Easy summer style ideas

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Designers provide decorating and entertaining advice for the summer months. Interior designer Antonio da Motta Leal suggests hanging muslin from small hooks just below the ceiling to cool dark or bright walls. Interior designer Mario Villa recommends eating outside as often as possible.

Methods, Interior design, Interior designers, Entertaining

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The kitchen as summer house

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Peter and Shaune Miller hired architect Mark McInturff to expand the kitchen of their Washington, DC, home. The result is a sunny room that has the feel of a summer cottage. They have added on to their Sears mail-order home as their family has grown.

Innovations, Architects, Dwellings, Home remodeling, McInturff, Mark

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The art of kitchen craft: a modern kitchen preserves its cottage roots

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A renovation project that turned the kitchen, playroom and sunroom of a 1930s cottage-style house into an arts-and-crafts-style great room is described. The ceiling of the sunroom was raised to become the new kitchen.

Influence, Kitchens, Arts and crafts movement

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