Tag: HGTV
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Designers Designing Designer Digs
For those who are unfamiliar with the concept of a design house, a very expensive estate in Pasadena is overrun by something like 75 “Designers”. Each designer and their minions get a room (like you haven’t heard that one before) to “design”. Thus begins a brutal contest of one-upmanship to see who can fit the…
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What We Gain(es)
I saw the Magnolia Magazine in the Market. In it, Joanna Gaines is standing in an old barn-like building with bare wood walls and studs (but not her husband Chip). She is wearing work clothes and heavy boots. Standing in the light from the doorway, she is staring off at some point unknown, meaningfully. What…
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That Shiplap Has Sailed
With all of this “work at home” stuff, I am getting to see a lot of my co-workers homes (we need a new term—home-work is for students, not adults). This is not a complaint. It is actually fairly refreshing to see folks in their open-concept workstations, by which I mean their living rooms, guest rooms…
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