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		<title>Precious moments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dining room sets, granite countertops, stainless-steel refrigerators. Such pieces once were affiliated with interior home design. That&#8217;s all starting to change as more homeowners are expanding their patios and taking their living spaces outside. It&#8217;s a chance to kick back and enjoy Minnesota&#8217;s warm, sunny days as much as possible. &#8220;The season is so short that when the weather&#8217;s nice, we like to be outside as long as we can,&#8221; said a Little Canada homeowner who recently added a kitchen, dining room and lounge area to her back yard. &#8220;We have a really large family, so when we have them over we can fit everyone outside now.&#8221; And thanks to changes in the patio design world, materials for outdoor furniture have become more weatherproof and durable. As a result, homeowners are willing to invest in al fresco living knowing they can count on their furniture to last for years to come. &#8220;As long as you get items that are good quality, you&#8217;re fine leaving furniture out even when it rains,&#8221; says Joni Slack of jk designs, who designed the Little Canada back yard. For that home, Slack divided the back yard into three spaces. A kitchen area included a granite countertop island. Stainless-steel appliances were installed including a grill, stovetop, refrigerator and sink from Warners&#8217; Stellian. A dining room area was outfitted with a cement table and candelabra from Restoration Hardware. A lounge space included a chair from Frontgate furniture and fire pit from Restoration Hardware. Although today&#8217;s patio pieces are better equipped to endure harsh weather, Slack says investing in covers for the appliances and upholstered furniture still is a good idea. The protective covers help items last longer and can eliminate drying time after it rains. With the increased popularity of outdoor living spaces comes a scramble for shops to accommodate customers&#8217; needs. Besides selling pool tables and bar furniture at Peters Billiards in Minneapolis, owner Joe Peterson added patio pieces five years ago. The move has paid off. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen our patio business quadruple since we first started,&#8221; he says. At Golden Valley-based Room Board, outdoor pieces have been in such high demand that in addition to offering lounge and dining sets, the home store recently added fireplaces. &#8220;It was a response to what our customers were saying they wanted,&#8221; said Kelly Davis, manager at the store&#8217;s Edina branch. Article source: http://www.twincities.com/homeandgarden/ci_20648303/precious-moments?source=rss]]></description>
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		<title>BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Yardley Borough&#039;s Fernish specializing in ageless home goods</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sue Scheiring, a collector, and Amy Mink, an interior decorator, are co-owners of a new business, Fernish Vintage Home Goods, which is located on the second story of a renovated hay barn in Yardley Borough. (Photo by Petra Chesner Schlatter) View and purchase photos Article source: http://www.buckslocalnews.com/articles/2012/05/20/yardley_news/news/doc4fb3bd6175d33973834822.txt]]></description>
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		<title>Car crashes into Overbrook home, damages interior, retaining wall</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A car crashed into a home and cement wall causing damage to the inside of the house. A car veered off the 1500 block of Ballinger Street in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Overbrook neighborhood, driving through a yard then into the interior of a home and cement wall. Officials said the car was partially on top of the wall and the car&#8217;s hood was against the house. A neighbor said the driver was conscious and alert when they were taken from the scene by ambulance to a nearby hospital. Stay with Channel 11 News and WPXI.com as details continue to develop. Article source: http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/car-crashes-overbrook-home-damages-interior-retain/nN9Qt/]]></description>
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		<title>Nautical, beach themes can make home feel like a vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;!&#8211;Saxotech Paragraph Count: 10&#8211;&#62; BALTIMORE — With so many home mortgages underwater, perhaps it&#8217;s little wonder that interior designers have found inspiration in the murky depths of the sea. Let&#8217;s call it turning a negative into a positive. The rustic, woodsy themes of the fall and winter have given way to crisp, blue nautical themes that are expected to dominate home decor for the next few months at national retail outlets like Target as well as small chains and locally owned shops. “Nautical is super-trendy right now,” said Gary Godby, a manager at Trohv, a home store with locations in Baltimore&#8217;s Hampden neighborhood, and Washington, D.C. “It&#8217;s gotten super-popular. It&#8217;s cute. It makes people anticipate the warm weather a little more.” At a recent home furnishings trade show in Atlanta, he was