#Napa Home & Garden

[redheaded-eskimo]

Mudroom San Francisco Inspiration for a huge cottage medium tone wood floor and beige floor entryway remodel with white walls and a black front door

[janedoodles]

Wallpaper Bedroom An illustration of a medium-sized, traditional guest bedroom with blue walls, brown furniture, and wallpaper.

[beeandpupcat]

San Francisco Poolhouse Poolhouse

Large island style courtyard decomposed granite and rectangular infinity pool house photo

[design-and-html]

Tropical Pool - Poolhouse

a sizable island style courtyard with a rectangular infinity pool house and decomposed granite.

[jinmark]

San Francisco Dining Room

Large farmhouse great room photo with white walls, a brown floor, and medium-toned wood floors.

[efthemia]

Poolhouse - Poolhouse Inspiration for remodeling a rectangular infinity pool house with a large country courtyard made of decomposed granite

[michaelburham]

Wallpaper Bedroom An illustration of a medium-sized, traditional guest bedroom with blue walls, brown furniture, and wallpaper.

[zodiac-star]

Master Bath Bathroom in San Francisco Example of a sizable farmhouse master bathroom with white tile and stone tile flooring, white walls, a double sink, shaker cabinets, gray cabinets, a one-piece toilet, marble countertops, a hinged shower door, white countertops, and an integrated vanity.

[rinann]

Midcentury Living Room - Living Room

[mrdelamont]

San Francisco Landscape Pathway

[hometoursandotherstuff]

1988 home in Napa, California is Art Deco, Modernism, and a bit of Deconstructivism. It has 8+ acres of Cabernet vineyards, a guest house (that tower in the back) and a caretakers home. 5bds, 7ba, $22M.

The fireplace in the living room looks redone. There are a lot of doors to the patio and gardens in this home.

Even the library has a door to the outside.

The kitchen has door to the outside at each end. I wonder why they went thru the trouble of making a platform for the Smeg refrigerator. It's small, but they do come in taller sizes.

The dining room has double doors to the patio. Look at that little window.

Even the home gym has doors to the patio. It also has a wall of storage closets.

Even the mezzanine has a door to the outside. What is with all the doors in this house?

This is narrow for a primary bedroom. It has a door on both sides to go out to the terrace.

And, at one end, the room comes to a sharp corner.

Chic dark bath.

The secondary bedrooms are small and each has door to the terrace or stairs. And, they also have a tiny window.

This room's larger and has a nice view.

Large piece of modern art on the front lawn.

The pool is between the main house and the guest house. The banners on the guest house might be their wine logo.

Looks like a helicopter pad.

This is the interior of the guest house/tower.

Very cool guest house- look at the rooftop deck.

Small cabin on the property.

The caretaker's house.

The vineyards. There are 130 acres.

Great if you want to be in the wine business. There're a lot of grapes here.

[historia-vitae-magistras]

🎮 🎻 🚫 🍔 for my north american trio

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your OC's favourite hobbies?

Mari - I've always had a very enlightenment-era baby intellectual bent to her. So, reading and participating in literary culture and criticism over time returned to Juana Inés de la Cruz. There's a mix of her old-school education and folk culture in her love and talent for art. She's got a real knack for beekeeping, too.

Alfred - Lives and dies by his love of math and engineering; he was getting twitchy with the lack of Calculus right before Isaac Newton got on that shit finally, so he became an eternal tinkerer. He loves a good drive and a sky-watching session.

Matt - Woodworking, gardening, hiking.

🎻 VIOLIN — does your oc play any instruments? What is their skill level (beginner/intermediate/advanced/virtuoso/etc)?

In childhood, Maria played the vihuela and baroque guitar and later picked up the bajo de uña and the resulting base guitar. I don't know why I associate her with a drumset, but I like that mental image for some reason, too. She's excellent on all of them.

Alfred is one of those types who skipped from hobby to hobby to hobby as a child and has picked up practically every instrument at some point or another. He played the fucking church organ sometimes, especially when he was feeling weird about religion.

Matt - He's pretty goddamn good on a fiddle, and he can hold a tune, but most of his music is meant for some type of work and the folk scenes are pretty disparate so it's kind of hard to nail down a specifically Canadian musical instrument that hasn't been by and large surpassed by the US.

