho Home Decor: 4 Homes That Remind Us How Timeless The Style Can Be
London’s Cheyne Stroll provides a sedate streetscape that bears no witness, preserve some blue English Heritage plaques embedded in a variety of façades, to its daredevil historical past. To the redbrick Georgian and Queen Anne homes and condominium properties that line this Thames-facet street in Chelsea, all method of creative iconoclasts considering that the third quarter of the 19th century have gravitated. Querulous painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler bunked right here, as did dandified tastemaker Christopher Gibbs, actor Laurence Olivier, and a several of the Rolling Stones, moreover Marianne Faithfull. “All of Chelsea is a fairy tale for me,” claims Patrick Mele, a young decorator who is primarily based in…
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The Extreme Holiday Decorators Spending Thousands to Deck ‘Every Nook and Cranny’ of Their Homes
Jennifer Houghton clung to the banister in her Dallas mansion. Suspended about 10 feet off the ground, she braced her foot against the wall, extended her arm and placed an oversize pink-and-white ornament atop a spinning Christmas tree festooned with candied pink poinsettias. Below her, a life-size Nutcracker stood sentry in the double-height foyer, which Ms. Houghton, 54, had reimagined as the Land of Sweets, with pastel-colored candy covering the railing and plush ice-cream cones hanging from the chandelier. “Freaking amazing,” she said, satisfied with the finished product. In the kitchen, a candy-cane conveyor belt was perched on the counter. The front yard had been transformed into a Christmas tree farm with more than…
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Details on Singer’s Marvelous Homes Around the World
Audio is just just one of the avenues that contribute to Paul McCartney’s substantial fortune! The “Maybe I’m Amazed” singer has an spectacular actual estate portfolio, shopping for and promoting attributes all over the earth around the training course of his occupation. Get aspects on his recent and former residences by scrolling beneath. The place Does Paul McCartney Dwell? Paul was born and lifted in Liverpool, England, in a home found at 20 Forthlin Road. It was there that he and his Beatles bandmates wrote several of the group’s earliest hits. The residence is now under the ownership of the National Belief. During a June 2018 Carpool Karaoke segment on…
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Inside Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘decadent’ homes
The apartment’s inside was established in the Artwork Deco type by French architect Jean-Michel in the 1920s, reflecting Saint Laurent’s obsession with the Jazz Age, which was also echoed in his all set-to-wear collections of the time. The designer was in thrall then to the streamlined nonetheless luxurious aesthetic of higher-conclusion Art Deco, and the apartment housed Eileen Gray’s Dragon armchair, stools by Pierre Legrain, vases by Jean Dunand, Gustave Miklos’s stools with a red lacquer frame and opulent pieces purchased at a 1972 sale of early 20th-Century couturier Jacques Doucet’s collection of modern art and furnishings. A new reserve, Yves Saint Laurent at Property – Everyday living with Yves…
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Inside Japan’s most minimalist homes
Inside Japan’s most minimalist homes (Image credit: Daica Ano/ Kengo Kuma & Associates) Close to nature and beautifully minimalist, the Zen-like interiors featured in a new book offer a glimpse inside the Japanese mindset. “The home – before it is a place of beauty – is a place for safety, and assessed according to its alignment with its natural surroundings,” says Mihoko Iida, whose new book Japanese Interiors takes a look inside some of Japan’s most interesting private homes. From urban apartments to mountain and seaside escapes, the spaces featured in the book all share this idea of what home interiors mean in Japan, and how they are informed by…
