Nest — Winter 2014-15
Cooking Up a New Kitchen; How to Choose Art for Your Home; Q&A With a Home Inspector; Office Space Overhauls; DIY Christmas Light Chandelier
Nest — Winter 2014/2015
Find. Fix. Feather. Those three words sum up the notions behind Seven Days’ quarterly supplement about home, design and real estate. If you’re in the market to buy, sell, make a move or spruce up your décor, we aim to inspire. Winter 2014/2015: What’s Cooking? In the Kitchen With Designer Wendy Johnson By Xian Chiang-Waren…
In the Kitchen With Designer Wendy Johnson
“Today’s kitchens are not just kitchens,” says award-winning interior designer Wendy Johnson. To be sure, that room is still where meals are prepared. But increasingly, it’s also the room where family members cross paths and visitors hang out. From a designer’s standpoint, it’s not uncommon to imagine the kitchen with a built-in reading nook, dining…
Vermont Galleries Bring Art to Homes and Businesses
When Lillian and Bill Mauer, co-owners of the building that houses Stowe Family Practice, decided they wanted to buy an outdoor sculpture for the property, they went a mile down Mountain Road to West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park. Owned by Tari Swenson and her sculptor husband Chris Curtis, West Branch is one of the…
Home Inspector Jeff Belrose Digs Deep So Buyers Don’t Have To
Home inspector Jeff Belrose straddles the line between being thorough and being nitpicky. During an inspection, he looks closely at everything, but doesn’t blow every flaw and blemish out of proportion. “You’re like a referee, calling it as you see it,” he says. “If there are two parties involved, one person is going to like…
Red Thread Designs Office Spaces for a New Era
The more time you spend in the Burlington office of design company Red Thread, the likelier you are to notice the subtle, ambient hiss from ceiling-mounted speakers. Due to its wavelength, this sound is classified as pink noise, and its purpose is to render intra-office sounds less distinguishable. You can tell a conversation is taking…
How to Make a Chandelier With Christmas Lights
There’s nothing more festive during the holiday season than basking in the glow of twinkle lights — whether they’re decking your tree or the eaves of your house. So why pack those sparkling strings away after just a couple of weeks? For all the sweat — and swearing, if my experience is typical — you…