struck by all of the water-inspired decor items, including throw pillows adorned by underwater creatures and accent pieces decorated with shells, rope and other objects associated with the sea. Godby said he knew he could have fun with the latest trend, starting with something as simple as a fresh coat of paint. Godby said colors such as light blue, gray and other “beachier colors” are the way to go. “It&#8217;s the easiest way to change a room,” he said. You can commit all the way and transform your room into a sea-inspired getaway. Or you can take a more conservative approach and scatter a few nautical items about. Stebbins Anderson in Towson, Md., has gone hook, line and sinker for the trend. The showroom is filled with nautical finds, including seashell lamps and elaborate living room setups that look right out of an issue of Coastal Living. “We&#8217;re really doing well with it,” said Liz Roberts, buyer for Stebbins Anderson, adding that the nautical trend has been a few years in the making for the home-furnishings and hardware store. “It&#8217;s kind of an evolving category for us,” she said. “This year, we saw it more than normal. Because of the popularity of the Maryland crab, we set up a display area and kept it.” Article source: http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120519/LIFESTYLES11/205190311/Nautical-beach-themes-can-make-home-feel-like-vacation?odyssey=nav%7Chead]]></description>
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		<title>Nautical, beach themes can make home feel like a vacation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;!&#8211;Saxotech Paragraph Count: 10&#8211;&#62; BALTIMORE — With so many home mortgages underwater, perhaps it&#8217;s little wonder that interior designers have found inspiration in the murky depths of the sea. Let&#8217;s call it turning a negative into a positive. The rustic, woodsy themes of the fall and winter have given way to crisp, blue nautical themes that are expected to dominate home decor for the next few months at national retail outlets like Target as well as small chains and locally owned shops. “Nautical is super-trendy right now,” said Gary Godby, a manager at Trohv, a home store with locations in Baltimore&#8217;s Hampden neighborhood, and Washington, D.C. “It&#8217;s gotten super-popular. It&#8217;s cute. It makes people anticipate the warm weather a little more.” At a recent home furnishings trade show in Atlanta, he was struck by all of the water-inspired decor items, including throw pillows adorned by underwater creatures and accent pieces decorated with shells, rope and other objects associated with the sea. Godby said he knew he could have fun with the latest trend, starting with something as simple as a fresh coat of paint. Godby said colors such as light blue, gray and other “beachier colors” are the way to go. “It&#8217;s the easiest way to change a room,” he said. You can commit all the way and transform your room into a sea-inspired getaway. Or you can take a more conservative approach and scatter a few nautical items about. Stebbins Anderson in Towson, Md., has gone hook, line and sinker for the trend. The showroom is filled with nautical finds, including seashell lamps and elaborate living room setups that look right out of an issue of Coastal Living. “We&#8217;re really doing well with it,” said Liz Roberts, buyer for Stebbins Anderson, adding that the nautical trend has been a few years in the making for the home-furnishings and hardware store. “It&#8217;s kind of an evolving category for us,” she said. “This year, we saw it more than normal. Because of the popularity of the Maryland crab, we set up a display area and kept it.” Article source: http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120519/LIFESTYLES11/205190311/Nautical-beach-themes-can-make-home-feel-like-vacation?odyssey=nav%7Chead]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara D’Arcy White, Interior Design Guru, Dies at 84</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her death was confirmed by her husband, Kirk White. Ms. D’Arcy, as she was known professionally, made an early mark as the chief decorator of the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale’s flagship store at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Those rooms, usually seven or eight roped-off areas on the fifth floor, became a mecca in the 1950s for those who aspired to learn what was stylish, sophisticated, well-made but not too expensive in a living room set or a window treatment. From 1958 until 1973 she designed hundreds of model rooms. Each was like a stage vignette, with the decorating trend of the moment its star: sleek Danish teak and rosewood living rooms in the 1950s; rooms painted pink, outfitted with inflatable orange furniture and shag rugs in the 1960s; brightly tiled Valencian kitchens in the 1970s; and rooms in rattan, wicker and cane in every decade. “I would go through the rooms we were doing at the time and dream up personalities, to be able to develop a room’s personality around a kind of person — say, ‘I think this would be a perfect setting for Ernest Hemingway,’ ” Ms. D’Arcy said in a 1986 oral history interview for the Fashion Institute of Technology Archives, describing how she came up with her ideas. But no matter how fanciful the creative process, she