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Interior Design Trends 2023: Experts Share What’s in This Year

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At first, “interior design trends” can feel like an oxymoronic term. Decor doesn’t tend to undergo seasonal changes or flash-in-the-pan fads—furniture, textiles, art, and wall coverings are too cumbersome, too expensive, too enduring to update frequently. When you design a room, as the saying goes, you need to learn to live with it. For a long time. Yet the pendulum does swing, albeit over years and decades: 1970s shag-carpeted bohemianism gives way to 1980s glitzy excess, which gives way to 1990s palate-cleansing minimalism. So, as we enter 2023—and find interior solutions that are kind to both our sanity and the…Continue Reading

The top home design trends of 2022 – architecture and design news

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Home renovation and design platform Houzz.com.au identifies the top emerging home design trends based on the latest search insights from its community of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home professionals. The trends highlight the continued need for dedicated activity spaces, a focus on outdoor living, a rise in bathroom grooming and a deep dive into resort-style pool design. The report also shows an increase in homeowners honoring architectural origins, while smart-storage solutions are clearly important in 2022. Dedicated activity spacesSince the beginning of the pandemic, people have continued to make their homes the center point for new avenues of activity…Continue Reading

Work begins on Peabody’s Central Street renovation this spring | News

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PEABODY — The city will begin construction on a major overhaul of Central Street this month. The city has received about $20 million in state and federal aid to completely redo a section of Central Street starting at its intersection with Walnut Street near Bill & Bobs and running through the intersection of Endicott Street and Route 114 at Wilson Square. As part of the project, crews will add a new road surface, sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic signals, and modern landscape and design amenities to improve traffic flow, safety and accessibility for pedestrians and drivers. Mayor Ted Bettencourt announced in a…Continue Reading

Court ruling allows White Stadium renovation project to proceed

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In her ruling, Ellis wrote that pausing the project at its current stage would likely kill it, as the soccer group was the only respondent to the city’s request for proposals to overhaul White Stadium. This would leave the facility “in a state of deterioration and partial use” and the city “may lose the opportunity to have its own professional women’s soccer team,” Ellis wrote. “Renovating a 75-year-old, 10,000 seat, outdoor stadium with necessary structural and system upgrades to bring it into compliance with building and safety codes is expensive. … Even if the Defendants ultimately prevail and the Proposed…Continue Reading

Concerns over former St. Pierre Renovation Center

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You can’t miss the mess on Exeter Road. Recently a chorus of complaints has grown louder about the state of the former St. Pierre Renovation Center at 595 Exeter Rd. in London. Smashed windows, broken doors, and wide open shipping bays have allowed a steady flow of trespassers into the building. “Over the last month, maybe two months, there’s been a lot of homeless people or younger kids going in there breaking the windows and causing fires,” said Courtney Loucks, whose home overlooks the site. The property around the building has become littered with large piles of construction debris and…Continue Reading

Atelier Gratia’s Star House is a monolithic concrete residential structure that stands out of the Kaohsiung’s urban landscape

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Kaohsiung, Taiwan “Different living quarters are connected like stars in a constellation through intermediary spaces that offer buffer and transition, where a balance between family unity and individual privacy can be maintained,” says Grace Ming-En Chang, lead architect of Atelier Gratia.“The house is like a giant sundial where the passing time and changing seasons are noted: planetary movements are constantly felt through the ever-changing shadow play below the skylights, while the colors of the sky are captured on the kaleidoscopic surfaces of the panoramic glass façades that wrap around the courtyard.” Grace Ming-En Chang of Atelier Gratia has designed…Continue Reading