By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
During our recent discussion about fake plants and ivy, in which you overwhelmingly voted against it, I mentioned that my parents are moving into a model home that is filled with the fake stuff.
The builder is leaving everything in it for them: the furniture, the artwork, props like reading glasses, and lots [...]
Lately there’s been a debate raging around the blogosphere, and I think it’s time to settle the issue once and for all:
Is it okay to decorate the tops of kitchen cabinets with fake ivy, or is it an unforgivable decorating faux pas?
The Nester devoted an entire week to talking about fake plants and their [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
Real homes are to model houses what we normal women are to fashion models. Supermodel Cindy Crawford famously admitted, “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. I have fat days, ugly days, blimp days, days that I just feel terrible about myself. I don’t want to have to be beautiful all the [...]
I recently had a chance to talk to Daniel McGinn, author of the hugely entertaining new book House Lust. Listen in on our conversation to hear what he has to say about the future of McMansions (like the one pictured above in Potomac View, Maryland, that he writes about), the phenomenon of “new-house” lust that causes buyers to spurn “used [...]
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