said in another interview, in 1978, the goal was always solidly commercial — “to present things so that people see something and feel that they can’t live without it.” Ms. D’Arcy was credited with creating or popularizing several styles that still resonate in the American home, including steel and glass furnishings, plaid curtains for children’s rooms, and what she called the Country Fresh look, consisting of faux antiques and cozy clutter. In the ’50s and ’60s she gave the color orange — her favorite, she said — one of its early moments in the high-style spotlight. “If European-accented country furniture and glass and steel tables have become national decorative clichés,” Marylin Bender wrote in The New York Times in 1974, “it is because Barbara D’Arcy pioneered and pushed them in her lavish model room settings in the ’60s.” Ms. D’Arcy, who became a merchandising executive in 1975, traveled in Europe and Asia as part of a Bloomingdale’s team of design scouts. She was among the first Americans to visit the People’s Republic of China on business after its relations with the United States were normalized in 1972. When she found a piece of furniture or an object she liked — she and others sometimes bribed museum guards to let them carry historic pieces of furniture into a courtyard for better light in sketching, photographing and measuring them — she arranged for it to be reproduced, usually by Italian manufacturers. “She and I visited furniture factories in Italy, where she would have to teach them to make a piece of furniture that looked old instead of new, how to stress it,” Marvin Traub, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara D’Arcy White, Interior Design Guru, Dies at 84</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her death was confirmed by her husband, Kirk White. Ms. D’Arcy, as she was known professionally, made an early mark as the chief decorator of the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale’s flagship store at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Those rooms, usually seven or eight roped-off areas on the fifth floor, became a mecca in the 1950s for those who aspired to learn what was stylish, sophisticated, well-made but not too expensive in a living room set or a window treatment. From 1958 until 1973 she designed hundreds of model rooms. Each was like a stage vignette, with the decorating trend of the moment its star: sleek Danish teak and rosewood living rooms in the 1950s; rooms painted pink, outfitted with inflatable orange furniture and shag rugs in the 1960s; brightly tiled Valencian kitchens in the 1970s; and rooms in rattan, wicker and cane in every decade. “I would go through the rooms we were doing at the time and dream up personalities, to be able to develop a room’s personality around a kind of person — say, ‘I think this would be a perfect setting for Ernest Hemingway,’ ” Ms. D’Arcy said in a 1986 oral history interview for the Fashion Institute of Technology Archives, describing how she came up with her ideas. But no matter how fanciful the creative process, she said in another interview, in 1978, the goal was always solidly commercial — “to present things so that people see something and feel that they can’t live without it.” Ms. D’Arcy was credited with creating or popularizing several styles that still resonate in the American home, including steel and glass furnishings, plaid curtains for children’s rooms, and what she called the Country Fresh look, consisting of faux antiques and cozy clutter. In the ’50s and ’60s she gave the color orange — her favorite, she said — one of its early moments in the high-style spotlight. “If European-accented country furniture and glass and steel tables have become national decorative clichés,” Marylin Bender wrote in The New York Times in 1974, “it is because Barbara D’Arcy pioneered and pushed them in her lavish model room settings in the ’60s.” Ms. D’Arcy, who became a merchandising executive in 1975, traveled in Europe and Asia as part of a Bloomingdale’s team of design scouts. She was among the first Americans to visit the People’s Republic of China on business after its relations with the United States were normalized in 1972. When she found a piece of furniture or an object she liked — she and others sometimes bribed museum guards to let them carry historic pieces of furniture into a courtyard for better light in sketching, photographing and measuring them — she arranged for it to be reproduced, usually by Italian manufacturers. “She and I visited furniture factories in Italy, where she would have to teach them to make a piece of furniture that looked old instead of new, how to stress it,” Marvin Traub, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Market: Inside the Home of Celebrity Interior Designer Jeff Andrews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to view the full photogallery. Jeff Andrews, the Los Angeles-based interior designer who counts Michael C. Hall, America Ferrera, and the Kardashians among his clients, has put his 1924 Spanish-style property on the market for $549K. Featured a few years ago in Elle Decor, the 1,600-square-foot two-bedroom is painted in dark colors—it &#8220;has no boundaries to it; it&#8217;s less space-defining, which makes a room appear larger&#8221;—and has cove ceilings, wrought-iron railings, a 27-foot-long living room, a bathroom remodeled by Andrews himself, an eat-in kitchen with a vintage Wedgewood range, wood and concrete-slab floors, and views over the treetops of the lush, hilly Mt. Washington neighborhood. The cute, charming home is a far cry from the glitzier projects of Andrews&#8217; A-list clientele: next up, perhaps, is Ryan Seacrest&#8217;s new compound? · Celebrity Decorator Jeff Andrews Selling in Mt Washington [Curbed LA] · 354 West Avenue 42 [Redfin] · All Jeff Andrews coverage [Curbed National] · Small Changes, Big Impact [Elle Decor] Article source: http://curbed.com/archives/2012/05/18/inside-the-home-of-celebrity-interior-designer-jeff-andrews.php]]></description>
