Finding your very own land on which to build is the property dream, but that doesn’t make it easy… – Fiona Walker-Arnott For many, it’s the ultimate property dream: finding a piece of land and building your own home from scratch. Recent research by the mortgage lender Together revealed that […]
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Everything Animal Crossing Dream Islands Don’t Let You Do (But Should)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Dream Islands have many wasted opportunities for player collaboration and exploration throughout the dreamscape. The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Dream Suite was implemented into the game in its 1.4 patch. It offers a method of visiting other islands, or allowing friends to visit the player’s island, […]
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Dream homes become nightmare for some new owners
Ameenah Rambus was living in a small apartment with her husband and two sons in “not the friendliest of neighborhoods” when they decided it was time to buy their first home. She was looking for a close-knit community where her sons could grow up safely. A place she could be […]
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Helping families turn their dream homes into a (virtual and literal) reality with Fischer & Frichtel | Back-to-business
Karen Thaemert When the world went virtual during the pandemic, Fischer & Frichtel, a long-standing St. Louis-area home building company, was ready to help. Spending more time at home led a lot of people to take a closer look at their living situations, and many found that their houses or apartments […]
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This Music Executive’s Dream BMW is Straight From Classic Hip-Hop
Kevin “Coach K” Lee, 49, co-founder and COO of Atlanta-based Quality Control Music, the record label that is home to hip-hop acts Migos, Lil Baby, City Girls and others, on his 1989 BMW E30 M3 Cabriolet, as told to Mike Jordan. Three years ago, I was on the computer looking […]
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Where to Buy All Your Dream Vintage Furniture Online
Photo credit: Gabriella Khalil From Harper’s BAZAAR If interior design feels more relevant than ever right now, that’s because it is. And while that encompasses all updates and interiors purchases, nothing feels buzzier at the moment than vintage and antique furniture. Since the dawn of e-commerce, comfort levels with making […]
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This Startup Lets You Design Your Dream Home Online and Then Builds It for You IRL
Photo credit: Welcome Homes From House Beautiful If the concept of being able to check out real estate listings online (thank you Zillow) as well as take virtual tours still amazes you, then you’re going to go be delighted by this next bit of news — especially if you’re looking […]
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Porsche’s online 911 GT3 configurator lets you create your dream key fob, floor mats and owner’s manual pouch
Porsche continues to innovate. Porsche I spend a lot of my free time (and a lot of my I’m-at-work-and-should-be-working time) fiddling with the various online configurators that each automaker offers, especially for newly revealed models. Porsche’s configurator is one of the best out there, with detailed 3D models and tons […]
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Cumberland teen with Cystic Fibrosis gets dream room makeover
CUMBERLAND, R.I. (WPRI) — The pandemic has kept many of us close to home, making our living spaces all the more important. That’s why 16-year-old Isabella Choiniere, known as Bella to her family and friends, wanted a full bedroom makeover. “I was going through like a really bad depression and […]
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20 dream trips for frustrated skiers to book now
The past 12 months have been a skier’s imperfect storm: the early end to last season, virtually no skiing for Brits thus far this winter and new Covid restrictions piling up like snowdrifts. It’s therefore almost inevitable that, with pent-up demand high as a mountain and uncertainty set to run […]
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‘Doctor Who’; ‘HGTV Dream Home 2021’
Jodie Whittaker in a New Year’s episode of “Doctor Who” on BBC America. (James Pardon/BBC America) During the coronavirus crisis, the Los Angeles Times is making some temporary changes to our print sections. The prime-time TV grid is on hiatus in print but an expanded version is available in your […]
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How Sarah Beeny made our dream her reality
Nonsense! I for one have been entirely invested in the venture – but given she is living my ideal life, right down to taking in rescue hens and keeping bees, I’d be lying if I didn’t feel a tiny stab of schadenfreude when Beeny eventually ended up having to plead with […]
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I thought I’d have left London and be in my dream country home by now
It is 350 miles from Hampstead Heath (via the ferry at Pembroke) to East Ferry, where one of my bridesmen has offered to lend me his cottage near the Irish coast. I leave my life packed in a 50 sq ft storage unit and head off with a suitcase and […]
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How to design your dream bathroom, even in a very small space
Interior designer Daun Curry, a graduate of the Parsons School of Design, freelanced as a stylist before opening her own New York design firm in 2009. Curry joined Washington Post staff writer Jura Koncius for an online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: What are your tips for designing […]
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We left the UK for Portland expecting a liberal dream. That wasn’t the reality
It was Labor Day. We were having a barbecue in our back garden when gale-force winds started out of nowhere. As we scrambled to hold down plates and glasses, our neighbour’s horse chestnut trees swayed menacingly, their leaves swirling around us. Over the next hour, smoke filled the air and […]
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Ritzy Waldorf Astoria auction transforms Taunton’s Silver City Galleria into bargain hunter’s dream – News – The Enterprise, Brockton, MA
The collection has had tens of thousands of bids online. TAUNTON — Right now, the Silver City Galleria is a bizarre and beautiful sight to behold. Hosting the approximately 15,000 pieces of furniture and other items from New York City’s famously ritzy Waldorf Astoria hotel while they are up for […]
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American Dream mall reopens, seeking to regain momentum
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — When the American Dream megamall opened in New Jersey last autumn, visitors could only gape at its unfinished signature attraction: a massive DreamWorks-themed waterpark with room for up to 5,600 bathers. A year and a global pandemic later, Benkos Quinones, his wife and two small […]
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‘It has been a dream of mine since I was a young boy to play here’
He is the latest import from Belgium’s golden generation, and already appears another triumph for Leicester’s recruitment team. Timothy Castagne has waited for years to fulfil his ambition of operating on England’s grandest stage and made an outstanding debut last weekend, scoring the first goal in Leicester’s stroll against West […]
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Jude Law’s HBO Mystery Works Best as a Religious Fever Dream
“The Third Day” takes a familiar story — a lost man, a mysterious island, an eccentric group of locals — and dresses it up to the nines. With starry leads Jude Law and Naomie Harris providing committed turns and an ambitious structure that breaks its story into three “seasons” — […]
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Inside the Secret Porsche Program That Helps Select Clients Customize Their Dream Car
Jorge Carnicero is a blue man. Many of the numerous cars he owns are blue. His daily uniform is a blue button-up Ralph Lauren shirt, blue jeans and a blue baseball cap. And in June of 2018, as he was sitting in the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, surrounded by […]