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Tour a Tudor-Style Austin Home That Aims to Surprise | Architectural Digest
Decorating a new property ordinarily success in an unlimited list of questions. But for lots of, a important challenge is getting the appropriate pieces of artwork for just about every and every home. For a single art collector few in Austin, who worked with Mark Ashby Style on their five-bed room and four-and-a-50 % rest room Tudor-design abode, that proved specially accurate. “Whenever we have attempted to obtain a piece for a room, it by no means goes in that meant place, for whichever reason,” explains the spouse, who’s been amassing in earnest with her husband for 10 decades. “That’s been the enjoyable aspect of it: 1 piece could get…
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Tour a Colonial Williamsburg Home Designed by Heather Chadduck Hillegas
The initially time I walked in, I felt at house, as if I was generally intended to beautify this residence. I like outdated houses—I grew up in 1 developed in the 1830s, which is previous, but not as aged as the Nelson-Galt Dwelling, circa 1695. I pinch myself that this is the place my husband and I get to reside for two a long time, thanks to the amazing option to serve as the Williamsburg Designer in Residence. Being invited, and reliable, to reimagine and decorate 1 of the nation’s oldest body properties is certainly the coolest task I’ve at any time been section of, primarily because it is been…
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Tour Park House, Melbourne, by Mim Design, Pleysier Perkins
Park Dwelling, once a Presbyterian manse, was developed in 1856 in the Williamstown region of Melbourne. 1 of city’s oldest surviving properties, it is suitably established and rugged, modest and squat. Neighborhood architecture company Pleysier Perkins was billed by the house’s new entrepreneurs with its sensitive restoration and discovering area for a discreet but significant and indulgence-friendly extension. The architects drew up ideas for a mild-crammed, a few-story (a person underground) concrete box, housing additional bedrooms, living spaces, a wine cellar, a curing room, a health club, and a kitchen area in shape and huge plenty of for fewer parsimonious preparations, all largely concealed powering the two-storey blue stone initial…
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Tour a Hairstylist’s Color-Filled Milwaukee Home
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. When longtime hairstylist Marcel Dagenais (he has worked on such shows as Broad City and most recently with Natasha Lyonne on Russian Doll) and his partner, Ben, bought their home in Milwaukee in 2020, Marcel wanted to start with a blank slate. So he set out to paint their circa-1946 red-brick house white. “I was blissfully unaware of what I was about to get into,” he says. After hours researching the best products (he went with Romabio, a lime-based masonry paint that absorbs into the brick and can last up to 20 years), he…
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Tour a Modern Downtown Manhattan Home With French Flair
Perched on an impossibly high floor in Downtown Manhattan, with rows of enormous windows facing east, south, and west, Kay Olivia and Ryan Jackson’s duplex overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge, the World Trade Center, and the Statue of Liberty. As far as views go, it doesn’t get more New York than that. And yet the apartment’s interior, in a very modern and abstract way, calls to mind a Parisian address, what with its enfilade of reception rooms, floors covered in herringbone parquetry, and ecru stone mantelpiece anchoring the central salon, which is furnished with eclectic sofas in beige hues. “We got married in Paris, so we wanted to bring a little bit of…
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Eclectic West U home opens doors for new design and architectural tour
With a limited number of shopping days until Christmas, Houston is in full holiday swing. That means plenty of holiday-themed events around town (check out our list here) and fun for the family (we also have a roundup here). This weekend sees celebrations of solstice, time-honored faith traditions, and the spectacle of The Nutcracker at Houston Ballet. Plenty of art offerings will be showcased around town, Sunday becomes Funday at favorite brewery, and movie night at the MFAH means it’s time to “shut yo’ mouth” and watch a cool private eye. Enjoy; here are you best bets for the weekend. Thursday, December 15 Fresh Arts presents FRESHtivus In the spirit…