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Category: Design
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Inside New Canaan’s the Glass House
By Kirsten Reoch, Glass House’s Fourth Executive Director Since becoming Executive Director of The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in late 2023, my central goal has been to expand our audience through new educational and curatorial programs and to deepen our community engagement. We are working to open our…
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Simple Ideas for Holiday Decor
The idea of putting on your buffalo check cap and chopping down your tree at a Christmas tree farm is a romantic notion that often gets put aside in a busy season. There’s also the reality of hauling the tree home and the constant maintenance of fallen pine needles. This can sour the experience like…
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Get Out the Wheelbarrows and Start Stacking Pumpkins: It’s Fall Porch Season!
Move over Christmas with your blinking lights and inflatable snowmen, outdoor fall porch and decor have never looked better. If there’s a fall elf under Santa’s employment, she’s been doing a great job. What was once a perfunctory walk in our neighborhood has now become a fall spectacle. And it’s not just pumpkins, there are…
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Ode to the Yellow Bedroom
When you decorate with the color wheel’s version of Reese Witherspoon, you want to find ways to tone it down while preserving its optimism. Such was the case when designing a yellow-themed guest bedroom. Color palette A white-painted room allows for the statement color and accents to stand out. When selecting the yellow shade, we…
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Home Update in a Month? Fear Not!
Six weeks to plan a holiday event, update the dining room, maybe even organize a wedding can be done with limited nail-biting moments if you’re organized. But an entire home update, including two bathrooms? Follow these no-fail steps we used when renovating our house for the summer season with limited stress and stylish results.
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Bathroom Renovation Tips for a Seamless Experience
After years of traveling back two decades each time our family used the master bathroom, it was time to address its needed update. Why the delay? We’ve been undergoing a series of renovations for the past year and living with construction makes a quiet morning reviewing emails over tea a luxury. Undergoing a bathroom renovation…
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Make Visitors Feel Like They Just Checked In with a Guest Bedroom Sanctuary
Good news for the host who enjoys having overnight guests, this season your guest bedroom can be used for more than a place to store the Peloton. As entertaining at home ramps up, it’s the ideal time to give your spare bedroom special treatment. Let a hotel room be your guide, where all needs for…
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Fall Checklist Before Halloween
It’s the two week countdown to Halloween, which also means fa la las will be taking over the airwaves. No pressure, but with a few weekends left to fall’s unofficial end, celebrate the season by making a checklist so you can capitalize on autumn.
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Making an Entrance with a Versatile Bench
Create an entrance with the right furnishing for your entryway. A custom made bench from Etsy delivers the right balance of function and design.