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Spring Recipe: The Most Beautiful Easter Cake that can be adapted for...
My son's dessert of choice is cake, so when I recently saw thisEaster-themed recipe from Country Living with three layers of fluffy white cake covered in coconut buttercream frosting, store-bought...
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Designing Life's Celebrations - New York City's Premier Event Designer:...
"It's important to note that making a celebration memorable doesn't have to mean making it formal and fussy... my goal is to create a setting that gives people lasting memories... When you bring...
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Scandinavian Style: A Serene Summer House by Designer Marshall Watson
S W E D I S H S T Y L EGustavian antiques, painted furniture, light filled rooms, a place for family...On an island in an archipelago off the coast of Stockholm, Sweden, American designer Marshall...
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Authentic French Living - Straight To Your Home
There are some who inspire a way of living, designing a life filled with family and friends, where creating and sharing are a way of life... for me the blog My French Country Home by Sharon Santoni is...
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HGTV'S New Hit Show HOME TOWN - Erin and Ben Napier
Erin and Ben Napier with Ben's iconic, vintage 1962 Chevy pickup truck with his Scotsman furniture logo.Sitting on the front porch this afternoon I was trying to decide how to write this blog post....
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Make it Beautiful ... designing a life well lived
I like to write; in pencil it flows easier. I want people to make connections, to feel, be moved to beauty in actions, to see color in clarity and expanse, shadows in personal memories, turning...
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Memorial Day: John Singer Sargent's "Coming of the Americans" and Strawberry...
Memorial Day is Monday, which means Summer is just around the corner. For our family, our flag comes out and stays out until September: BBQ's, watching Baseball games and Confederation Cup soccer,...
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Private Tour: Fabulous Farmhouse, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee by Designer...
Photo: Erica George DinesIn Tennessee, in the heart of the Smoky Mountain foothills, blackberry brambles grow wild, and in 1939 Mrs. Florida Lasier of Chicago snagged her silk stockings on these...
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Time Worn and Lovely - Designer John Derian's 18th Century Home in...
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Serenity • Conservation • Beauty
🍃🍃🌿🌿🌿ON GOLDEN POND 🌿🌿🍃🍃🍃Watching the light dancing on the water ... listening to the rabbits as they crunch and nibble ... a lovely and serene scene as the ducks glide here and there ... I wanted to...
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Living la Dolce Vita - Skye McAlpine's Venice, Italy
With an abundance of flowers, usually pink, and celebratory lunches, or quiet gatherings around the table, Skye McAlpine of @skye_mcalpine allows us to step into her daily life in beautiful Venice,...
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Le Château de Moissac in the South of France & A Personal Video Tour
In the south of France where lavender fields are endless, olives are warmed by the sun, and sheep happily graze, lies the most gorgeous 17th century château, lovingly restored over a 10 year period and...
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A Beautiful Fabric and Wallpaper Collection: Vogue Living Collaboration with...
Vogue Living in collaboration with Schumacher, the storied textile house since 1889, created a new line of fabric and wallpapers to pay homage to some of the great tastemakers whose fashion, interiors,...
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Cotswolds Manor House ... A tangle of pink climbing roses, hedgerows, and...
For novelist Ian McEwan and his wife, journalist and novelist Annalena McAfee, the promise of a country home in an unspoiled setting found them on an eight-year journey in search of a place they could...
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When Summer Begins to Fade ... and The Best Minestrone Soup Recipe
The air is still with the fragrance of dirt and fallen leaves,and the light is dull and flat.The birds are quiet, no singing this morning,I think they're tired after the storm.There is the sound of...
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Couture, Chintz & Whimsy - The Delightfully Pretty Life of Mrs. Alice...
English Rose Alice Naylor-Leyland's fairy-taled world of chintz, coutured frocks, and rose filled conservatory has a panache for adding in whimsy, 'so its not boring'. Naylor-Leyland known as...
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Beth Webb: An Eye for Beauty: Rooms that Speak to the Senses - A Lovely,...
"The design process starts with life - and how we live. There is an art to living well, to elevating the everyday.... What I want above all is for the interiors I create to imbue those who live in...
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French and Swedish Antiques in a Pretty, Renovated 17th century Thatched...
There is a wonderful design trail in social media that continues to unfold and bring new ideas, places to visit, and stores from which to shop. It's the age old adage "One thing (happily) leads to...
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Giannetti Home: A New Store in Santa Barbara and A French Normandy Style...
Linens in lovely shades of watery blues and creams, vintage books, shells, worn woods with soft patinas, rooms perfectly appointed, captured in timeless architecture, redefining beauty... design... the...
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Poetry of Place: The New Architecture and Interiors of McAlpine
Architecture for me is elation, it holds promise, imagination, life - executed in beauty, defined by style and light, holding within its boundaries love. My first introduction to the architecture of...
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