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Eye on Design | HGTV | The Brian Boitano Project | Behind the Scenes
By now you’ll have seen the television show (if you haven’t you can find it on Netflix), and, as promised, here is my personal chronicle of Brian Boitano’s transformation of a 19th century stone house in the village of Favale di Malvaro, Italy. He started by knocking down some walls. The ground floor consisted of…
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HGTV | The Brian Boitano Project
In a tiny hamlet called Favale di Malvaro, on top of a mountain in Northern Italy, was a house where time stood still. An abandoned stone house, crumbling and derelict, was still filled with the furniture and personal relics that had belonged to countless generations of one family – the Boitanos. No one had lived…
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Style Moment | Still Life
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” Bill Moyers (b. 1934) American journalist and public commentator [Photo taken at Glenholme Country House, Kirkcudbright, Scotland]
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Scotland | Why I Went to Kirkcudbright, Part Two | Glenholme Country House
It took me four somewhat dicey hours to get to Kircudbright, Scotland, only to find there was, literally, nothing to do there. Here’s the thing about travel: No trip is ever wasted. Somewhere along the way, you’re bound to meet someone interesting, or see something intriguing, or find inspiration in an unexpected source. When I…
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Weird but Wonderful | Compromise
These neighbors in Kirkcudbright, Scotland found a way to express their individual taste, even though their houses are attached.
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Scotland | Why I went to Kirkcudbright (“ker – COO – bree”), Part One
I had a limited amount of time in Scotland, and I knew I would go to Edinburgh and Glasgow – but I also wanted to see a bit of the country. My first choice would have been the Highlands, but I didn’t have time to do that trip. So I did what I always do…
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Style Moment | Christmastime
Ubiquity Hands Hode Mannus grmadubc vvfein
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Weird but Wonderful | Not What You Think
The FBI in a bonny little village called Falkland, in the Kingdom of Fife. It’s not the Federal Bureau of Investigation, though – it’s the Falklands Bruce Inn.
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Scotland | Kingdom of Fife – The Bus Tour | Part Two
Part One of the Kingdom of Fife Bus Tour story left off as I was running back to the tour bus in the harbor of Anstruther, Scotland, after photographing the irresistible “shell house.” Not only did I make it back to the bus, but I had time to take one more funny photograph (who doesn’t…
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Weird but Wonderful | Entrance Fee
The public toilets in the harbor of the quaint fishing village of Anstruther, Scotland.
