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Home Design Ideas for Dog Owners
Whether your dog is a Pomeranian compact enough to carry in a tote bag all over town or a towering golden retriever who commands a larger footprint, the pooch deserves their own space at your home—an indoor area where they have free domain. There are numerous creative ways for dog owners to carve out a space that’s dedicated to their pets and still stylish, said Jason Nixon, an interior designer who is the co-founder of the Thomasville, North Carolina-based home décor brand and design firm Madcap Cottage. What that means depends on what your home is like—apartment living, for example, means an approach that’s different from one in a single-family…
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Advice from a longtime real-estate agent: ‘Owners are moaners, and buyers are liars’
This article is reprinted by permission from The Escape Home, a newsletter for second homeowners and those who want to be. Subscribe here. © 2022. All rights reserved. The longtime real-estate agent snickered when I asked her to look back on her career and her clients. She said she had learned something that all agents soon come to recognize: “Owners are moaners, and buyers are liars.” Would she be willing to expand on that? Oh, yes, she’ll dish, provided I do not print her name here. She is mostly out of the game — she has announced her retirement several times but keeps getting “just one more last deal” that…