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		<title>On the Market: Inside the Home of Celebrity Interior Designer Jeff Andrews</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to view the full photogallery. Jeff Andrews, the Los Angeles-based interior designer who counts Michael C. Hall, America Ferrera, and the Kardashians among his clients, has put his 1924 Spanish-style property on the market for $549K. Featured a few years ago in Elle Decor, the 1,600-square-foot two-bedroom is painted in dark colors—it &#8220;has no boundaries to it; it&#8217;s less space-defining, which makes a room appear larger&#8221;—and has cove ceilings, wrought-iron railings, a 27-foot-long living room, a bathroom remodeled by Andrews himself, an eat-in kitchen with a vintage Wedgewood range, wood and concrete-slab floors, and views over the treetops of the lush, hilly Mt. Washington neighborhood. The cute, charming home is a far cry from the glitzier projects of Andrews&#8217; A-list clientele: next up, perhaps, is Ryan Seacrest&#8217;s new compound? · Celebrity Decorator Jeff Andrews Selling in Mt Washington [Curbed LA] · 354 West Avenue 42 [Redfin] · All Jeff Andrews coverage [Curbed National] · Small Changes, Big Impact [Elle Decor] Article source: http://curbed.com/archives/2012/05/18/inside-the-home-of-celebrity-interior-designer-jeff-andrews.php]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#039;Home&#039; by Toni Morrison feels distant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home A Novel Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24 I&#8217;ve long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — &#8220;Song of Solomon&#8221; (1977), &#8220;Beloved&#8221; (1987) and 2008&#8242;s &#8220;A Mercy&#8221; — are masterpieces, yet the others, particularly the post-Nobel books &#8220;Paradise&#8221; (1997) and &#8220;Love&#8221; (2003) can be so stylized as to veer dangerously close to self-parody. Anyone who&#8217;s read her in any depth may understand what I&#8217;m referring to: those stentorian rhythms, the biblical cadences, the characters who function more as archetypes than flesh-and-blood. I say this not to minimize her achievements — three masterpieces in a lifetime are three more than most authors produce. Still, more often than not, her stature (the most recent American Nobel literature laureate, she was named last week as one of 13 recipients of this year&#8217;s Presidential Medal of Freedom) prevents us from seeing her as a writer, which is to say as fallible, prone as all writers are to the excitations and limitations of, in Faulkner&#8217;s famous phrase, her &#8220;own little postage stamp of native soil.&#8221; Morrison&#8217;s 10th novel, &#8220;Home,&#8221; highlights this issue; it is a thin book with some beautiful writing that ultimately comes off as insubstantial and contrived. The story of Frank Money, a black Korean War vet on his way back to Georgia, &#8220;Home&#8221; refracts the early 1950s through an individual filter, although the most striking thing about the novel may be how little it succeeds in drawing us in. Frank is an angry man, an outsider inclined to violence, a drinker and a brawler who watched his two best friends die in the war. As the book begins, he is in a hospital mental ward, bound to a bed, contemplating his escape, although when escape finally comes, it is so easy, effortless almost, that we wonder how it could have ever been in doubt. This lack of narrative tension recurs throughout &#8220;Home&#8221; as Frank makes his way to Chicago and then south, toward his hometown of Lotus, &#8220;the worst place in the world, worse than any battlefield. At least on the field there is a goal, excitement, daring, and some chance of winning along with many chances of losing.… In Lotus … there was no future, just long stretches of killing time. There was no goal other than breathing, nothing to win and, save for somebody else&#8217;s quiet death, nothing to survive or worth surviving for.&#8221; The irony is that Lotus is the only place he can take his sister Cee, near death in a suburb of Atlanta. She is the one person about whom he cares, the beacon that pulls him onward, the lodestar for the journey, both interior and exterior, that gives shape to this book. There&#8217;s a certain Old Testament-style simplicity to such a story, with its archetypal concerns: home, family, belonging, exile. These are themes to which Morrison has returned throughout her career, but here they don&#8217;t challenge so much as they confirm. [...]]]></description>
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