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Garden Sheds: Luxuriating in Nature

Say, "garden shed," and what leaps to this earthbound mind is a humble structure with plenty of hooks and bins to store the arsenal it takes to bend nature to (wo)man's will.  Apparently, that is not at all what Berkshire Botanical Garden trustee Matt Larkin

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How to Sell a House: Scenes from a Staging

"I don't like the word 'staging'," says James Male, one of two Columbia County agents with Mark Phillips Realty, a boutique agency headquartered across the river in Durham, NY (Greene County).  "It implies fakery; I prefer to say 'editing.' " Call

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High End On-Line, the Brave New World of Luxury Retailing

"A couple of years ago, big-time luxury retailing changed drastically. The stores became impossible for a small vendor like me to deal with," says Kerry MacBride (left), a Hudson-based jewelry designer whose creations had done well for years at such lofty outlets as Berdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue,

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The Wandering Eye: It's a Boy!

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Francisco Jose Yunior    “Frankie” I have misgivings.  Is it in appalling taste to mourn the little lost friend publicly in March and then adopt three weeks later in April and ‘announce’

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Shopping: Sideshow Moves to Hudson

Now there's more space for Avratin's growing collection of high-end vintage clothing.

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The Queen of Mid-Century Modest

When Pam Kueber and her husband David Fisher bought their 1951 ranch house in Lenox in 2001, it was not because they were devotees of the mid-century modern style.  Their previous house, in Michigan, had been a 1912 Colonial Revival/Arts and Crafts pastiche, and through renovating that, they had

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The Wandering Eye: Now they Want to Close Our Parks?

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). To file under : One More Thing to Worry About…. Let me revise that to : One More Thing to Deal With… Niagara Falls State Park, founded in 1885, is the oldest state

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Our Favorite Garden Blog Gets A New Look For Its 2nd Birthday

One of the first stories on Rural Intelligence two years ago was about Margaret Roach, the former editorial director of Martha Stewart Living, who had recently moved full time to her longtime weekend house in Copake Falls, NY, and started a website called A Way To Garden.com. Since then

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He Was a Very Good Boy: Pancho 1994 - 2010

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). My Pancho died this afternoon.  I can’t stop crying. I know, I know he was sixteen, and he lived the life of a prince.  I’m crying for me, not

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A Chatham Architect Designs a Prize-Winning Poolhouse

By day, it appears to be a cluster of nicely maintained farm buildings, just as the Chatham architect James Dixon intended.  This is but one of the aspects of this poolhouse project that impressed the jury at the Eastern New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which, on

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Interiors: A Hands-On Couple's Graphic Redesign

"The day I met him," says Raina Kattelson of her husband, Robert Butscher, an architect with Wadia Associates in New Canaan, CT, "he was trying to shore up the porch."  For some women, that might have been an uh-oh, see-you-around-pal moment of truth but fortunately, she

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Everybody's All American: Paul Rich & Sons

Tom Rich has been betting on North Street's renaissance for 27 years. When he and his parents, Paul and Betty Rich, opened their furniture store, Paul Rich & Sons, in 1983, "Pittsfield was still a GE town," recalls Rich. "The England Brothers department store was

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