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What You're Wanting, Revealed: An Outdoor Dining Room For Adrian's Castle
For the latest what you're wanting, I asked you how you'd furnish, accessorize, and style an outdoor dining room for Adrian Brody and Spanish girlfriend Elsa Pataky's stone castle-like house in upstate New York. The house is stunning, so I'm sure a basic picnic in the grass would still be glamorous, but AudreyStar really took the challenge and ran with it. So she wins the Sugar swag of her choice as a reward!
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What You're Wanting: An Outdoor Dining Room For Adrian's Castle
As I recently shared with you, Adrian Brody and Spanish girlfriend Elsa Pataky are putting down roots in a stone castle-like house in upstate New York. The photos, which were splashed across the pages of Hello!, are pretty over the top with the lovey-dovey behavior between the two, but the building itself is fascinating.
While Giorgio Armani apparently designed the interiors, I figure that no castle is truly complete without a fit-for-a-king outdoor dining area.
Home Depot to Launch Exclusive Martha Stewart Living Brand
Home Depot and Martha Stewart Living have announced a plan to develop an exclusive Martha Stewart Living line of home improvement products including outdoor living, home organization, and home décor items for Home Depot's stores. Like Martha's other products, you can expect them to be traditionally stylish and good quality, but they will also be affordable. Both design teams are working side by side to create a collection that makes coordinating décor and design during home improvement projects easy.
Open House: Do You Decorate Your Outdoor Spaces?
As much as I love the designs of outdoor rugs these days, I feel like they're more trouble than they're worth. I know they can all be hosed off and left to dry in the sun, but that's more effort than I'd like to put in. People have been entertaining and hanging out on their hardwood decks for decades, and I've never heard any complaints — OK, I did get a splinter once.
Summer Style: Sam's Wine Country Shack
While I wanted to love Bottle Shock, the film about California's vineyards featuring the blind Paris wine tasting of 1976, I had mixed feelings about the movie. However, I had nothing but love for the decidedly rustic digs that Sam (Rachel Taylor) inhabited on the Chateau Montelena vineyard.
While I can't imagine anyone actually living this exposed to the elements (at the very least some mosquito netting would've helped), I do love the overall effect of the building.
Casa Quickie: Let's Take This Outside
Attractive outdoor furniture is often expensive, and affordable outdoor furniture is tacky more often than not. But, if you're a country dweller with a beautiful backyard, you shouldn't let it sit unused this Summer. Considering bringing your indoor furniture outdoors when you're entertaining.
In The News: Where the Sidewalk Ends
If you've ever lived in a large city, such as New York or Los Angeles, you know that space is at a premium, especially outdoor space. Yards are virtually unheard of, so what's a gal to do when she wants to dine al fresco? Why, take it outside — out to the sidewalk, that is.
On the Market: Matthew Perry's Former Pad
Are you a Friends fan with an eye for modern real estate? Then you're in luck because, according to Big Time, the 8,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, five-bath Beverly Hills former home of Matthew Perry is on the market for $12.5 million.The listing for the property reads:
"Lautner-esque" Modern estate at the end of quiet cul-de-sac in Trousdale. Poliform kitchen opens to family room, which spills out to sizable back yard with large lawn, outdoor cooking & dining, and infinity pool & spa.
On the Market: Jamie Foxx's Slightly Dull Tarzana Manse
Actor Jamie Foxx, who has been trying to sell his three-bedroom, 5,428-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Tarzana area since April, is still asking $2.3 million for the house. Built in 1949, the home is located on approximately 3/4 of an acre and features a game room, pool and pool house, master suite with private entrance, media theater, gourmet kitchen with SubZero and Wolf appliances, and a dining area with an aquarium. The house was purchased by Foxx in 1997 for $930,000, so it seems to me as if there's a significant markup on these slightly dull digs.
In the News: An Inspiring Outdoor Space
Since Summer is soon on its way, it's natural to think about creating functional, beautiful outdoor spaces where you can entertain and relax. In a recent LA Times article by Debra Prinzing, a family does just this, using repurposed, recycled, and found objects. Greta and Mike Jarvis, along with their daughter Annika, were tired of the awkward, unused backyard at their Manhattan Beach home, so Greta, an adept flea marketer, decided to transform their 30-x-40-foot backyard into something more family friendly.
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