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Home Edition’ Designer Critiques Late-Night Hosts’ Decor

Freda A. Nix 3 months ago

The “stay-at-home” orders enacted across the U.S. in recent weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus have taken away Americans’ abilities to do many things. But one new pastime they’ve given us is analyzing the home decor of late-night hosts now broadcasting their shows from their respective homes.

TheWrap had HGTV “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” designer Breegan Jane critique the broadcasted homes of Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien. She was impressed by a few — and not so much by others. Jane preferred the spaces that have clearly been “dressed” for TV.

“It’s OK to set the stage a little bit,” she said. “I like the ‘A’ for effort.”

Also Read: Alec Baldwin Asks Which ‘Tonight Show: At Home Edition’ Guest Has Been ‘Most at Their Wits’ End’ (Video)

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Office: “There’s this beautiful warm wood credenza that’s

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Keeping Happy at Home – Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian

Freda A. Nix 3 months ago

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Elle Decor

For our new series “Objects of Affection,” ELLE Decor is asking designers and others from an array of fields to tell us about an item or items in their personal space that is bringing them comfort and solace as they stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. (And here’s what’s keeping the ELLE Decor team happy at home.)

Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian is familiar with the importance of discipline. As a child, he was a classical ballet dancer. But when things didn’t pan out, he eventually switched to the cosmetics world, where he has made a name for himself creating scents for top brands, among them Jean-Paul Gaultier and Narciso Rodriguez. In 2009, Kurkdjian founded his own boutique line, whose hit creations include Aqua Universalis, a blend of bergamot, Italian lemon, white flowers, and musky woods, and Baccarat Rouge 540, a

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4 top spots for home decor in Plano

Freda A. Nix 3 months ago
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Shopping for home decor?

Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top home decor sources in Plano, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to venture next time you’re in the market for home decor.

Plano-area consumers usually spend more in the spring at retail and wholesale businesses than any other season of the year, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a provider of small business software for online reviews management. Daily spending at Plano-area retail and wholesale businesses grew to $1,038,880 for the metro area in the spring of last year, 5% higher than the average for the rest of the year.

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Keeping Happy at Home – Ben Pundole James Bond Bulldog

Freda A. Nix 3 months ago

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Elle Decor

For our new series “Objects of Affection,” ELLE Decor is asking designers and others from an array of fields to tell us about an item in their personal space that is bringing them comfort and solace as they stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. (And here’s what’s keeping the ELLE Decor team happy at home.)

Ben Pundole is about as experienced a hospitality and travel resource as you will find. He began his career at the Groucho Club in London, then spent 11 years working for Ian Schrager at the Morgans Hotel Group. In 2010, he opened Ruschmeyers in Montauk, New York. Pundole is now the vice president of brand experience at Ian Schrager/Marriott’s Edition hotels group and the founder of the editorial travel site AHotelLife.com. These days, he has been hosting live conversations on AHotelLife’s social-media channels with

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