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katharined · 2 years ago

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@philippaed, @myladygrey / 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔. the suffolk's suite of hampton court apartments.

Though her cheeks had shed the frightful sallow of sea sickness, Lady Suffolk’s belly was still as unsettled as the tempestuous channel her ship had crossed in order to return to England. It churned with the memory of being pitched and rolled about in the underbelly of a mighty galleon, as cramped as it was dark, until at last the skies cheered – lifting from leaden gray to a pale yellow, the coastal cliffs of Dover searing through the mist like a molten blade through butter. Almost immediately upon returning to London, Katharine had set about making improvements to the Greys’ lavish suite of apartments at Hampton Court, in the style of her opulent chambers at Chambord. Fastidiously she replaced the drab damask curtains slung over the diamond-shaped panes in the windows with cloth-of-gold, embroidered with her mother’s royal coat-of-arms; swapped the old tallow candles with fresh bees wax, burning sweetly throughout each chamber, installed in costly candelabrum of silver; replenished her daughters’ closets with the newest French fabrics and patterns, a welter of pearl and diamond-edged hoods lining the oak table of the morning room, leaking with sunshine.

Though the ground still tilted disconcertingly, Katharine smiled admiringly at her work, two hands perched upon her narrow hips as she assessed the brightened space with pride. Yet as another wave of lingering nausea gathered within her like a great and sickening tidal, the Duchess was obliged to find perch on the velvet bench of the window, doffing the hood from her head and tossing it to the wall, milky droplets of pearls soaring into the air, rubbing the tender stretch of skin where her headdress was pinned and stabbed rather tightly into place. Katharine, never one to rest, would have liked to press onwards with all speed, perhaps even join her daughters for a hunt; but the airs of court had never been particularly salubrious, and travel had wearied her.

But still she roused herself when her eldest daughters, Philippa and Amelia, came bursting through the door in a flood of laughter; two youths with pink cheeks, their father’s complexion, as radiant as a summer’s day, their faces stamped with Katharine’s plucky dark eyes. ‘Back already?’ Katharine asked from the window, surrounded by a mountain of missives intermixed with bits of gemstone that had flown, like the glittering spray of spindrift, from her damnable hood. ‘You’ve come just in time, the new gowns I ordered have arrived from Paris!’ Sufficiently cheered, Katharine rose. ‘I had hoped by this time we would have needed a little fabric to let out your stays, dear Philippa, but with such handsome gowns it will be no time at all ere we have another blessed child to celebrate. Amelia, darling, tell your sister she mustn't disagree with her lady mother.'

#philippa / 001.#amelia / 001.#myladygrey #philippaed

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saleintothe90s · 5 years ago

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396. Three French Stores That Came to the United States and failed

(reference -- whenever I think in threes, I think of Jenna Marbles and her three looks)

In the late 80s to the early to mid 1990s, three French stores tried to set up shop on United States shores, and all three failed miserably.

When I think of the term “hypermarket”, my brain automatically begins playing the song, “I Just Can’t Get Enough”, and I begin to picture flashing lights and arcades and stupid kids screaming. Not a giant white box that is the size of three football fields that sold everything from groceries to fridges. Certainly nothing something inspired by the French.

But that was Carrefour. (which, when I first saw the name years ago I mistakingly read it as “carrie-four” at first--I believe its pronounced “CAR-four”) The Philadelphia location which opened in 1988 was so big that people who were assigned to do price checks wore roller skates to get around the store faster. Now that I’m thinking, my hometown WalMart tried doing this in the mid 90s when they had their Super Center renovation, they had a guy on rollerblades. My newspaper even did an article about him. I can’t imagine he lasted very long at WalMart due to liability reasons, having a guy rollerbade around a crowded store. Carrefour didn’t have this problem because ... nobody came. This place had 60 registers and nobody came! It lost $29 million in its first year. 3

(A rare interior photo of the Philadelphia location. I found this on on Reddit [archive])

One problem was, they didn’t advertise as well as they should. 1 I’ve been searching off an on for the past week about more info about these stores, and I’ve only found one newspaper ad from their short foray in Voorhees, New Jersey, and one commercial.

(Another rare color interior photo, this one from New York Magazine)

From what I’ve been reading, at the time, Americans just were not ready to go into a store that sold “radios and radicchio”. 2 This quote from the New York article:

I feel like Chris just descried a modern day Sam’s Club. See, too ahead of their time.

By September 1993, it was over. The Voorhees New Jersey location had only been open a year. These giant vacant stores were cut up into smaller stores.

The second store, didn’t last nearly as long as Carrefour. Leedmark, opened by the French hypermarket company E.Leclerc had one location in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The rough translation on the photo above:

Michel-Edouard Leclerc In the United States Michel-Edouard Leclerc opens the first Leclerc Center in the United States named Leedmark on May 31, 1991 in Baltimore, USA. (Photo by Alexis DUCLOS / Gamma Rapho via Getty Images)

Michel-Edouard was livin’ it up in Glen Burnie. I mean check this out:

The dude walking by is like, “why would I want a shirt with my own country’s flag on it?”

The little TVs at the registers were supposed to “entertain” people in line. I suspect lines were never long enough. 5

(highconstruction.com)

The store opened in May of 1991. Two years later, in October of 1993, the store was failing just like Carrefour. Nobody wanted to shop in such a giant store. 4 It was announced that the store would close by January of 1992. 6 The building was cut in two, one half was a WalMart and the other half was a Mars grocery store. From what I’ve seen on flickr, it looks like in the last ten years Mars has closed and the entire store is a giant WalMart.

The final store is Galeries Lafayette, which is not a Hypermarket, but a high end department store from France. Opening in the old Bonwit Teller department store at Trump Tower, the store was announced in the Summer of 1991, and opened on September 28th of the same year. The French company took a giant risk of opening an unfamiliar store during a retail slump. 7 So many stores pooped the bed in the early 90s. I mean just in my area of Hampton, Virginia, Miller & Rhoads, Thalhimers, Hess’, Bradlees, Builder’s Square, all gone in the early 90s.

aw, why does this ad look like Gilda Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna character? If she was French. “C'est toujours quelque chose!”

On opening day, shoppers gathered around the Bourjois display and marveled at the brightly colored French makeup. 9

The following Summer they had a Bastille Day celebration. They also lost 17 million dollars that year. 8

Two Summers later, it was over, on August 31st, 1994 it was announced that operations at the store would wind down. There wasn’t enough in the store to make it different from the other stores on 5th avenue in New York City. 10 It was soon replaced by Nike Town.

Honorable mentions, because they actually lasted until the early 2000s:

biggs biggs actually lasted in the U.S. until 2010. While Bigg’s wasn’t a chain in France, it was owned by the French company Euromarché. I asked around on twitter, and this was the first biggs that opened in the Eastgate area of Cincinnati, Ohio. It’s now home to a giant Jungle Jim’s grocery store.

Auchan While the Illinois store flopped early on, Houston Texas held on to the French Hypermarket chain Auchan (pronounced “O-Shawn”) until 2003. Check out this commercial. Look at the kick ass bird logo flying through the store and letting us know about the deals on soda pop and sun tea jars.

1. Wise, Deborah, “French Hypermarket Adjusts to U.S.,” New York Times, February 20, 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/20/business/international-report-french-hypermarket-adjusts-to-us.html

2. Kanner, Bernice, “Really Big Business,” New York, October 7, 1991. 20, https://books.google.com/books?id=4ugCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=Carrefour,+New+Jersey+store&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZlM-h6bzkAhUto1kKHd94Ab4Q6AEwCXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=Carrefour%2C%20New%20Jersey%20store&f=true

3. Sternquist, Brenda, European retailing's vanishing borders ( Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 1994), 113. https://archive.org/details/europeanretailin0000ster/page/112

4. Dresser, Michael, “Huge Leedmark store may close doors soon 2 1/2 -year-old Glen Burnie 'hypermarket' pressed by creditors, starved for cash,” Baltimore Sun, October 27, 1993. http://archive.is/f9lkt

5. Thomas, Kevin, “Huge store opening in Glen Burnie Leedmark officials refuse to call store a hypermarket,” Baltimore Sun, May 22, 1991. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-05-22-1991142230-story.html

6. Grimsley, Kristen Downey, “LEEDMARK TO CLOSE MARYLAND MEGA-STORE,” Washington Post, November 2, 1993. http://archive.is/XOJdr#selection-1295.0-1402.0′

7. Barmash, Isadore, “ COMPANY NEWS; A Store on Fifth Avenue Will Be 'Totally French',” New York Times, May 30, 1991. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/30/business/company-news-a-store-on-fifth-avenue-will-be-totally-french.html

8. Strom, Stephanie, “Executive Leaving Galeries Lafayette,” New York Times, April 27, 1993. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/27/business/company-news-executive-leaving-galeries-lafayette.html

9. Trucco, Terry, “BEAUTY; Bonjour, Bourjois!,” New York Times Magazine, November 3, 1991. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/magazine/beauty-bonjour-bourjois.html

10. Zuckerman, Laurence, “Galeries Lafayette to Close Its Doors,” New York Times, August 31, 1994. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/31/business/galeries-lafayette-to-close-its-doors.html

#1980s retail #1990s retail #stores #retail history #carrefour #leedmark #hypermarkets #grocery stores #auchan #biggs #retail #the 1980s #the 1990s #galeries lafayette

