Television is not the only source for home decoration information and ideas on Interior design. There are several great books on the subject that are able to help designers of almost any background and experience level. Color is an element that tends to inspire emotion in people because color has an influence on the value of life above and beyond other considerations. Colors therefore have a definite impact on the atmosphere that you want to create when doing interior design. (more…)
Yalick Farms, being developed on 56 acres that once produced crops sold at a stand on the other side of Memorial Highway, is the first project of its kind in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mostly residential, the “luxury condominium village,” as one partner described it, will include a clubhouse, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts and small shops.
Lead developer J. Naparlo said Yalick Farms would not be considered unusual in the Williamsburg, Va. area, where the Plymouth native now lives.
“There are projects like this down here,” he said recently; developments that include small shops with housing above or nearby.
Partner Perry Dunford, who also is the general contractor, said the first of a planned 112 townhouses will be ready for sale within weeks. A sales office will be set up in the clubhouse and initially they will be marketed directly by the developers.
Both Naparlo and Dunford tout the building quality and amenities at Yalick Farms. (more…)
If you live in a small home, you have to be flexible. This is especially true when it comes to preconceived notions about how a particular room is supposed to look or be used. If you grew up with fixed ideas, such as that a living room should contain a sofa and two side chairs with two identical end tables and a matching coffee table, you need to learn to let that go.
I recently visited a client who lives in a 900-square-foot condominium with generous patio space that transforms the unit into a much more expansive visual area. She was fretting over a wonderful but quite large old wood desk that she had snuggled into a garden window outcropping at one end of her living room. (more…)
