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Buyers Turning To Apps For Home Shopping

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Mack.

Phone apps are changing the game in many industries – including the housing segments.
Just in time for the spring house-hunting season, smart-phone applications that provide information to home buyers are proliferating. Real-estate firms have long vied to have the most engaging Web site to attract people searching for homes. Now they also feel compelled to [...]

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Sub-Zero and Wolf Kitchen Appliances Featured in HGTV’s 2010 Dream Home

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Sub-Zero, Inc. and Wolf Appliance, Inc., industry leaders in premium refrigeration, wine storage, and cooking equipment, are pleased to have their products selected as the exclusive kitchen appliances for HGTV’s 2010 Dream Home. Located in Sandia Park, New Mexico, the HGTV Dream Home Kitchen showcases the latest in kitchen design and innovative kitchen appliances.

Each year, [...]

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Flaming Lips House

Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Wayne Coyne, frontman of the acclaimed rock band The Flaming Lips, recently renovated his Oklahoma compound, and the new space gives the group’s music a run for its money in terms of psychedelic flair, playful construction, and sheer imagination.
This appropriately quirky residence and music studio is as free thinking and boundary pushing as the art [...]

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The Bathroom Reinvented

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

In the first video of a two-part series, New York based firm Smart Design examines the intersection between Universal Design principles and the limitations of public bathrooms.

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An infrared sauna: Luxury at a price you can relax with

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Mack.

A sauna. Because you’re worth it.
Lyme disease left Kathy Fowler’s hands so stiff that she couldn’t type. She couldn’t remember simple directions. Intravenous antibiotics helped, but Fowler, a health reporter for WJLA (Channel 7), wanted to explore alternative treatments as well. So she bought a sauna. “It is an amazing tool. I felt better in [...]

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Donna Karan’s Modern Classics Bedding Collection

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Mack.

Nice look at the new Donna Karan Bedding Collection.
Donna Karan: The name and brand synonymous with the New York Woman. The Donna Karan empire spans the globe and has changed the way women dress and accessorize themselves. Now, the brand’s reach has expanded into the woman’s home with the Modern Classics home collection. All the [...]

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HGTV 2010 Dream Home Kitchen Tour

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Patrick.

Each year, Home & Garden Television challenges itself to raise the bar for the upcoming Dream Home. The location, the surroundings and the home style are all expected to be increasingly more inviting and spectacular. And in choosing refrigeration, wine and cooking products, HGTV chooses the best.
“When you’re looking for the best appliances to [...]

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Macallan Linley whiskey cabinet is pure luxury

Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by Mack.

We love this Macallan Whiskey cabinet from Harrods.
Writers have pushed their pencils time and again to highlight the enviable distinction earned by the Macallan Single Malts among their peers. Recently, Macallan unveiled an exquisite whisky cabinet handcrafted from English Burr Oak, by Viscount Linley. It contains six bottles of vintage Macallan malt whiskey from 1937, [...]

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Home Design: Brass Section

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Mack.

LA-based SylvanSF bring some brass to the home design segment.
Since 2002, the Los Angeles-based SylvanSF has employed painstaking craftsmanship, high-quality base materials, and precious veneers (parchment, lacquers, exotic woods, shagreen) to produce exquisite heirloom furniture. Designed by Sylvan Fiss in collaboration with Jaime Sanchez and Paul Eduard Sweeney Perez, the company’s latest experimentation has [...]

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The Wolf Cinema video projectors

Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Mack.

If you’re looking for an amazing home cinema system – and have $85,000 to spend on it – look no further than the amazing Wolf Cinema projector.
Wolf Cinema builds video projectors exclusively for high-end custom home theaters. The $85,000 DCX-1000i occupies the middle position in the company’s line of three projectors. Its 1,000-watt xenon lamp [...]

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No stone unturned

Posted on 27. Dec, 2009 by Mack.

The NY Times profiles Jeffrey Bale, the garden guru of the West Coast, who use of elaborate mosaics with sustainable landscape designs is turning heads.
WITH his goatee, multiple ear piercings and ice-blue eyes, Jeffrey Bale has become something of a garden guru on the West Coast, advocating sustainable yet sumptuous landscape design with elaborate [...]

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3 Consumer Items You Should Own

Posted on 26. Dec, 2009 by Mack.

Forbes gives us some things you should have in your home. We love the home server.
A few things you should have on your shopping list, because soon, everyone’s going to be flaunting them. – From Forbes

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A visit to Skywalker Ranch

Posted on 12. Dec, 2009 by Patrick.

So why were we shooting with these cameras and why is Lucasfilm’s producer Rick McCallum interested in them? First off Lucasfilm has been at the forefront of digital technology. They were instrumental in getting a 24p Sony HD camera to use for some shots in Episode 1 of Star Wars and shot episode 2 & [...]

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