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canaryrecords · 6 years ago

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An unfinished obit for Leo Sarkisian (January 4, 1921 – June 8, 2018): Leo Sarkisian arrived home from World War II as a man in his mid-20s with nine battle stars including a bronze star “for meritorious service” and initiative, energy, and perseverance. He had volunteered straight out of art school in September, 1942 and for a year a half had been a topographical cartographer for the U.S., stationed in Algeria as part of Engineer Intelligence Services. Because he had been tasked with studying overhead photographs of German bases in Salerno, he was sent in with the Commandos in Italy because he knew the lay of the land. He walked in with the assault. A third of the U.S. force died. He had seen that – friends his age. The war over, Sarkisian lived first with his uncle, a dry cleaner, in New York City on 8th Avenue near 24th Street. His uncle got him a job as an illustrator – magazines and books – during the day. Lots of Armenians were engravers and illustrators. At night, he went out and listened to music and drank and blew his wages in jazz clubs in the Village listening to Artie Shaw, Lionel Hampton, and Vido Musso, Benny Goodman’s Italian tenor saxophonist. Leo had always been a clarinetist himself and played jazz. Then there were the “oriental” clubs up and down 8th Ave, where music in Turkish, Greek, and Armenian thrived among the immigrants - The Egyptian Gardens, The Brittania. The music there was close to the music from childhood in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the older Armenian men played oud, violin, zurna, and dumbek and sang Ottoman folk songs in Turkish, listening to Marko Melkon and “Sugar Mary” Vartanian, and Louis Matalon, Sephardic Jew at whose side Leo often sat, watching him play the 72-string dulcimer, the kanun. That was when Leo wasn’t throwing money at the dancers or ordering another drink. And it was like the fleeting, fun nights in Rabat and Casablanca when Leo had heard Arabs playing the same instruments with bellydancers. There was one night when he had been chased off by the French police because the music “stirred up the locals.” There was another when he had a moment of stardom because he, an American G.I., had gotten up and played oud and rocked the house. A bellydancer had wrapped her arms around him because played a song he knew from back in Lawrence. The nightclubs in New York were for the weekends. Weeknights were all in the New York Public Library. Four nights a week, Leo read anything about music from Asia and Africa. There he saw patterns of expansion of instruments and ideas. The kanun and its scales travel from here to there. One instrument travels to another place. A local instrument replaces it, but the idea of how it’s played remains. There is a connection from the Ottoman Empire to the Arab world. Then, Africa to India and China… There is a deep musical connection among all of these people, including a boy from Lawrence, Massachusetts who feel compelled under the city’s lights to understand how his own feeling of music connects so many other people. “I don’t know why,” he told me in 2014, when he was 94 years old. “I’m reading, reading all this stuff. There was something in me that I had that feeling that whoever wrote those books didn’t really have that feeling… Even if someone does get a degree in music and stuff like that, there’s something between – under – inside of you. They can’t get that.” Leo’s father arrived through the port of Boston from Diyarbekir in present-day Turkey in 1901 with the great wave of Armenian immigration following the Hammidean massacres of 1891-96. A quarter of a million Armenians died in that wave of killings, twenty years before more than a million more Armenians were killed by Ottoman forces. That moment coincided with one of the largest waves of emigration to the United States that the country ever saw with Christians and Jews from Eastern and Southern Europe flowing in to just the port of New York, never mind Boston, San Francisco, or anywhere else, at a rate of 1,000 souls a day, week after week, year after year, decade after decade. Most of them came from Eastern and Southern Europe, meaning that most of them were not from the Northern European counties who were the culturally dominant ethnic stock of the U.S. That wave came only about forty years after the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. gave equal protection to all naturalized (male) citizens to the U.S., including the right to vote. The existing Protestant majority of the U.S. took such a dim view of idea that the Catholic and Jewish immigrants might vote that Congress had hearings in which mid-Western eugenicist authorities argued effectively that the breeding stock of the U.S. would be diluted if a serious change in immigration policy were not implemented. With the 1896 Chinese Exclusion Act as precedent, in 1924, three years after Leo Sarkisian was born and nine years after the genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the Reed-Johnson act set quotas for immigrants by country of origin, based on a complicated set of mathematics aimed at keeping the U.S. ethnically stable and exactly as White as it ever was. 51,227 Germans were allowed to emigrate each year. 54,009 from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 5,982 from Poland. Only 120 Armenians a year were allowed. Zero from Africa or Asia. Living in a room over beer joint in the Village in 1952, Leo showed a friend of his some notes he’d made on Central Asian music at the library. He’d made some smart connections between the descriptions of one imperialist traveler and other, and when Leo’s friend showed them to Irving B. Fogel of Tempo Records, a friend of Walt Disney’s whom everyone called “Colonel,” Fogel knocked on Leo’s door and asked him to move to Hollywood to work for Tempo. “You’re who I’ve been looking for,” Fogel said. Leo said OK and took with him an Armenian girl who had gone to his same high school in Lawrence but whom he’d met when they were both in the military. Tempo was largely a specialty label offering among the first muzak-type sound programs. After a year of luxury in Hollywood and working with great sound engineers, he worked on the hit record “Sweet Georgia Brown” by Brother Bones and the soundtracks of African Queen, and six Tarzan movies. Fogel decided to send Leo and Mary to record music in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Burma for the label. So, in 1950, still in their late 20s, Leo and Mary went first to Karachi then in Lahore before pushing through the Khyber Pass in a jeep loaded with recording equipment, Budwiser and vodka to Kabul. They were treated as dignitaries, and Tempo released the 10” LP Drums Over Afghanistan from their efforts. That trip was Leo’s phD in listening to people – dignitaries and folks alike – hanging out with them, drinking, talking, digging music, and making friends. There were diplomatic problems with Russians, but nothing he couldn’t handle. On the way back across the subcontinent, he met and recorded Alludin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Bismillah Khan. There was a world of master musicians he had access to now for only the reason that he was American and had learned how to travel and to be good guest and cared deeply about music. Leo was learning to be a great ambassador for the U.S. At the same time, he was learning that wherever you go, you meet Armenians. Leo and Mary were greeted on New Year’s Day 1955 at the airport at Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by a delegation of Armenians who took him to the Armenian church and the cemetery, where they saw graves of Armenians dating to the 15th century. “The big guy looks out for me,” he told laughingly. “Because God is Armenian!” In 1959, Tempo relocated Leo and Mary, then in their late 30s to Ghana and then, about a year later to Guinea with an eye to creating African recordings for the American market. A knock came at their door in 1963 in their home in Conakry, Guinea. Incredibly it was Edward R. Murrow, who had been appointed head of the United States Information Agency by President John F. Kennedy. Leo and Mary invited Murrow in to listen to some of Leo’s recordings, and Murrow offered Leo a job as the Voice of America’s broadcaster for Africa. They were allowed two years to travel the continent to learn before Leo first broadcast Music Time in Africa in 1965 from Liberia where they lived until 1969, when they moved close to Washington D.C. For more than forty years, Leo broadcast African music to Africa and made many trips. He claimed to have visited every country on the continent, and he drew hundreds of faces. The Leo Sarkisian Library at the Voice of America now houses not only his LPs and CDs but also 10,000 reel-to-reel tapes that he made on his travels, including early performances by musicians who later gained recognition, Fela Kuti among them. It is for Music Time in Africa that he will always be remembered, among the pioneers of Western recordists of African music including the Opika brothers, Hugh Tracey, and Willard Rhodes. There were fan clubs through the continent in the 70s and 80s. Bags of letters came thanking him for celebrating what was good about being African. His enthusiasm for the music was obvious. He never referred to anyone’s “band,” always an “orchestra.” In D.C., he continued to play kanun with Armenian bands, playing on a couple of LPs as a talented sideman. His Silver Spring, Maryland home was covered in his paintings of the faces of African women. When Mary’s vision failed, he said, “she took care of me for fifty years. Now, I have to take care of her for fifty years.” He donated his personal collection of instruments to the University of Michigan. The defunding of the VOA under the Obama administration such that he could not travel there as he liked troubled him deeply. He had served the United States under thirteen presidents, every one since Truman, and it pained him when at the age of 91, the oldest federal employee, he stepped down from Music Time in Africa, handing the reins to Heather Maxwell.

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surly01 · 4 years ago

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A Pox Upon Us

Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on March 22, 2020

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves” ― Albert Camus, The Plague

During the incursions of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that attacked Europe in waves during the 14th and 16th centuries, the rich have always taken pains to insure that sickness remains the province of the poor. Some things never change.

Plague doctors wore a beaked mask and carried a stick. During the 16th century, French royal physician Charles de Lorme is credited with having invented the bird-beak plague mask. The long, beaked mask was typically filled with sweet or strong-smelling herbs, such as wormwood, the main ingredient in absinthe, which were believed to filter out miasma, or bad air, thought at the time to spread plague.

As Jezebel reminds us, Rich People Have Always Been Assholes During Plagues. In the 14th century Black Death, which wiped out somewhere between 30 to 50 percent of Europe’s population, those who could afford were told “cito, longe, tarde:” “flee soon, go far, come back late.” As servants were left behind to clean the houses of an absent aristocracy, the swells and grandees got the hell out of town. Reports abound of those left in cities screaming while being enclosed alive in body bags bound for the plague pits.

The 21st century version of retreating to one’s Italian villa seems to be barricading oneself in a Hamptons mansion. The new court physician is the concierge doctor, and the new plague mask is the high-end, sold-out Urban Air Mask 2.0, miasma-blocking herbs replaced by “cutting-edge filter technology with timeless Scandinavian design,” the company’s website reads. Gwenyth Paltrow recently posted a selfie wearing the $65 modern-day plague mask en route to Paris, though doctors say they’re likely ineffective, as the masks are intended to prevent sick people from spreading coronavirus, not protect well people from catching it.

Our own rich are following the advice to flee and stay away, hiring private planes to avoid the miasma emanating from those who fly coach. The Rich Are Scrambling To Escape COVID-19 On Private Jets. And money is often no object.

The most wealthy among us are trying to get around flight bans with private jet flights as they are desperate to get into or home from Caribbean countries, many of which have partial or full international travel bans. .. These countries are home to many affluent expatriates. The money some of them spend on private jet flights is staggering. One round trip to Europe in a Gulfstream 550 jet from the United States with five passengers can easily cost the client six figures.

With the world being crippled in many ways by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ultra-wealthy still have places to be and airline options are not only becoming restrictive, they are dwindling. Rumors currently abound of private jet pilots, both from charter operations and private flight departments, being offered large bonuses to get into and out of Caribbean resort countries undetected and bypassing customs and port of entry requirements.

Yes, I know you have your so-called "rules," but this is ME we're talking about. And I'll pay you handsomely.

And you might wonder: Why are the rich and famous getting coronavirus tests while we aren't? It occurs to a couch-surfing peasant to wonder how elite athletes on NBA teams, rich actors and well-connected swells can get tested, when first responders and many presenting with obvious symptoms have been turned away.

Just kidding.

While the evasions and lubrications by the rich may stink as much as the flesh of rotting buboes, we'll need a plague mask to mask the stench of corruption emanating from Washington, DC this week.

Virus Vultures

On Thursday, Senators faced a massive scandal after multiple members revealed in public filings that they had sold large stock holdings after private briefings on the coronavirus outbreak. Senator Richard Burr Sold a Fortune in Stocks as G.O.P. Played Down Coronavirus Threat to the mere public. And Sen. Kelly Loeffler, she of the half-billion dollar net worth (the richest member of Congress), sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings after the same, private, all-senators meeting as Burr. Then, she bought stock in a telework software company. Later, as March unfolded, fear of the virus hammered U.S. equities for its largest loss in decades.

After they were briefed that the coronavirus crisis would be far worse than was publicly known, they dumped their personal stock market holdings while publicly insisting that things would be fine. Even while privately telling wealthyt constituents that it was going to be ugly. From the Times:

Senator Richard M. Burr sold hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock in major companies last month, as President Trump and others in his party were still playing down the threat presented by the coronavirus outbreak and before the stock market’s precipitous plunge.

The stocks were sold in mid-February, days after Mr. Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, wrote an opinion article for Fox News suggesting that the United States was “better prepared than ever before” to confront the virus. At least three other senators sold major stock holdings around the same time, disclosure records show.

No less a noted socialist than Fox News host Tucker Carlson, called for Burr’s resignation.

“He dumped his shares in hotel stocks so he wouldn’t lose money, and then he stayed silent,” Mr. Carlson said during his show on Thursday night. “Maybe there is an honest explanation for what he did. If there is, he should share it with us immediately. Otherwise, he must resign from the Senate and face prosecution for insider trading.”

Three other senators also sold major holdings around the same time.

It makes perfect sense to believe, does it not, that the richest single member of Congress, a former investment banker CEO worth $500M and married to the NY stock exchange president, a Senator with inside knowledge and ability to manipulate markets, has no idea what her portfolio is doing.

These moves place Burr and Loeffler in direct violation of the STOCK Act of 2012, which specifically made it illegal for members of Congress to trade equities based on any secret information received as part of their jobs.

