The hothouse colors, the hand-painted tiles, the lazy drift of hammocks and mosquito netting: If you visit Mexico, it’s hard not to fall in love with the look and the lifestyle.
But unlike a craft or a curio that you can pack in your suitcase, Mexican style isn’t always easy to bring back home. And if [...]
When we think of an ecological house, we usually get a picture of a shining new edifice made from straw bales, adobe or experimental materials, complete with solar electric panels and a high-tech heating system. Perhaps the building has an unusual shape, resembling a dome or a crystal, or is built underground. To many, their [...]
Neighbors of Jeff and Shannon Neve’s quickly rising two-story house in a 20-year-old Walnut Creek neighborhood can say, “That place went up practically overnight.” And they can say, “They don’t build houses like they used to.” They might also say, “That’s a sure sign of shoddy workmanship,” but on that they would be wrong.
The Neves’ [...]
Sometime in the mid 19th century, a chair became, even for those who cared, just a chair. It was called mass production. We live with it still.
Like our clothes, furniture, however expensive, is rarely exclusively ours. To personalize it, we dress it up with accessories. At the high end of interior decoration is fine art, [...]
Turkey’s southern Mediterranean tourist hotspot, Antalya, is undergoing a transformation worthy of one of Europe’s most popular destinations for retirees and tourists, shifting its reliance from a community banking on orange groves to a cosmopolitan city that thrives on the sale of mortar and real estate. A favorite among German tourists, Antalya offers year round [...]
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