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Florida group surprises children with decorated hospital rooms
Once Upon A Room Jacksonville turns children’s hospital rooms into their own personalized spaces. JACKSONVILLE, Fla — Families with children in the hospital are going through one of the hardest times in their lives. A Jacksonville nonprofit working to grow is making that time a little bit brighter for families. Once Upon A Room Jacksonville turns children’s hospital rooms into their own personalized spaces. Members of the group surprise families by decorating, or in the time of COVID-19 having hospital staff decorate, with personalized decorations. One mother says she believes it helped her daughter recover faster after surgery. Brittany Lavender’s daughter Kenna is now a year and a half old…
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Laurie Colwin’s Recipe for Being Yourself in the Kitchen
In “Home Cooking,” a collection of essays first published in 1988, Laurie Colwin states one opinion after another, as plainly as boiled potatoes. “Grilling is like sunbathing,” she announces. “Everyone knows it is bad for you but no one ever stops doing it.” Along with outdoor cooking, outdoor dining is out, too: “I do not like to eat al fresco. No sane person does, I feel.” During Colwin’s brief career, and then well beyond it, countless readers and cooks have aspired to her idiosyncratic recipe for sanity and self-reliance. Its ingredients were laid out primarily in her columns for Gourmet (which “Home Cooking” collects), and, if Colwin’s opinions were bluntly…
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Modsy shares results of survey on how home design can affect wellness
SAN FRANCISCO – Modsy, an online interior design service, partnered with a research firm and a social psychologist to learn how home design can affect wellness. The company looked at four design styles: contemporary, country, transitional and maximalist. For people who said their homes had good design, more than 55% said their home made them feel calm, and 53% said the home design made them feel more organized. People with country style in their homes are the most likely of all design styles to feel calm in a well-designed space, followed by those with coastal style. And, 70% of people with rustic elements in their space chose cozy as the…
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Designing An Outdoor Kitchen – Garden Kitchen
Summer may have faded into glorious autumn but create an outdoor kitchen and you can carry on cooking and dining alfresco the whole year round. An outdoor kitchen can be as simple as a BBQ with surrounding units for easy food prep, to a full-scale set-up with a sink, tap, refrigerator and multiple cooking appliances. The joy of a garden kitchen is that you can customise it entirely to your needs, without the worry of designing a ‘normal’ kitchen, such as fitting everything into a limited space with awkward walls. ‘Twenty years ago, people bought a £100 B&Q barbecue and that was the extent of their outdoor entertaining,’ says Ross…
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Real estate ‘unicorn’ Orchard Technologies moving downtown
Orchard Technologies, a newly minted “unicorn” that aims to simplify the home-selling-and-buying process, had its own odyssey finding a new home for its fast-growing business. The outcome: a welcome, 107,000 square-foot boost for the downtown office market. The four-year-old firm was working out of a 25,000-square-foot Knotel flex-space until Knotel went bankrupt early this year. Orchard relocated temporarily to a WeWork location on West 14th Street, but needed much more elbow room for its growing staff. Now, it’s signed a lease on three floors at L&L Holding Company’s 195 Broadway, the landmarked “wedding-cake” tower between Fulton and Dey streets. Ironically, part of Orchard’s new space was originally built out for Knotel, which…
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Swimming Pool Construction Design Market Is Booming Worldwide [Southern Poolscapes, Blue Haven Pools & Spas, Cody Pools Corporate]
Pune, Maharashtra, October 11 2021 (Wiredrelease) Market.Biz –:Market report for Swimming Pool Construction Design describes the current state of the companies and recommends where it is likely to go next. The report shows the production, revenue, price, market share, and growth rate of each type, mainly divided into Product Types [In-ground Swimming Pool, Indoor Swimming Pool] and Product Applications [Residential Swimming Pools, Commercial Swimming Pools, Public Swimming Pools], etc. Additionally, this market report focuses on offering key business measures such as real market moves, market size, qualities, and freedoms, as well as forecast opportunities. This Swimming Pool Construction Design market report also offers distinctive insights into wealthy regions such as…