For their parts, Burr and Loeffler have asked for Ethics Committee investigations to, wait for it, "clear their names." Which, since the secretive committee meets behind closed doors, means waiting until the shitmist from the scandal settles and it's time to start pounding the phones to raise money for re-election.

No idea at all. Baseless attack.

The Times article continues:

In a series of posts on Twitter, Mr. Burr accused NPR of twisting his comments into a “tabloid-style hit piece.” He argued that the report made him look duplicitous for sharing information at a publicly advertised event that was consistent with the message members of the Trump administration were then trying to promulgate. He did not address his stock sales.

Of course he didn't.

You Can't Have One.

This is the above-referenced selfie of Gwyneth Paltrow, actress-cum-celebrity goopifier, who has built a second career positing that illness can be prevented by cold baths, energy healing and making better lifestyle choices, wearing a ventilator. And not just any ventilator. From the looks of it, an Airnum in Onyx Black. And don't ask, peasant: sold out.

Remember that we pissed away two months of lead time because Trump didn't want "the numbers" to harsh the stock market and thus his re-election chances. For months, Trump has his band of grifters and right wing media enablers have said that it was nothing to worry about, and they had it contained.

Pete Hegseth said “the more I learn about this, the less there is to worry about.” Jeanine Pirro asserted that mainstream-media coverage “doesn’t reflect reality.” Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the non-cult press as “panic pushers” stirring up “mass hysteria.” And Trish Regan at Fox Business accused the “liberal media” of using the coronavirus “to impeach the president. That last outburst was apparently bad enough to rouse Rupert Murdoch from his crypt to take her off the air.

What a difference a few days, and a few thousand active coronavirus cases in the U.S., can make. Both Trump and FNC have changed their tune regarding the significance of the virus. And Trump, prevented from staging his Nuremberg rallies to bathe in the adulation of his cult, has taken his act of vindictiveness, press attacks, and racism to the White House briefing room. It is a failing of the corporate media that they continue to live broadcast these exercises in propaganda. During a pandemic, disinformation costs lives.

It’s certainly true that health workers and those who have already contracted the virus should be getting masks before celebrities, considering we’re entering into global mask shortage that will make it even more difficult to contain a rapidly spreading public health crisis.

But Paltrow isn’t modeling a mask out of deep concern for public health; she’s posting because she’s beginning to panic. Covid-19 definitely isn’t the end times, but it’s a useful indication of what end times might look like: All our favorite celebrities, like the rest of the idle rich, tossing away their public postures and scrambling to spend as much money as necessary to make sure that they stay safe.

Latebreaking News:

Coronavirus updates: Angela Merkel quarantined, Rand Paul tests positive, Ohio on lockdown

Germany is banning gatherings of 2 or more people to slow coronavirus outbreak

US states report price gouging

A top New York surgeon warns that the coronavirus has 'breached' hospital walls and infections could peak in 22 to 32 days

Italy Tightens Quarantine as It Battles World’s Deadliest Coronavirus Outbreak

In strategic shift, doctors in America's two largest cities are told to skip some coronavirus testing.

Surly1 was an administrator and contributing author to Doomstead Diner. He is the author of numerous rants, screeds and spittle-flecked invective here and elsewhere. He lives a quiet domestic existence in Southeastern Virginia with his wife Contrary. Descended from a long line of people to whom one could never tell anything, all opinions are his and his alone, because he paid full retail for everything he has managed to learn.

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storybookau-blog · 5 years ago

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Hamptons Style Home Builders in Melbourne Cannot Compromise With These Tenets

It will be readily acknowledged that their beach-y white shades instantly give away Hampton homes. But there are more to these beautiful homes than beach tones alone. According to expert Hamptons style home builders in Melbourne, the hallmark of these homes is subtle classicism. Moreover, there are various other technical components of the idea.

Punctilious Positioning of Diverse Elements

The primary aim of a Hampton home is to exude the incomparable charm of oceanic transcendence. Accordingly, these houses are steeped with the likes of bi-fold French doors, multi-paned windows and breathtaking skylights. These add to the feel of hovering amid the unscathed elements.

Indeed, of all Hamptons style home designers in Melbourne, none would deny the significance of open rooms. These serve to enhance the oceanic ooze by a considerable degree.

A Majestic Meld of Blue and White

Blue and white combine to mirror the sea and sky. Therefore, there is practically no scope of lurid tones in Hampton homes. Here Earth is aptly replaced by the infinity of two zeniths.

More significantly, the blue and white combine best evokes the core Australian mood, one that Hamptons style home builders in Melbourne strive to achieve.

The Significance of Spaciousness

You know that both sea and sky are synonymous with spaciousness. Hampton homes must reflect the same. Begin with positioning huge mirrors across the hall.

Move on to gregarious investment in plump cushions and sprawling lounges to amplify the sense of space. Indeed, Hamptons style home designers in Melbourne would expect no less. The idea is to emulate the limitless aura of everlastingness in the vein of heavens above and the oceans below.

Conclusion

It is important to note that Hampton homes form the core cultural fabric of Australian tradition. In consequence, there is a very delicate sentimental pattern underlying it. Therefore, it is all the more critical to stick to the architectural codes, apparent or implied, if you want to erect a home that is in concord with the spirit of a Hampton.

#Hamptons style home builders Melbourne #Hamptons style home designers Melbourne

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cvpwindowdoor · 1 year ago

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How Much Does Professional Window and Door Replacement Cost in 2023?

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gleitzman · 8 years ago

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B-boys on E

It's widely known that marijuana and hip hop are inextricably linked - just turn on the radio or take your pick of MCs becoming poster-boys of weed culture. However, there's a more obscure branch of rap references dating back to the early 90's that have another target in focus: ecstasy. In December of 2000, Simon Reynolds penned an article for the webzine of London-based record label Hyperdub, which now boasts artists such as DJ Rashad, Burial, and Martyn, about the rising trend of MDMA-related references in rap lyrics.

A comprehensive look into B-boys on E, I've republished the piece below alongside a playlist of every track mentioned in the article, including a few sub-2000's tracks that came to mind. Put down the blunt and pick up the pacifier.

Hip Hop and Ecstasy - Simon Reynolds

Magazine editors have a secret formula: "two things, that's just a coincidence--but three, that's a trend". Well, here's three pieces of evidence. On "Let's Get High" from his don't-call-this-a-comeback album The Chronic 2001, Dr. Dre declares " I just took some Ecstasy/Ain't no tellin what the side effects could be". In The Wire's Christmas issue, El-P of underground hip hop outfit Company Flow listed among his 1999 highlights trying Ecstasy "for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth time". And gangsta rappers Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's latest album BTNH Resurrection contains the song "Ecstasy," inspired by the group's recent introduction to MDMA. The chorus features some of Bone Thugs private slang for the E sensation: "I feel so 'Z'/I feel so ziggety ziggety ziggety/Cause I'm floatin' in ecstasy.." Bizzy's so impressed with the "new shit" touted by their weed dealer that he even wishes Eazy E, Bone Thugs's deceased mentor, "was here to feel pillish, pillish, pillish, pillish."

Add to this reports of thugs and bitches buzzing on E at the Tunnel (New York's most hardcore and "street" rap club), MDMA references in tracks by Jay-Z, Eminem, DJ Quik, Nas, Three-6 Mafia, and Saafir, and persistent rumors about a certain rap mogul who's got a serious Ecstasy habit, and you've got more than a trend--you've got a phenomenon: Hip Hop America Gets Loved Up. It's happened as a knock-on effect of the astonishing surge in Ecstasy use in America over the last two years, itself triggered by a return to reliable, high-dose MDMA pills thanks to Mitshubishi and the brands that followed in its wake. The New York Times reported a 450 percent increase between 1998 and 1999 in Ecstasy seizures by police and customs (which usually roughly reflect the amount of Ecstasy on sale on the streets). The United States Custom Service is projecting a 1500 percent increase from 1999 to 2000! For the first time since it was legal in the early Eighties, MDMA is popular outside the rave scene, with college students and yuppies throwing E parties. And finally, the drug has made significant inroads into the rap community.

On the face of it, Ecstasy would not appear to be a B-boy drug. MDMA lowers one's emotional defences, promotes feelings of trust and tactile tenderness, defuses aggression. It basically creates the exact opposite mind-body-soul state to rap's paranoid and paramilitary ego, all threats and boasts and psychologically armored readiness for the outbreak of hostilities. It also seems really unlikely that your typical gangsta rapper would enjoy exploring Ecstasy's androgynizing effects--the way it makes men more able to express their emotions, be cuddly and affectionate, talk to women without sex as the primary goal, find it difficult to achieve an erection or have an orgasm. These swoony Ecstasy effects would probably be experienced as traumatic not pleasurable--threatening sensations of weakness, softness, E-masculation. Hip hop's ethos of "keeping it real," its concern with reflecting hardcore street realities of crime and incarceration, also conflicts with rave's Ecstasy-fuelled positivity and utopian hope. This dark-tinted realism was a common attitude in the early jungle scene, which was highly influenced by hip hop values. For many Black British junglists, Ecstasy was "false," a chemical haze of unreality that didn't resonate with their harsh experience of urban life.

Judging by the Ecstasy-inspired lyrics that have emerged from rap so far, though, even MDMA can't teach an old dogg new tricks. The sexual attitudes haven't improved one bit. Dr. Dre's lyric about just dropping an E goes straight into "All these fine bitches equal sex to me/plus I got this bad bitch layin' next to me". In "Ecstasy", Bone MC Flesh rhymes about "feelin’ hot and exotic with an arced cock/ I'm feelin' too sexy for my muthafuckin self/Gotta find my bitch and I’m gonna fuck her ass to death!". There are stories floating around about major ballers and shot-callers in the rap industry who throw parties at their mansions in the Hamptons (an expensive Long Island summer home area favored by Manhattan's wealthy and famous) where Ecstasy is primarily used to get the ladies "in the mood" for multiple-partner sex. As for the violence in rap lyrics, rhymes about guns and murda have not been replaced by spiritualized Ecstasy babble about P.L.U.R. (the American raver's mantra of "peace, love, unity and respect"). Unlike with Britain's reformed football hooligans during 1988's Summer of Love, we've yet to see the emergence of the "love thug" in hardcore hip hop. Perhaps the behavioral codes are too ingrained for rave's smiley-face to replace rap's "screwface"--the menacing scowl-sneer that signifies hip hop culture's taboo on showing your teeth.

Then again, it's early days yet, and Ecstasy is such a powerful drug that it's certain to have some affects on hip hop, both as a culture and as a music. Although jungle eventually adopted an anti-Ecstasy stance (favoring the "organic", herbal highs of marijuana over "chemicals"), as a form of music it could not have existed without its precursor genre, 1991-92 hardcore rave--whose sped up breakbeats and manic barrage of samples were basically "hip hop on E," rather than a mutant form of techno. Add Ecstasy to hip hop again, and the results could be as revolutionary as the emergence of jungle out of rave. Whether as a result of Ecstasy use or just an eerily prophetic prelude, there's been a flood of rap and R&B tracks that feature techno-like sounds and riffs over the last eighteen months: Ja Rule's "Holla Holla" with its snaking, writhing riff that sounds like nothing so much as a Roland 303 acid bassline; the staccato rave-style stabs in Destiny's Child's "Bugaboo," Ginuwine's "What's So Different," and Jay-Z's "Girls' Best Friend"; the house vamps and techno pulses in countless Cash Money tracks by Juvenile, B.G., Hot Boys and Lil Wayne, all produced by Mannie Fresh (who actually worked with Steve 'Silk' Hurley a decade ago).

