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Jill Goldberg knows the value of good advice. The owner of Hudson was recently featured on NECN offering tips on ways to spruce up your home for less than $50. In addition to the tips in the video, Jill offers these suggestions as well: Of course the most simple change comes in a can of [...]
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As the saying goes, a company is only as good as its employees. CBT Architects underscored that philosophy when they named new Senior Associates and Associates. Recognizing the leadership value these individuals bring to the firm, CBT Architects, Boston’s second largest architecture and urban design company, has named 5 new Senior Associates, and 12 new Associates. [...]
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ICFF 2010 has come and gone and it was quite a show. Gradon and I went down on Saturday and managed to do the show and five parties in under ten hours. We saw the good and not so good. I think it’s important to highlight the contrasts between this year’s show and the last. [...]
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I love design, and I know when something is done well, but I’m no designer. So I’m excited to introduce “Wake Up Wednesday”, our newest series here on DesignBoston featuring local interior designer Ana Donohue! We all have that room with no moldings, no architectural detail, or we have that room that is great architecturally [...]
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You can do ICFF in a day, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Christopher and I took an early bus down to New York on Saturday for the first day of ICFF 2010, and came back that night, getting back to Boston around 3:00AM. In between those two four-hour bus rides, there was much design to [...]
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Some people are strict modernists. Others, pure classicists. But I’d guess most people would fall somewhere in between, just as Boston-area interior designer Ana Donohue’s clients did. They were looking a space that “would be appealing to both a contemporary and traditional aesthetic, with a kid friendly twist.” To achieve this, Ana combined shapes, patterns and [...]
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Week 7 – Bedroom This past week I shopped a lot for colored accents to use in our bedroom with no luck! I just couldn’t find anything I liked. However upon shopping around in my own home I managed to find enough green accessories like frames, vases, and a pillow to use in the bedroom [...]
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Week 6 – update Light therapy didn’t really happen for us this week! Aside from not having time and money to find solutions to our lighting problem, the hanging lamp from ikea we purchased didn’t seem to work out either! So I think this will just need to take more time. However, the bathrooms are [...]
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If you’ve ever sat through a discussion or film at any of Boston’s historic colleges, you’ll recognize the problem MIT had at Simmons Hall: An “array of simple, flat upholstered benches set on cast-in-place concrete steps” proved difficult for the various types of events and gatherings that happened there — musical and theatrical productions, film [...]
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This week started off strong and then dwindled very quickly! We were a bit distracted with our baby to do list this week. But I started off the week cleaning out our wall of white cabinets, attempting to make more space. I managed to gain 3 extra shelves! No doubt that those shelves will get [...]
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