Complimentary Tickets HERE Please enjoy The Architectural Digest Home Design Show and visit us at Booth No. 168March 17-20, 2011 Pier 94, Booth 168 55th Street at West Side Highway • New York City archdigesthomeshow.com TO RECEIVE your complimentary tickets ONLINE. Instructions: 1) Click on “Complimentary Tickets” 2) Fill out the “Customer Information Form” and
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Like everyone, I am out there trying to look over the horizon. Have any of you seen the Ben Affleck movie “Paycheck?” It largely derives from a highly improbable plot, where Ben Affleck, young engineer MIT-type genius, is hired to reverse engineer a machine to see the future. Of course, his memory is erased after
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Once again, my favorite Professional Organizer, Maeve Richmond gives us some timely tips. Properly themed for Spring! I asked her to solve our need for ever-expanding square footage- of course, usually the walls are closing in, not the other way around. Specifically- what’s the best way to rotate your closet for Spring? She had some
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Did any of you watch the Grammys? Were you as disappointed as I was at the Madonna lookalike and soundalike Lady Gaga performance? What really had me jumping up and down mad wasn’t Usher trying to steal Justin Bieber’s spotlight, but that Lady Antebellum stole those Grammys from Cee-Lo Green. My test of a hit
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Valentine’s Day has come and gone, yet my love affair with NYC real estate continues. I like to poke fun at Hallmark, but you have to hand it to them- they created an industry which promotes our showing how much we care about each other. So that’s not too bad. Right after our January newsletter,
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Each month The Practical Home features things you can do yourself for your home. As we go through our business day, we come across ideas that push the boundaries of DIY. This month we are beta-testing an art feature, courtesy of my friend, founder and Art Director, Jennifer Wallace of nAscent Art. Often, the bar
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Organizing expert Maeve Richmond (On Twitter: @Cluttergirl) of GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER weighs in on Valentine’s Day. She writes, “Let’s celebrate the beauty of your home.” If it’s a time to love, let’s love your home. She tells me “Look Beyond The Mess.” Every home has something to love. Look beyond perceived household messes
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The stock market starts to move up, the mortgage rates start to move up. Not exactly in lockstep, but that was what mortgage brokers were telling me at the end of the year. I was not to worry about rates going too high in 2011, as the Fed was taking steps to keep rates down.
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We’re well into Valentine’s Month! The marketing started just after the Christmas trees were taken down. You’re definitely getting mixes messages in your media. On one hand, messages about eating healthy, losing weight, saving for say, apartments. On the other hand, eating candy, going out for huge Valentine’s meals, and spending lots of money on
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My friends in other cities such as Denver told me in late October how they were inundated with commercials for the November 2010 elections. They couldn’t turn on the television without seeing one candidate bash his/her opponent. New Yorkers rarely have the pleasure/displeasure of these commercials on a state-wide scale. All of our competitive races
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