Most recently Timbaland, who's talked about his fondness for electronica and groups like The Prodigy, has produced three tracks that positively drip with the influence of European Ecstasy culture, if not E itself. Aaliyah's smash hit "Try Again" rolls on a burbling Roland 303; the dirge-bass riff on Jay-Z's "Snoopy Track" makes it a rap "Dominator" or "Mentasm"; Nas featuring Ginuwine's "You Owe Me" has the slinky, lurching flow of 2-step garage. Indeed two-step ought to be the logical bridge between American "urban" (radio programmer code for black) music and house culture, since it is basically UK rave embracing and absorbing US R&B. 2-step garage is where the musical advances made during 10 years of collectively living at the cutting edge of rave's drug-technology interface ("caning it", in plain English slanguage) are now being folded back into the humanist, hypersexual pop sounds that ravers originally broke with to pursue manic sexless drug-noise (starting with acid house). As such 2-step could function for black Americans as a journey in the opposite direction, an acclimatisation phase before they get into Plastikman, Basement Jaxx, or The Mover. (Well, one can only dream, eh?). Actually, Armand Van Helden has been trying singlehandedly to be that demilitarized zone/interface between hip hop and house (he's obsessed with 1989 hip-house as this lost moment of possibility) but so far with zero impact in the US. His B-boy flirtations have even counted against him in the world of American deep house, where they don't want ruffnecks coming to the party (forgiveably, perhaps, given the rampant homophobia in hip hop). House music creeps in through the back door of Lil' Kim's new album The Notorious K.I.M., with tracks based on "French Kiss" by Lil Louis and "Break 4 Love' by Raze, and a pronounced Daft Punk-y flavor to "How Many Licks?"

Finally, OutKast's late 2000 release Stankovia is the first real hip hop example, overt and acknowledged by its creators, of a marked influence from rave music and Ecstasy. Big Boi and Andre 3000 go to raves in the Atlanta, Georgia area and even did field research in London clubs. They gave Stankonia faster b.p.m's than its easy-rolling predecessor Aquemini because "nowadays you got different drugs on the scene. X done hit the hood. It ain't chronic no more. They on some other speed-up type shit.... so that's why the tempo had to get a lot faster." The single "Bombs Over Baghdad" makes a botched if exciting stab at drum'n'bass (they're big fans of Photek) while "?" is a disorientating foray into the jungle: tangled breaks, chirruping synth-blurts, ravey riff-lets.

With the E'd up thugs and thuggettes reputedly drifting from the main floor of the Tunnel into the smaller house'n'techno room that it (god knows why) offers, it could be that the hip hop nation will turn onto electronic dance music big-time, finally ending rap's contempt for house music as mere gay disco. Sonically, the differences between the two forms of music have never been smaller---for instance, both techno and rap have been influenced recently by a revival of interest in Eighties electro. As for the drug's cultural impact.... Ecstasy's "loved up" vibe fits perfectly with hip hop's endless professions of loyalty for the crew, family, click, posse. E will only exaggerate this aspect of blood-brother solidarity and "thug love". But what about the hate side of rap's soul? Can Ecstasy lead to a truce in rap's symbolic warfare? Will "call-that-a-worldview?" couplets like "all I know is that bitches suck dick and niggas bleed" (The Lox) lose their appeal to hearts that no longer feel hard? What can be said safely is that Ecstasy had seemed like a drug that held no more surprises in terms of its cultural effects, given that the clubbing-and-raving industries efficiently channel the energy it catalyzes into tidy profits (eg Gatecrasher, whose slogan is "Market Leaders In Having-It Right Off Leisure Ware"--they might as well just put "Sponsored By Mitshubishi, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink" on the ads). But now that the drug has found its way to one of the few demographic and subcultural zones it had so far left untouched---African-American youth---it could be that Ecstasy has new tricks up its sleeves, new stories to tell, new revolutions to unfurl. (Just wait 'til it hits the dancehall community in Jamaica). Watch this space.....

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The effects of stress on college students

Everyday people experience some form of stress whether it be trying to arrive to work on time, meet a specific deadline, being stuck in rush hour traffic, etc. However, the stress college students suffer from in comparison to the majority of society is egregious. Stress has been generalized by the public as a social norm, but nothing about stress should be considered normal when the negative impact it has on college students is taken into account. College students face the everyday stress of typical citizens as well as the mental and physical stress accumulated by their workload, relationships, extra curriculars and so on. All of these countless stressors that college students deal with day to day lead to bad habits such as developing an eating disorder and substance abuse—essentially, a slippery slope. Stress can be displayed in the form of multiple eating disorders such as binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia. All three of these eating disorders can negativity impact a college student physically and mentally. In a set of articles from the Addiction center "College drug abuse'' written by Jeffrey Juergens, a graduate student from the University of Florida, states “College students as a group are considered high-risk for the development of eating disorders. In fact, up to 25 percent of all college students struggle with an eating disorder, according to a report by the National Institute of Mental Health. Alarmingly, that number is on the rise; one study showed the number of both men and women affected by an eating disorder has grown significantly over the past two decades.” Binge eating can be a contributing factor to obesity, as one would turn to food as a coping mechanism. A typical college student will have copious amounts of fast food restaurants within a short distance of them if they live in a college town or even on college campus. The fast food restaurants near them will most likely be those such as Mcdonalds, Taco bell, Wendy’s and Chick-fil-a which sell unhealthy, calorie-loaded, processed foods that have high refined carbohydrates, added sugars, and unhealthy fats such as French fries, burgers, and greasy friend chicken which does not provide enough nutrients for what the human body requires. This disorder creates an excess number of calories. On the other hand, those who struggle with Bulimia are not getting enough calories due to vomiting their food immediately after consumption. A number of stressful factors can contribute to this condition. Some being the workload and demands of being a college student but as well as having the mindset to fit into what society has approved of body image. Being fit and skinny is the expectation many students hope to achieve. The pressure from society to look a certain way can contribute to people taking extreme measures to achieve this, one of them being Bulimia. The danger of this disorder is that a student can appear to be healthy and eating normally, but behind closed doors any nutrients is disposed of. These social constructs could also lead to anorexia. Anorexia is where one eats little to nothing in order to achieve the body image they desire. Unfortunately, these people lose touch with how they actually look and become addicted to their eating habits. Not only do eating disorders develop as a result of stress, substance abuse can be derived from stress as well. College students with extreme amounts of stress tend to find unorthodox ways to cope. Instead of taking the time to find healthy ways to alleviate their stress, students tend to lean towards an easy source which provides a short term feeling of relief, known as drugs and alcohol. Though these easy and available coping mechanisms are short lived, they can have a long-term impact on the life of college student such as addiction. According to the article, “College drug abuse vs addiction” by David Hampton, a medical reviewer, he states “College students make up one of the largest groups of drug abusers nationwide. Young people (ages 18 to 24) are already at a heightened risk of addiction. Those who are enrolled in a full-time college program are twice as likely to abuse drugs and alcohol than those who don’t attend college.” The most abused substance by college students is alcohol. Considering the wide age range of students at each university, alcohol is easily accessible to both students of age and those underage as well. Alcohol is available at almost every college function such as bars, tailgates, and fraternity house parties—it seems nearly impossible to escape it. Therefore, college students face the stress derived from peer pressure to try alcohol which can be the opening of the door to addiction and binge drinking. “The most prevalent drug among college students has always been alcohol. Research suggests that 4 out of 5 students drink, and as many as 2 out of 5 binge drink (Hampton 1). Similar to binge eating, college students binge drink as a way to de-stress. This issue with using alcohol as a way to cope is its dangerous side effects and possibility of addiction. The end result of binge eating is obesity however, the end result of binge drinking is alcohol poisoning, liver failure, and other numerous health problems down the road. College students need to be more aware of how their so called “healthy” coping mechanisms actually affect them and their future in the long run. So what actual healthy alternatives should be available for college students?

The first step to being healthy is having a healthy diet. A healthy diet consists of fruits, vegetables, protein, and fiber and fast food restaurants tend to not have enough of these categories in their food options. There should be healthier restaurants near college campuses as well as a reduction in cost towards those healthier options for those who may not have a meal plan. Along with a healthy diet comes healthy habits as well such as cutting out alcohol and drugs. Alcohol should not be considered normal to have at every college event. It is illegal for those under the age of twenty-one to even consume alcohol, therefore underage drinking should be prohibited regardless of the event or who else is consuming it. For instance, students who are new to a university want to fit in in order to avoid social anxiety but are actually doing the opposite by involving themselves in Greek life fraternities and sororities which are creating pressure for these new-comers by enforcing bad habits such as drinking into their initiation rituals and events. As said by Jeffrey Juergens in his article “Drinking and Drug Abuse in Greek Life” “Fraternities, sororities and even athletic teams and other clubs may include some form of hazing as part of their membership initiation rituals. Hazing nearly always involves alcohol to some extent.” In the worst of cases, hazing can lead to alcohol poisoning, accidents and even death. Athletic clubs and Greek life are a huge stressor on college students and leads to even more stress by influencing its constituents to partake in bad habits which are disguised as healthy coping mechanisms. College students should be held accountable for their bad habits and learn to find healthier alternatives. Stress has many forms and also has many effects. Everday people experience some form of stress and cope with it in different ways than the next person but for college students, the stress seems to never end and the coping mechanisms seem to always be the same. College students face the stress of their classes, social groups, deadlines, etc. Students also tend to attempt to alleviate their stress in unhealthy ways which can result in eating disorders and substance abuse. Eating disorders can be displayed through binge eating high calorie, processed foods that do not provide the correct amount of nutritional value required for the human body to work in its entirety. Other eating disorders known as Bulimia and Anorexia can be displayed as eating little to nothing at all or disposing of food through the act of vomiting in turn, not providing one’s body with enough nutrients at all. College students stress to fit in to what society thinks the perfect body image is as well as fit in to what their social groups think it right in terms of ways to cope with stress. Students turn to drugs and alcohol for short term relief because it is easily accessible to them and their friends at any given college bar, tailgate, house party, and organization as well. On top of students looking for ways to manage their stress, there are those of the same demographic influencing them to partake in these activities which all can eventually lead to addiction, depression, and in worst cases death. College students need to be more aware of how their stress relievers are affecting them now and how they are going to affect their mental, emotional, and physical health as well as their career as a whole. To be aware of the effects is one thing but to take action is another. Students need to look for healthier options such as cutting their bad habits and replacing them with actual healthy coping mechanisms.

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Exclusive peak inside Hillsborough Castles £24million makeover

Some things are exactly what you would expect to find in the Queen’s drawing room — photographs of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren jostling for space on the Bechstein grand piano; and a Commonwealth souvenir, like the wagga wagga stick from New South Wales.

Then there’s a shelf of well-thumbed Agatha Christie thrillers tucked away above a row of earnest history books; a much-loved, if moth-eaten sofa; and a nice watercolour by the Prince of Wales.

