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Month: August 2011

“Oh snap!” A Junior Man Cave Makeover

July 14, 2020August 30, 2011 by Linda Merrill

In 2007, I was honored to be asked to do a bedroom makeover for an 11 year old recovering leukemia patient named Marcus. This project was done in conjunction with the Jimmy Fund of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Homegoods, who provided all the material goods. I posted about this when it originally aired, … Read more

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Kips Bay Showhouse 2011: A late post on a beautiful bathroom

July 14, 2020August 25, 2011 by Linda Merrill

Way back in May (where DOES the time go) I spent a lovely hour chatting with Joy Licht, founder of Cayley Barrett, Assoc., a design-build firm in NYC about the lovely bathroom she did for this year’s Kips Bay Showhouse.  Joy founded the company twenty years ago when there were nearly no women owned construction … Read more

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The Skirted Roundtable: We recap Million Dollar Decorators

July 14, 2020August 22, 2011 by Linda Merrill

This week at The Skirted Roundtable while Megan was on vacation we were joined by Artie Vanderpool of the blog Color Outside the Lines to talk about our thoughts on the complete first (we hope there’s more!) season of Bravo TV’s Million Dollar Decorators. We all agreed that the show was a big success, for … Read more

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Insider’s View of House Beautiful’s Kitchen of the Year 2011

July 14, 2020August 14, 2011 by Linda Merrill

Contributed by Lori Dolnick On a hot, hot July Monday in New York City, I had the opportunity to tour the House Beautiful Kitchen of the Year with Tyler Florence. I actually bumped Tyler as I squeezed through the packed audience to see the kitchen. And yes… I’m a kitchen design addict so I bypassed … Read more

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