🚫 PROHIBITED — does your oc drink/smoke? Do they do it regularly, or is it more on occasion or for special events?

Mari - She does mostly beer with some harder alcohol, I think. Not very high consumption; she strikes me as more of a social drinker on special occasions. She can party, but I think she has some pretty hard limits on anything more than the very mainstream.

Alfred - He flies between teetotaller and binge drinker, like that with most things. He can go years with just drinking, but my man likes his stimulants, alas. But the very functional kind. He can

Matt - He would rather not be sober in general.

🍔 HAMBURGER — is your oc good at cooking? are they good at baking? Which one do they prefer?

Mari is pretty good at both but doesn't do it as much as people might think. She's been a very urbanized society for a very long time and various kinds of communal cooking. She knows the best places for Pescado a la talla or who makes the best tlacoyos in the tianguis nearest her primary home but all over the place. I don't know if she'd prefer one or the other. A thought I had is that some of her best cooking exploits are for herself. She participates in a communal culture where cooking and baking are the realm of women in many ways, so being alone in the kitchen and experimenting with her own arroz con leche or barbacoa varieties is an almost self-care ritual she holds.

Alfred - Def more of a cook than a baker. He can bake when he wants to; it's just following the steps of a recipe, but he could be more motivated by domestic things for their own sake. He will cook and bake when people are over, and people are often surprised at the quality of what makes it onto the table. He can eat seven-layer salad and jello monstrosities at a Southern or Midwest table or pull out a Napa Valley salad and wine pairing much to the ire of the old world. Food is one of the few things his hyper-individualism has yet to completely destroy.

Matt - Surprisingly good baker and cook, but not really anything anyone would write home about. Except maybe bread, he bakes a lot of bread and has had a freakishly high consumption of it since the 18th century, so archeologists can tell the bones from the New Englanders who ate a lot more corn. Not exactly internationally renowned for anything except poutine and weed scones, though, rest in pieces. If you've ever eaten anything you thought was pretty good at the time but will never ever think about again, that's Matt in the kitchen, except when he busts out the rye bread but even then no one will really believe he made it.

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[kickthecan-revolution]

I took a little roadtrip to Napa - Yountville - to see The French Laundry gardens they use for all of their food, only to discover they are now closed to the public. Too many people nipping the veggies. Ugh. End of an era! There will ne tours I guess, but the locals are bummed and so am I. I managed to snap a picture of the eggs from their chickens - how beautiful. And so much art everywhere it was cool. Now I’m home and ate half a toasted sourdough loaf as big as my head with some salad and I loved every bite of it.

1/ Titled “Bench Judge”

2/ Titled “dancing butterflies”

3/ Community Center

4/ Untitled by Joyce Brooke, the artist.

5-6/ Roses and jasmine are everywhere

7-8/ French Laundry garden

9/ Titled “Muse With Attitude”

10/ Bouchon Bakery (Thomas Keller)

[bullet-prooflove]

Juan Carlos 'Juice' Ortiz Masterlist

This is the Year - How it starts.

Sunshine Kisses - You and Juice share your first kiss on a picnic blanket in the Botanical Gardens.

A Thousand Times - Juice has thought about marrying you a thousand times.

Body Confident (NSFW) - Juice loves your confidence.

Sweet Thing - You bump into Juice whilst taking the seniors out on a field trip.

Sweet Dreams - You always leave the porch light on for Juice.

Tip of the Tongue (NSFW) - Juice loves how you taste.

Lipstick - Juice wants decides to show his commitment.

Napa - Juice takes you wine tasting.

Canvas!Series:

Canvas - You've brought so much colour into Juice's life.

Follow Me - Your ex Ronnie realises you have a new boyfriend.

Runaway - Juice comes home to find you absent.

Goodbye - Juice recieves a phone call from you in the middle of the night.

Love Letter (feat: Filip 'Chibs' Telford) - Juice begins to spiral.

Maps - Juice discovers who helped you to disappear.

Come Home - Juice finally lays eyes on you after a year apart.

First Ray of Sunshine - It's been a year since Juice has felt any sunshine in his life.

Moodboards by @darling-dread-queen:

A Thousand Times

Sweet Dreams

[jules-has-notes]

2017 VoicePlay winter activities — ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

With a new year came new projects and collaborators, as well as several personal milestones for the guys.