You can certainly spot the Prince’s personal touch as you wander through the gardens, too.

However, as you start to take a closer look at this royal residence, things soon start to diverge from the usual royal pattern.

The only portrait of the Queen herself is an understated, one might almost say casual, one.

There is furniture carved out of wood plucked from a bog. And the photos in one of the main rooms in the house represent a rogues’ gallery of our times: Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, the Rev Ian Paisley, Tony Blair among them.

Hillsborough Castle, in Northern Ireland has homed the Secretary of State for NI since the 1970s, with many of them falling in love with the vast royal property

This is not only the Windsors’ least well-known residence, but also one of the most unusual (it is certainly the only one with a live-in politician in residence).

Now, following the completion of five years of restoration work, Hillsborough Castle has seldom looked quite as spectacular.

This week, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall came to give the final seal of royal approval to the £24 million renovations, an operation which will be offset by opening the house and grounds to the paying public for the first time. And the Mail has just been given an exclusive preview.

Hillsborough Castle has been the seat of royal power in Northern Ireland for almost a century. Yet, until now, you either had to be an invited guest or part of a pre-arranged group to set foot in this place with a turbulent past.

From the partition of the island of Ireland in the Twenties up until the early Seventies, this was the home of the Governor of Northern Ireland, when the Royal Family were not in residence.

Following Ulster’s descent into sectarian violence, that post was abolished and replaced by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

We have been through 20 of those since then, all of them given the run of this honey-coloured 18th-century pile when the Queen and her family have not been in residence.

The running of Hillsborough has been handed over to Historic Royal Palaces, the charitable body which runs self-funding royal premises such as Hampton Court, the Tower of London and Kensington Palace

The politicians have certainly enjoyed the royal trappings when the landlords have been absent. Labour’s Mo Mowlam — Northern Ireland Secretary at the time of the Good Friday Agreement — adored the place so much that she is still here; it was her final wish that some of her ashes should be scattered in the grounds.

Her successor, Peter Mandelson, loved his Hillsborough years, too, and turned his hand to a spot of interior design. Another devoted tenant was the Conservatives’ Tom King. The boat on the lake is still named after him.

Yet, throughout it all, this has always been first and foremost a royal home. There is no mistaking the real masters of the house, not least because the front door is called ‘The State Entrance’. Another clue: it leads through to the ‘Throne Room’.

And now it all feels more royal —and yet more homely — than ever following a change of management. It was David Cameron’s first Northern Irish Secretary, Owen Paterson, who concluded that Hillsborough Castle should be taken out of the hands of civil servants and entrusted to royal experts.

As a result, Hillsborough has been handed over to Historic Royal Palaces, the charitable body which runs self-funding royal premises such as Hampton Court, the Tower of London and Kensington Palace (though not Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, which are in full-time royal control).

Some things are exactly what you would expect to find in the Queen’s drawing room, including photographs of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren jostling for space on the Bechstein grand piano

As of Easter, this place will serve as a visitor attraction when the Royal Family are not there.

Slowly and methodically, HRP have set about restoring and rearranging everything inside and out, under the watchful eye of the royals, notably Prince Charles.

Among his ideas is the new pavilion in the walled garden, built by eight students of traditional building crafts from his Prince’s Foundation. As he himself observed in his speech to mark this week’s reopening, Hillsborough is ‘one of those places that many have heard of and yet few had ever visited’.

Ask those who remember it from the old days and it has been a hell of a transformation. ‘We haven’t tried to put it back to a particular point in time or gloss over certain moments in history,’ says chief curator, Christopher Warleigh-Lack. ‘This is about layers of history.’

So, while there might be a portrait of George III on the wall, the incongruous and hefty plastic handles on the French windows in the State Drawing Room will remain. They were needed to open the rocket-proof glass doors and bomb-proofing is regarded as an integral part of the history of this house.

Unlike, say, Windsor, Hillsborough Castle does not look like a castle. Though there is an old fort across the road, this is a Georgian country house built on classical lines.

This the ‘bog throne’, the beautiful chair presented to Queen Victoria at the 1851 Great Exhibition, made from wood taken from a nearby bog

All arrivals, including the Queen herself, enter through the State Entrance, overlooking the square and the court house of the pretty town of Hillsborough beyond.

Above the door hangs a vast pair of antlers from a long-extinct Irish elk. No one shot this monster. The antlers were actually found in a bog, just like the oak which produced the ‘bog throne’, the beautiful chair presented to Queen Victoria at the 1851 Great Exhibition.

The portraits which welcome you are a combination of royalty and of the family who built the place.

The Hills were local landowners and linen-makers who owned the village of Crumlin and renamed it after themselves when Charles II gave it borough status and a market. They rose to greater prominence through 18th-century politics, acquiring titles and a number estates. By 1922, the family decided they no longer had need of Hillsborough Castle and sold it to the British government for £24,000 (£1.5 million in today’s sums).

Ireland’s war of independence was over and the British government needed a new base from which to run the six counties of Northern Ireland. Hillsborough Castle would become the new Government House, seat of the Governor and of visiting royalty.

Details of all those visits can be found engraved on two shiny spades — used for tree-plantings — propped up by the fireplace.

The Queen first came here as a Princess in 1945, taking her first aeroplane flight en route . . .

We walk through to the Ante-Room, where the visitors’ book is currently open on the page saying ‘William’ and ‘Katherine’, recording February’s stay by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. We walk through to the Throne Room, location for investitures and royal receptions. Unlike the ‘bog throne’, the two real thrones are of the conventional red and gold variety and were installed in 1925.

The huge State Dining Room, where Mo Mowlam’s stepson was a keen roller skater in New Labour days, includes a painting of Lord Arthur Hill — ‘the fattest man in the British Army’. Next door, we find the dark, moody Red Room.

Now used for intimate dinners, it is crammed with works of art from the Royal Collection, including Prince Albert’s collection of 40 miniature portraits of monarchs and their consorts.

The modern political story is also told here through a series of photographs of all the main players in the Good Friday Agreement, including two men whose comrades spent years trying to kill the occupants of this house. Looking at this photo of a cheery Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness sitting on a bench in the garden, you might imagine they were a couple of happy daytrippers.

The curators say they have tried to consult every strand of Northern Irish life, including nationalists and Sinn Fein, to ask what they would expect to see on display. ‘We wanted to find out what people might regard as a barrier to entry,’ says Christopher Warleigh-Lack.

So, the portrait of William of Orange is not the usual one of the victorious Protestant King Billy astride a horse at the Battle of the Boyne. Instead, it shows him as a boy. Elsewhere, 18th and 19th-century cartoons poking fun at the Irish hang alongside Irish cartoons poking fun at the British. Some may complain the displays are over-sensitive.

I can see no traditional portraits of the Queen in full regal mode, as you might find in an embassy. Tucked away in a small sitting room called Lady Grey’s Study is a 1985 portrait of the monarch in ordinary day dress by the Irish-Spanish painter, Rodrigo Moynihan.

It hangs alongside a matching portrait of Prince Philip in casual clothes. Apparently, someone has even complained that these are ‘too imperial’. The State Drawing Room is striking for its lack of Old Masters and royal portraits.

Instead, it is full of works by the favourite Irish artists of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales. In any stately home, the bedrooms are always of great interest. The royal ones remain strictly off-limits, but I am allowed to see where successive politicians would rest their troubled heads.

Nestled away inside the grounds is the Lime Tree Walk, which leads up to Lady Alice’s temple. The small temple was originally given as a wedding gift to Lady Alice Hill by her brother the 5th Marquess of Downshire in 1867

Since a separate annexe has just been built for the political residents, the old Northern Irish Secretary’s suite will soon be opened to the public. They will see the bathroom where Mo Mowlam frequently let the bath overflow (to the frustration of the maintenance team).

They will also see the master bedroom redesigned by Peter (now Lord) Mandelson during his term in office. With a large bed and chaise longue in olive green offset by beige wall coverings, the Mandelson boudoir is the only room in the house with views to the north and south.

Mr Mandelson was a particularly hands-on tenant, redecorating some of the Royal Household rooms along the royal corridor. With rose-patterned wallpaper, stripped-oak floors and contemporary chrome fittings in the bathrooms, there is a boutique hotel feel to this former ancestral pile.

Out in the grounds, which host an annual garden party for 2,000 of the great and good of Ulster, the change is even more pronounced.

Top garden designers Catherine FitzGerald (married to actor Dominic West) and Andrew Lutyens have rejuvenated Hillsborough’s 100 acres with new borders, parterres and 33,000 bulbs along one avenue alone.

A jungle of weeds and trees hiding an old bog has been reclaimed as a ‘lost garden’ with duckboard trails and stepping stones for children.

Most impressive of all has been the rebirth of the magnificent four-acre walled garden. This was a tip until Mo Mowlam installed some sheep to eat the undergrowth. It remained little more than a field, however.

Now, it is completely reborn with herb gardens, orchards and vegetable patches arranged around a new central fountain.

The produce will be served up in the new visitor centre next door. In pride of place is the Prince of Wales’s new pavilion. Having enjoyed great success in resurrecting his walled gardens at Highgrove and Dumfries House, he has high hopes for Hillsborough, too.

The rose beds in Lady Granville’s Garden — created by the Queen Mother’s sister, wife of a former Governor — have also had a new lease of life.

From Maundy Thursday, all this will be opened up to the general public (except when royals are in residence). Themed tours — including royal ones, political ones and even an ‘LGBT tour’ devoted to Hillsborough’s gay past — will be on offer. More than 200,000 people are expected this year alone.

For the moment, Northern Ireland’s most successful tourist attractions remain the Titanic museum and the film locations for the blockbuster series, Game of Thrones. How much longer, though, before these are overtaken by the real thing?

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Latest Interior Design Trends: 8 Inspiring Mood Boards

Latest Interior Design Trends in Hardware: 8 Inspiring Mood Boards

Last year, we revealed mood boards based on new interior design trends in hardware tones and finishes and how they’re combined to create specific styles—check out how we’ve styled latest interior design trends in hardware finishes, tile and paint to complete finished looks you can apply anywhere in your home.

The knobs, handles, drawer pulls in a room–often an overlooked and last touch in a renovation—pull the entire look of a room together. And, replacing your hardware easily freshens up the look of your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom. It can even boost your curb appeal!

Read on to find paint colors, tile selections and even house numbers, too, for these new interior design trends and how to apply these design tips throughout your home, inside or out.

Soft and Organic

We mixed the warm undertones of champagne with the cool tones of antique brass and brushed nickel to create soft and organic vibes. These metals are balanced with earthy decor pieces and a muted color pallet so that one metal doesn’t dominate the other. The soft forms and shapes of the hardware stay consistent with angles, edges and lines, which is accentuated by the floral patterns in the linen. Consider adding organic decor and accent pieces, and splashes of color with fresh greenery to tie this look together.

