house guest: triple play.
They say—whoever they are—that third time’s the charm, and who are we to disagree? Especially when faced with this classic gem in Paradise Valley, Arizona, whose Mediterranean style...
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Sep 13, 2011
house guest: butterfly effect.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned through the years, it’s that people come to their dream homes in too many different ways to count: sometimes it’s the first home they see...
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Aug 30, 2011
house guest: tropical treat.
What good is a vacation property that doesn’t make you feel like you’re on vacation? Not very good at all, if you ask the owner of this Palm Beach pied-à-terre. “So many of...
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Aug 23, 2011
house guest: sense of discovery.
It’s not unusual for there to come a time when even the thing you love the most starts getting a little tired, for us it normally happens around season 3 of any new show on the CW, but it was a...
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Aug 16, 2011
house guest: cottage industry.
To us, the measure of a successful cottage isn’t just about the roof eaves and the painstaking wood details—although, to be honest, those do top the list. Instead, we find that the more...
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Aug 09, 2011
house guest: color forms.
What do we have in common with the owner of a world-recognized skateboard company? We’ll give you a hint: It’s certainly not our ability to ollie or kickflip. It’s our love for...
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Aug 02, 2011
house guest: fashion sense.
Sometimes you stumble upon a room so sweet that it gets you thinking about what life would be like if it was your room—your well-heeled arches up on the coffee table with your designer-clad...
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Jul 26, 2011
house guest: western front.
One of our favorite things about being a magazine devoted to local design is that we get a taste of it all; what works for an art lover in Chicago probably isn’t what stokes the home fires of a...
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Jul 19, 2011
house guest: mountain dancer.
We still hear, occasionally, from people who aren’t quite sure about contemporary homes. “They’re too cold,” they say. “They feel too institutional,” they say....
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Jul 12, 2011
house guest: fast lane.
If you’ve never stopped to wonder what kind of home a retired oil executive turned amateur racecar driver and new author returns to at the end of each day—really,...
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Jun 28, 2011
house guest: mother knows best.
When I was a child, my mother loved dragging me along to antiques shops. I don’t remember the fateful trips much, but I’m sure about one thing:
It wasn’t fun at the time.
Now,...
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Jun 09, 2011