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Auld Lang Syne

VoicePlay started the year on someting of a bittersweet note, finally making the offical announcement of Tony's retirement from the group. Fans had been remarking on his increasing absences from VoicePlay's content and concerts over the preceding year, so the formal confirmation that he had left was sad, but certainly less upsetting in knowing that it was an amicable decision.

Five years of frequent, extended travel had taken their toll. Tony wanted to spend more time at home with his family, and refocus his creative energies on new projects through PattyCake Productions, the studio he and Layne had been building over the previous year.

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On a happier note, Eli and Ashley entered the home stretch in preparing for their wedding.

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Hot and cold

As they said in the audition video, the remaining guys didn't let a vacancy disrupt their other plans. They continued to alternate between Erik Winger and J.None as their stand-in baritones as they hit the road almost immediately.

First they picked up Winger and headed south for a stylish wedding in the Florida Keys.

Then they scooped up J.None and returned to snowy NYC for the annual APAP conference after skipping it the year before.

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Once they got home, it was time for some more rehearsals before they performed at a couple local private events and filmed their next video.

This song wasn't fast enough already, guys? Yeesh!

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Jacobson nuptials

And of course everyone gathered to celebrate at Eli and Ashley's wedding.

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From the road to the air

Toward the end of the month, Layne and Tony gathered up a few family members and friends and headed to southern Florida for their next PattyCake project.

When they got home, VoicePlay snagged J.None again and flew out west to "crash Eli's honeymoon" and headline the annual Napa Valley A Cappella Extravaganza.

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Part of the extended family

During their week at home between road dates, Earl got to meet Jodi Benson, voice of the animated Ariel, during a Nemo post-show meet and greet session.

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Round and round

The next weekend, the guys and Winger headed up to New Jersey for a show in Rahway with opening act Garden State Sound Quartet. The concert received some preliminary hype in the local press, and a very nice recap.

photos by Love Imagery, via New Jersey Stage ; and by Garden State Sound Quartet

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Then they popped home long enough to pick up J.None and Max Herskovitz for a five day trip to the Bahamas aboard the Disney Dream. While the other guys were at sea, Layne got into some tech geekery for an interview with Lens Depot as part of their customer spotlight series.

Once they disembarked, they bade farewell to Max and scooped up Layne for a quick jaunt to Maryland.

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Making a name

After a few quiet days at home, they met up with Winger again to sing the national anthem as the opening to Full Sail University's annual alumni Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

During a shopping trip the next day, Layne found a hat with surprisingly accurate embroidery. He joked that it "should have a question mark at the end", and his sister noted that a needle and thread could easily amend it. I'd argue that, like a lot of performing artists, they're more "situationally famous".

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Frozen treats

The weekend took VoicePlay (again with Winger) north to St. Joseph, MN for a show attended by several longtime fans and local gent Chris Rupp.

sleepy Layne, Paul, and Erik heading north very early in the morning

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Home time

Over next week, Layne, Tony, and Earl were busy filming PattyCake's next project, "Beauty and the Bieber", at several locations around Orlando. Meanwhile, Geoff and Kathy took advantage of the slight lull in their schedules and had a babymoon date night at a Take 6 / Manhattan Transfer concert.

But, of course, the VoicePlay momentum picked up again at their weekly planning meeting.

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Ahoy-hoy

The week after that, they gathered up J.None and Max again for another loop around the Caribbean on the Disney Dream.

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When they got home, they headed over to a local art school to perform at a fundraiser for their theater program. The lineup for the evening also included Brian Fortuna from Dancing with the Stars and Orshi Horvath, and a newly formed local boy band called the Beatline Boys.

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VoicePlay accompany Brian and Orshi for a dance

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Family time

The next few days were spent doing their own thing and marking some big milestones. Geoff and Kathy had their baby shower. Earl and Nick bought a new home.

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Back to work

The final weekend of the season was bookended by video shoots with new collaborators. Friday saw them team up with theme park pal Matthew Darren for a club jam mashup, while Monday brought a peppy breakup song with Broadway performer John Pinto, Jr.

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Once those were in the can, it was time to hit the road again, but that's a story for a another time.

[gregarnott]

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