Seen in This Mood Board

Hickory Hardware Adorno 2-11/16 in. Satin-Nickel Ring Pull

Kwikset Hancock Antique Brass

Pfister Brea 4-in. Centerset Single Handle Faucet in Brushed Nickel

Amerock St. Vincent 3-3/4 in Center Golden Champagne Cabinet Pull

Pfister Brea Towel Ring in Brushed Nickel

Corso Italia Impero Volaka 12 in. x 24 in. Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile

Behr Doeskin Gray N200-2

MSI Whisper White 3 in. x 6 in. Handcrafted Glazed Ceramic Wall Tile

LG Hausys HI-MACS 2 in. x 2 in. Solid Surface Countertop Sample in Strato Cloud

New Traditional

Champagne bronze—a new take on traditional bronze fixtures—seen in Delta’s Dryden collection can be used throughout many different decor styles, including modern. Re-do your whole room with champagne bronze hardware for an elegant look. Or, simply add in some of the warmth of champagne bronze to update and balance cooler polished nickel or matte black hardware. Pair it with organic-shaped tile, like MSI’s marble mosaic, and natural wood flooring for a fresh take on a traditional look.

Seen in This Mood Board

Dryden 8 in Widespread 2 Handle Bathroom Faucet in Champagne Bronze

Dryden Single Robe Hooke in Champagne Bronze

Liberty Everly 3 in. Champagne Bronze Cabinet Pull

Liberty Everly 1-1/8 in Champagne Bronze Cabinet Knob

Martha Stewart Living Faceted 3 in. Polished Nickel Cabinet Cup Pull

Schlage Plymouth Matte Black Entry Door Knob with Camelot Trim

Pergo Outlast + Vintage Pewter Oak 10 mm x 7 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. Laminate Flooring

MSI Cecily 11 x 13 in. x 10 mm Polished Marble Mesh-Mounted Mosaic Tile

Merola Tile Adagio Glossy White Porcelain Mosaic Tile

Silestone Quartz in Calacatta Gold

Behr Taupe Tease N210-1

Lucite and Glass

Cool, crystal-clear Lucite is currently topping our designers hot list. This interior design trend has taken interior design by storm, especially in furniture. Lucite’s light reflective surface can add glam to any room. Add a little bit of depth to the room with hints of metal in your finishes, like a stainless steel faucet, and the playful shapes of mermaid tiles.

Seen in This Mood Board

Delta Zura Single Hole Single-Handle Bathroom Faucet with Metal Drain Assembly in Stainless Steel

Liberty Polished Nickel and Clear Acrylic Cabinet Bar Knob

Liberty Polished Nickel and Clear Acrylic Bar Pull

Schlage Custom Alexandria Satin Nickel Collins Trim Combined Interior Door Knob

Behr #N440-1 Streetwise

Liberty 1 7/8 in. Polished Nickel and Clear Acrylic Hexagon Cabinet Knob

Jeffrey Court Beverly Blue Fan 8 3/4 x 13 in. x 8 mm Ceramic Mosaic Tile

Jeffrey Court Beverly Blue 4 x 12 in. Ceramic Wall Tile

Merola Tile Classico Carrara Hexagon 7 x 8 in. Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile

Mixed Materials and Finishes

A hot interior design trend in 2017 was mixing metals. This year, we’ve gone even further and mixed materials, too. Try adding in different wood tones, mixed tiles, mixed metals and greenery for an eclectic look. Everything goes together now. While we suggested following a couple of simple rules last year, eclectic, mix-and-match and breaking the rules are the new norm. Make up your own unique style by following your own rules, but try to keep it balanced and intentional.

Seen in This Mood Board

Hampton Bay Door Bell Push Button Mediterranean Bronze

Liberty 1 1/2 in. Satin Nickel with Faux Capiz Internet Cabinet Knob

Pfister Pasadena Double Robe Hook in Midnight Chrome

Liberty Luxe Square Dual Tone Cocoa Bronze and Satin Nickel Cabinet Pull

Belleview Satin Nickel Single Cylinder Door Handleset with Polo Knob Featuring SmartKey

Architectural Mailboxes 5 in. Antique Brass Floating House Number 4

Behr #N230-1 Castle Beige

Urban Loft Interlocking 12 x 12 in. x 4 mm Glass Stone Metal Mesh-Mounted Mosaic Tile

Armstrong American Vintage Scrape Wolf Run Hardwood Flooring

Farmhouse

All white farmhouse kitchens are a thing of the past, replaced by rich and wooden tones.

This look takes the best of rustic with antique white subway tile, adds a touch of industrial with aged Venetian bronze hardware while incorporating the sleek elegance of modern through Behr’s Mars Red paint. The shapes and lines of the knobs and drawer pulls are all fairly simple, which helps keep the look understated and approachable. This also leaves some decorative space for a few accents that have an organic, natural texture or feel.

Seen in This Mood Board

Kwikset Tustin Venetian Bronze Passage Hall/Closet Door Lever

Liberty Brightened Opulence Venetian Bronze with Copper Highlights Cabinet Knob

Liberty Venetian Bronze with Copper Highlights Rectangular Bin Pull

Montague Metal Products 5 1/4 in. Aluminum Script House Number Eight

Pfister Ashfield 4 in. Centerset Single-Handle Bathroom Faucet in Tuscan Bronze

Kwikset Z-Wave SmartCode 910 Venetian Bronze Single Cylinder Electronic Deadbolt Featuring SmartKey

Pfister Towel Ring Kit in Tuscan Bronze

Liberty Southampton Venetian Bronze in Copper Highlights

Behr Mars Red PPU2-11

Marazzi Montagna Wood Vintage Chic 6 x 24 in. Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile

MSI Antique White 4 x 12 in. Handcrafted Glazed Ceramic Wall Tile

Bold Statement

All white everything is out. Rich and vibrant hues are in, especially when paired with bold prints. Inject pops of bold color and prints into decorative elements like tile, paint and tie the look together with sophisticated champagne bronze hardware and fixtures.

Seen in This Mood Board

Delta Cassidy Tub and Shower Faucet Metal Cross Handle in Champagne Bronze

Delta Cassidy 8 in. Widespread 2-Handle Bathroom Faucet with Metal Drain Assembly in Champagne Bronze

Schlage 4 in. Bright Brass Classic House Number 8

Delta Addison TempAssure 17T Series 1-Handle Shower Faucet Trim Kit Only in Champagne Bronze

Delta Cassidy Open Towel Ring in Champagne Bronze

Liberty 3 in. Dual Finish Champagne Bronze with Flat Black Bar Cabinet Pull

MSI Fiandra Khaki 12 x 24 in. Glazed Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile

Jeffery Court Moonrock 9.875 x 11 ½ in. x 8 mm Porcelain Mosaic Tile

Merola Tile Egeo Naxos 9 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile

Behr MQ1-50 Art Deco Pink

Behr Meteorological N430-6

Matte Black

Last year, matte black was all the rage—and honestly, not much has changed. There’s no wonder why, either. Not only is it the most popular finish for outdoors, it’s made its way inside, and can easily pair with almost any other finish. It’s super versatile and works with so many decor styles, ranging from modern to coastal. Here, the beach board wood flooring, botanical Merola and vintage-style fretwork tiles blend a modern yet fresh and industrial look without overwhelming the senses.

Seen in This Mood Board

Pfister Venturi 4 in. Centerset Single-Handle Bathroom Faucet in Matte Black

Pfister Venturi Single Robe Hook in Matte Black

Liberty Modern Geometric 1 1/32 in. Flat Black Cabinet Knob

Liberty 3 in. Flat Black Beveled Drawer Pull

Kwikset Halifax Square Iron Black Privacy Bed/Bath Door Lever

Pfister Venturi 3-Piece Bath Accessory in Matte Black

Malibu Wide Plank French Oak Rincon

Merola Tile Area 15 Botanic Black 6 x 6 in. Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile

Behr #PPU26-21 Overcast

MSI Retro Fretwork 12 x 12 in. x 10 mm Polished Marble Mesh-Mounted Mosaic Tile

Gold Finishes

Incorporate and mix warm and subtle gold finishes like champagne bronze, brushed gold and brass for an elevated look. Then, for retro-inspired glam, add in dramatic black marble to accentuate golden tones. Here, we’ve paired gold hues with Tangier green mosaic tile to saturate the senses and layered in white to evoke a clean inviting look that’s both airy and luxurious.

Seen in This Mood Board

Liberty Rectangular Platform 3/4 in. Bayview Brass Cabinet Knob

Liberty External Campaign 3 in. Bayview Brass Cabinet Pull

Pfister Venturi Brushed Gold Faucet

Liberty 4 3/8 in. Champagne Bronze Beveled Square Hook

Kwikset Tylo Polished Brass Half-Dummy Door Knob

Architectural Mailboxes 4 in. Polished Brass Floating House Number

Liberty 12 in. Bayview Brass Simply Geometric Drawer Pull

Amerock Arrondi Towel Ring in Brushed Bronze/Golden Champagne

Behr #HDC-MD-06 Nano White

Jeff Lewis 6 in. x 12 in. Nero Marquina Polished Marble Field Wall Tile

Jeff Lewis Laurel Brass 8.625 x 15.125 in. x 9 mm Stone and Metal Mosaic Tile

Merola Tile Hudson Tangier Emerald 12 3/8 x 12 1/2 in. x 5 mm Porcelain Mosaic Tile

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9416 Hampton Oaks Lane Charlotte NC 28270 | Home for Sale

Light-flooded turnkey ranch home in Charlotte that celebrates space and landscape

Enjoy the privacy and retreat offered by this move-in ready, executive ranch style family home that showcases space and modern amenities in every space and corner.

Nestled on 1.56 acres of wooded land, this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathrooms, 3,748 square foot Charlotte home delivers the easy living you've been dreaming of.

You'll love its expansive front yard with mature trees, tree-lined driveway and scenic drive through its gorgeous neighborhood.

The previous owners have also ensured that this home is well-maintained. Its exteriors were painted in 2016 and the interior painted in 2017. The ceiling skylight in the breakfast room and sunroom were also replaced by the previous owners.

This real estate property offers the peace, retreat, and serenity you want, all wrapped up in a gorgeous package of space and light.

As one of the most beautiful homes in Providence Plantation, the new owners will surely appreciate all the amenities this home has.

Providence Plantation is a highly sought-after subdivision 11 miles south of uptown Charlotte.

This community is prominent for its large lot cuts, beautiful homes, excellent schools and various amenities. On top of it all, this neighborhood is known for its peace and proximity to shopping and uptown.

From this home, there are great schools, both public and private, within a four-mile radius.

An interior that radiates warmth and elegance

Exposed bricks on the portico entrance add character to this stunning home.

Step inside the elegant front door and into an amply sized foyer flooded with natural light. High ceilings, neutral-toned walls, and skylights welcome you into this gorgeous abode.

The polished hardwood floor enhances the warmth and elegance of this spacious interior.

To the left side of the foyer is a french door that opens to the large gourmet eat-in kitchen of this Charlotte real estate.

This kitchen is designed to impress! It features immaculate countertops, a huge center island, stainless steel appliances like the GE profile gas stove and oven bought in 2008, a pantry, and loads of storage spaces.

Under counter lights, recessed lighting and imported Italian hand-blown glass lights above add sophistication and style, creating a magazine-page worthy kitchen.

Across the kitchen is a good-sized space for a breakfast nook. There's also a chef's built-in desk at the corner, a great spot for planning meals and inspiring party-worthy meals.

Meal times become more exciting when you are surrounded by great food and the wonderful company of friends.

For large gatherings and celebrations, the formal dining room of this home is the right space.

Large windows let light stream into this elegant dining room that can comfortably fit a six-person dining table and chairs.

Past the French doors, the hallway opens to a fabulously spaced living room with vaulted ceilings, exposed beams and a wood burning fireplace with a towering brick mantle.

Moroccan style panels add charm and character to this already stunning room.

This spacious living area is a great spot for rest and relaxation. Feel your stress drain away as you enjoy the warmth of the fireplace while relaxing on the sofa.

If you love to entertain, this vast living room will easily be your guest’s favorite space.

Adjacent to the living room is a beautiful sunroom with custom glass door insert and lots of windows overlooking the private backyard. Two skylights along with the glass windows allow plenty of natural light in this room.

This sunroom is the perfect place to entertain indoors at any season.

In spring and summer, you have a wonderful view of the thick lush foliage of the deep woods. Fall brings an array of warm colors from yellow to red, and the winter view offers a sense of calm and serenity.

More living spaces to enjoy!

Another special feature of this fantastic home for sale in Charlotte is its spacious den.

If there is a room in this house specially designed for your guests, this is it! It features vaulted ceiling, large windows, a wood burning fireplace, and a custom full bar and sink, perfect for entertaining.

Need a home office? This home has one, and its ready for you and your furniture. Carpet floors complement the neutral-toned walls, giving you that professional office look.

A master suite with a rustic feel

Need a private sanctuary? You’ll love what this home offers.

The master bedroom is large and has vaulted ceilings with exposed beams and a walk-in closet with California style organizers. Large windows overlook the greenery, giving you a great view every morning.

Set with the most comfortable bed, it will deliver you restful nights and great sleep.

The master bathroom is just as lovely with its granite counters, heated floors, shower with multi jets and garden soaking tub with jets.

Look forward to indulging in some self-pampering at the end of the day in this luxurious bathroom that can rival a five-star hotel.

A large deck overlooking a private backyard

A great home wouldn’t be complete without a fantastic outdoor retreat, and this Charlotte home delivers!

This vast deck overlooks the large spacious flat backyard bordered with trees, giving you the privacy you want.

If you love having guests over, an outdoor barbecue grill would be a wonderful addition to this deck.

Host family gatherings and holiday parties on this fabulously spaced backyard.

This Charlotte property offers the suburban haven you are looking for. Enjoy excellent location, privacy, and space for ONLY $630,000.

Don’t miss the Open House on May 5, 2018 at 2-4PM SATURDAY, and May 12, 2018 at 12-2pm SATURDAY.

This is your chance to own one of the best homes in the highly desirable Providence Plantation!

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A NEUTRAL AND WARM LIVING ROOM – THE FINAL REVEAL

I don’t often get to do final reveals here, unless it’s for my own home. Most of my clients just want ideas, moodboards and shopping lists, and they get on with it themselves. Which is nice, but it means that I don’t always get to see the final room, or if I do it’s quite a time later and the scheme has morphed into something else entirely. So I’m really pleased that in the case of this neutral and warm living room I was able to photograph the end result, and that it is very close to the moodboard I created just under a year ago.

To recap, the room was just as the builders had left it with magnolia walls and beige carpet. My lovely clients (who are also busy in the blogging world) wanted a neutral scheme and had already fallen in love with the wallpaper that is now on one of the walls. But before all of this could be put in place the bones of the room were improved. The fitted carpet was replaced with engineered hardwood, which is beautiful and has completely changed the room. Then the two doors – one from the hall and one into the kitchen – were replaced with half-glazed versions in the same style. This was really to improve light-flow into the windowless hall but they have also improved the living room too. You can now see out into the hall and the two spaces are better visually connected.

As already mentioned, one wall was covered in mirrored wallpaper and the other three were painted in a mid to darkish brown. I have to give a big shout out to the BF here as he is the one who expertly papered and painted the room. We make an excellent team! Finally the silk for the curtains was chosen in a colour that would blend in with the walls. In fact the vertical blinds at the french windows and the central light fitting were the only two things that remained of the original room.

It’s a space that’s mainly used for watching TV and relaxing in the evenings so comfort was key, and as neutral schemes can sometimes be quite bland I included lots of texture for added interest. The furniture was also chosen with ‘added interest’ in mind. The sofas are plump but elegant in style, as befits something that is going with that luxurious wallpaper. The coffee table has a marble top and curvaceous details on the base, and the TV unit and side tables have Moroccan inspired carvings with mirrors behind. With no pattern appearing anywhere in the room, it was necessary to chose decorative finishes where we could.

To accessorise, silver accents were chosen. Mainly because the wallpaper is silver foiled but also because silver has the effect of lifting the scheme and bouncing light around the room. Even some of the cushions have a silver metallic pattern. The artwork over one of the sofas was chosen in shades to complement the room and a huge rusted metal clock adorns the wall above the other sofa.

Of course, one or two things changed along the way, but it’s pretty much how I saw it in my mind. And I have to say I’m pretty pleased with it. And so are the clients. They say that it now feels more like home and that they use it much more. I can’t ask more than that.

The Details

This list does contain affiliate links. If you decide to buy anything featured you won’t pay any more, but Dear Designer’s will receive a small commission to help keep this blog up and running.

The foil backed wallpaper featuring a bevelled mirror effect is from Cole and Son.

The coffee table with a natural marble stone top is from Atkin and Thyme.

The two sofas and armchair are from the Penryn range at John Lewis.

The Hampton Beach Marrakesh washed ash and glass TV media unit is from Woodpecker Interiors.

The two side tables are from Wayfair.

The rug is from Modern Rugs UK.

The two table lamps are from Orchid Furniture.

The giant cut-out ironwork clock is from Cox and Cox.

All of the cushions are from West Elm.

All of the prints are from Desenio.

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During last three-year of exploring New Brunswick, I have stumbled upon locations of known Loyalist assembly. I initially noticed graveyards had bold signage, identifying United Empire Loyalist burial grounds. I didn’t quiet get the importance of it.

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The Loyalists, sounds like a long historical story that I am not getting into, except for this sound bite-After the American Revolution, more than 100,000 former residence of the 13 colonies, that remained loyal to Britain, where virtually homeless. Their property and possessions confiscated, they were bullied and persecuted by former friends and neighbors that sided wi,th the Rebels.

With the promise of land grants and safe passage, they took what they could carry, boarded on British ships and headed for safety within the British Territories. Nova Scotia at the time, included all the land that is presently New Brunswick, received an influx of these eclectic refugees.

It wasn’t until this summer, when I went to Hampton, to write about the anniversary of the bill of Human Rights. please read; Humanity Found in Hampton, NB , That I was handed a brochure called The Loyalist Route. A map identifying places of significant Loyalist influence and culture, along the Lower Saint John River Passage.

If its tourism related, I’m on it. The map identifies 24 locations; most are graveyards and churches but I have thrown in a few surprises, I found while following the trail. Here they are:

1. Fort Howe, Magazine Street. Saint John

Plaque states; Late 1777 Majour Gilfred Studholm hurriedly fortified this ridge over looking the mouth of the Saint John River. Throughout the remainder of the American Revolutionary war, the presence of Fort Howe, its guns and garrison guarded the settlement at the river mouth from Attack by American Privateers.

replica Canon protecting Saint John Harbour from fort Howe

Fort How Block House

Fort Howe New Brunswick National Historic Plaque

2. Loyalist House, 120 Union Street, Saint John.

This house built by Loyalist David Daniel Merritt is one of the oldest building in Saint John. The Merritt family resided in it for more than 150 years. It luckily survived several devastating fires that destroyed much of old saint John.

Loyalist house Saint John NB. The foundation is built right into the rock.

3. Loyalist Burial Ground, corner of King and Sydney. Saint John, NB, The plaque below reads:

Saint John’s original burial ground was established on this site shortly after the landing of the United Empire Loyalists in 1783. After its closure as a cemetery in 1848, the site became a memorial garden with tree-lined walkways and flower beds….

Old Burial ground Saint John

Old Burial Ground Saint John

4. Trinity Anglican Church, 115 Charlotte Street, Saint John

The parish church established by the Loyalists when they arrived. The great Saint John fire of 1877, destroyed the original Trinity Church, and most of the city. Housed inside is the original coat of arms. Edward Winslow removed it from Boston to prevent it from falling into Rebel hands.

5 Ketchum House. Number 5 and 6 are included as historic places in my story Hampton, New Brunswick Part 2

The Ketchum House a Loyalist home 1301 Main Street Hampton, a bit over grown and run down

6. St Paul’s Anglican Church and Graveyard. 486 route Kennebecasis river Road, Hampton. The land this church sits on was donated by two Loyalist families, the DeMilles and the Crawfords.

St Paul’s Anglican Church

St Pauls Anglican church and Graveyard United Empire Loyalist Burial Site, and sage Bud Pattern on quilt trail

7. Trinity Anglican Church 845 Kingston, New Brunswick

Plaque states:

The trinity Anglican Church , the oldest Anglican Church in New Brunswick, was built-in 1789 by newly settled United Empire Loyalists……

United Empire Loyalist Burial Site Trinity Anglican Church. Kingston, New Brunswick

National Historic Plaque Trinity Anglican Church, Kingston New Brunswick

Trinity Anglican Church Kingston, New Brunswick

8. Harding Point at Westfield Grand Bay Ferry landing.

There is a building at Hardening Point that is significant, located inside the campground. However, when you turn the corner towards it, you land directly in the line up for the ferry crossing the Saint John River. The ferry has been loading each time I am here, so I chose to board rather than wait for the next one. I did stop at the cemetery, so I wouldn’t come away with just a road sign.

Hardening Point Landing Road

9. Mount Hope Farm National and Provincial Historic Site. One of my favourites. To read more about this historic home, please check out Westfield to Grand Bay, The Best Of

Provincial Historic Site Mount Hope Farm 690 Nerepis Road Westfield, NB Canada

10. Major John Coffin Grave. St Peter’s Cemetery Route 102 Woodsmans Point It was hidden behind the tree trunk his son is resting beside him. There is a Royal Canadian Legion cross on the grave.

General J coffin and son grave St Peters Cemetery

11. St Paul’s Anglican Church, Oak Point Branch Road, Oak Point. This church is surrounded by a grave yard. The ones on the left are very old and I couldn’t read the inscription. The plaque on the door is a commemoration from 1967, stating the church haves been a house of worship in the community for over a hundred plus years.

Oak Point Church Loyalist and Plaque

12. St Stephen’s Anglican Church Route 102 Queenston, New Brunswick. Colonel Richard Hewitt and his family are buried here. He loved this area so much he was the spearhead for the formation of this church, his house was beside it.

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13 Elm Hill. Elm Hill Road North of Pleasant Villa, Route 102.

Many of the free black Loyalist arrived in New Brunswick and settled in Elm Hill. Descendant of the original black Loyalists still reside here today.

Community of Elm Hill was settled by Black Loyalist. many Of the Black Loyalist descendants, call the community of Elm Hill home.

14 The Village of Gagetown

Plaque states:

Gagetown takes its name from General Thomas Gage, the British Military commander in North America in 1765, who shared in a 20,000 acre land grand in the area. Settlement was slow until the arrival of the Loyalist refugees in 1783……

Gagetown town Grant Loyalist settlement

15 Jemseg Ferry ferry road, The ferry was taken out of service several years ago and I have gone to both sides of the river in search of some sort of plaque or landmark. I have found neither. But it is an excellent place to see Osprey, Ducks, and various birds and turtles.

Osprey Jemseg ferry road

16 Fanjoys Point Cemetery, Route 105, I came across a Waterborough Baptist Cemetery. I did find some FanJoy sir name on head stones. Then I found Fanjoy Point Road and followed it to a lovely piece of land with a beacon light and herring cloud patterned sky. I did not located a cemetery but it was picturesque.

Fan Joy Point light

Farewell to Mary Fanjoy in Baptist Cemetery route 105

cloud formation over FanJoy Point

17 Sheffield United Church My friend from My NewBrunswick covered this place well

18 Fort Hughes Hazen Park Oromocto. This replicate of the original blockhouse that was here shows two soldiers, the one on the left was a Royal Fencible American soldier in garrison during the American Revolutionary War. The other a French forces soldier. Please follow my story titled 10 Things You Didn’t Know; Oromocto, NB. to know more.

Fort Hughes Hazen Park Oromocto

19 Loyalist Encampment and Cemetery, Morrell Park Fredericton. The Loyalist that came up river to claim their land grant close to Fredericton, were still in tents when the early winter settled in. Many suffered greatly some died of hunger and cold. Follow the Salamanca trail for a short walk to find the St Anne Point Loyalist cemetery. For further reading on #19 #20, 21, and 22 and other Loyalist home around Fredericton, please see my story. My Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Loyalist Encampment and cemetery Morrell Park

Loyalist cemetery Morell Park

20 Odell House 808 Brunswick Street, Fredericton

This was the home of Hon. Jonathan Odell, the first Provincial Secretary and an accomplished minister, doctor and writer. This home is a designated Fredericton Heritage trust home, build around 1785.

Johnathan Odell Home. 808 Brunswick New England Style

21 Old Burial Ground Fredericton. Many of the prominent Loyalist citizens are buried here; Captain Saunders and Lieutenant Samuel Denny Street to name two.

Old Burial Ground Fredericton New Brunswick 396 Brunswick at Carleton street

22 York-Sunbury Museum Officers Square Fredericton has an extensive collection of Loyalist artifacts. To see more please visit: Fredericton Regional Museum

23 Old Government House 51 Woodstock Road, Fredericton.This building replaces its predecessor, which was destroyed by fire in 1825. The Government house was the resident for the Lieutenant Governor of the new province of New Brunswick. Starting with Sir Thomas Carleton,upon the arrival of the Loyalist in 1784

24 Village of Kings Landing Historical Settlement, not an actual town but a replica of the daily life from the Loyalist times up to 1910. I had a lovely horse and buggy ride and got to gossip with the ” locals,” actors portraying real people who lived in the time period. Eight original Loyalist homes were moved here and restored. Historic buildings that would have been underwater with the damning of the saint John River.

Kings Land. New Brunswick. Aaron McKenzie Fraser – photographer – http://www.amfraser.com

With my Loyalist Route complete. I hope you enjoyed it. I wish you happy travels and Happy Holidays from Maritime Mac.

Me on the old Jemseq river Bridge. Saint John Lower River Passage summer 2016

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1604 Pike Dr, Forney, TX

Price: $276245+

This Single-Family Home located at 1604 Pike Drive, Forney, TX is currently for sale. This property is listed by Horizon for $276,245. 1604 Pike Dr has 4 beds, 2 baths, and approximately 2,233 square feet. The price per square foot is $124. 1604 Pike Dr is in the 75126 ZIP code in Forney, TX.

1014 Dunhill Ln, Forney, TX

Price: $288500

Features abound in this well-maintained home in Forney’s premier neighborhood, Devonshire. A bright and open floor plan with a grand 2-story entrance with gorgeous wood floors stretching past the dining room. Upgrades in this home include expanded covered porch, outdoor and indoor speaker wiring throughout the home, thicker carpet padding, extended wood floors, extended garage to fit full size truck, 8′ privacy fence. Community features include beautiful pool, kiddie pool, clubhouse, amphitheater, entertaining area, playground, walking paths and parks.

1035 Canterbury Ln, Forney, TX

Price: $309900

beautiful resale in master planned devonshire. this 4 bed 2.5 bath with office home features an open floor plan concept. all of the bedrooms are located on the main level with a media room and bathroom located on the second level. this home features granite counter tops,stainless steel appliances, upgraded cabinets, large backyard and much,much more! schedule your private showing today!

5090 Royal Spgs, Forney, TX

Price: $233990

Come see this beautiful new Hampton Home in Windmill Farms! Enjoy the large ceilings in the master bedroom to give it a very open feel. The kitchen offers large islands that make it perfect for entertaining. Schedule a showing today!

1158 Woods Rd, Forney, TX

Price: $294900

Gorgeous home invites you into this 5 bedroom 3 bath home; game room; private study & more; massive living room w-corner fp; open kitchen w-island, granite countertops, coffer bar, tons of cabinets; master suite has bay windows, vaulted ceilings, sitting area, & master bathroom w-sep shower, garden tub, large walk in closet; game room & 3 full bedrooms upstairs; additional bedroom downstairs; private study at front of home; coffee bar has custom cabinets that leads into the kitchen; covered front porch for morning coffee; covered back porch for sitting and watching the kids play in the privacy of the backyard.

1116 Cumberland Dr, Forney, TX

Price: $165000

This beautiful 1548 sf home has been well maintained while having an open kitchen overlooking the living room. It has wood floors in the living room, and new carpet in the bedrooms other upgrades include new interior and exterior paint, as well as a new roof. It has large spacious bedrooms and a second living area that can be a study or playroom. This home is ready for you to move into and start entertaining.

1038 Edgefield Ln, Forney, TX

Price: $300000

Stunning brick and stone accentuates the exterior on this lovely 4 Bedroom,3.5 bath home. Kitchen has dark cabinetry, granite counter tops, stainless gas appliances and breakfast bar. Large family room features a beautiful stone fireplace with gas logs and beamed ceiling. Office directly off of foyer could be used as 5th bedroom. Covered rear patio has outdoor kitchen with grill, granite counter top and refrigerator. Wet bar tucked away under stairwell. Large Master features lovely ceiling details and bank of windows overlooking back yard. A beautifully tiled master bath has soaking tub , glassed shower, large double vanity and walk in closet. Energy efficient home with vinyl windows and radiant barrier.

2128 Pecan Ridge Dr, Forney, TX

Price: $259000

Gorgeous & updated inside & out. 5 bedroom 2.5 bath home boasts wood floors in the master bedroom & main living areas. Chair railings in study-den, formal dining room & master bedroom. Soaring vaulted ceilings & fireplace in the living room. Granite, SS updated appliances, double oven & great counter space in the eat-in kitchen. Water filtration system with reverse osmosis is included. Spacious master bedroom & master bath with a generous WIC. Fantastic loft or gameroom upstairs & 3 bedrooms. Walk outside to the backyard & enjoy Texas living at it’s finest with a covered outdoor kitchen , gas fire pit & custom heated pool & spa! Pool has a new DE Filter & Variable Speed pump & LED lighting throughout the home.

1042 White Porch Ave, Forney, TX

Price: $299900

Your Dream Home in Fox Hollow * Stunning Hardwoods Grace the Formal Dining, Family Room, Study, Game-room and All Bedrooms * Island Kitchen has Gorgeous Granite, Large Pantry, Gas Stove Top and Tons of Cabinets * Spacious Master Suite Boasts Separate Vanities, Shower & Separate Garden Tub, and Large WI Closet * Family Room has Soaring Ceilings, A Wall of Windows, and a Beautiful Fireplace with Gas Logs * Upstairs Consists of a Game-room, Four Bedrooms, and Two Full Baths * Large Backyard Perfect for Entertaining, with Covered Patio, Extended Deck, & Enclosed Hot Tub * This Home Also Fea tures Expansive Stored Attic Space Above Garage and a Fully Yard Sprinkle System

135 Cherrytree Trl, Forney, TX

Price: $292000

Desired subdivision in Forney! On a corner lot this beautiful 2 story home has it all. Walk in to a huge open kitchen living area, sliding glass door leading to the landscaped backyard with an 8ft privacy fence. Equipped with an upstairs living area, HUGE master with tons of natural light. Fresh paint throughout inside & out. This house is ready for you to call home. $5,000 cash at closing for carpet repairs or replacement.

308 Stanford, Forney, TX

Price: $238900

Space, Space, Space. Lovely 2 story home in Forney. The open flow concept begins the moment you step through the door. Multiple gathering areas make this a wonderful home to entertain in! The kitchen is perfect with an upgraded back splash and recently tiled floor. Upstairs offers another large family or bonus area. The master bedroom is spacious refuge of comfort with a charming master bath and a custom walk in closet that is a must see! Don’t forget the deck in the backyard, its a wonderful place to unwind in the evenings. This is a fantastic home at a great price, don’t miss it!

1007 Rumley Rd, Forney, TX

Price: $234900

Warm and inviting home in Master planned community with excellent School district. Kitchen with island-Living-and Dining areas are open concept and very spacious. Durable, attractive flooring throughout first level. The Study-Office will be ideal for working from home or a quiet place to read and relax. Guest half bath off Living room. All of the generously sized Bedrooms are located upstairs for convenience and function. Make sure to notice how large the closets are in the extra bedrooms. The large Game room could easily feature a pool table or home theater. The finished attic space is impressive and a perfect retreat for kids or adults. Nest thermostat. Located near the main entrance for easy entry and exit.

2201 Green Hill Dr, Forney, TX

Price: $199900

REMODELED with CUSTOM UPGRADES! Youll love this charming, 2-story cul de sac home located in sought after Windmill Farms. This 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home with a 2 car garage will give you 2,591 sq ft of generous space to move about (without losing that quaint, cozy atmosphere when it’s time to cuddle up by the fireplace with a good book). Situated in a friendly community with a nationally recognized school system on the outskirts of Dallas County, just thirty minutes from the magnificent Downtown Dallas. Large storage building in backyard to help keep things organized. LOADS OF UPDATE S with ALL NEW ROOF, GRANITE, LAMINATE FLOORING, CARPET, TRAVERTINE TILE, PAINT, CROWN MOLDING, LIGHTING and so much more!

3001 Mill Creek Way, Forney, TX

Price: $270000

Beautiful home on corner lot with 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths! Large kitchen has an island and lots of cabinet space. All bedrooms include a walkin closet. New roof and new HVAC. Wonderful guest suite with private bath downstairs. This spacious home is a must see! Home is conveniently located across from one of the two community pools! 1 year home warranty is included.

2024 Uvalde Dr, Forney, TX

Price: $249800

Beautiful Highland home with 4bedrooms, Study, 2 dining, master on first floor, GAME and MEDIA plus over $30k in upgrades! This home is breath taking with a stunning staircase that has wrought iron spindles, hardwood throughout, granite, upgraded tile, oversized walk in shower, stone fireplace, GAME and MEDIA room, stone fireplace, mud sink in garage and so much more! Nestled in a prime location near HWY 80 and conveniently located just minutes from Rockwall and moments to Dallas.

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