Hi all! Sorry I've been MIA - I was packing to spend this next month visiting my parents - and then there was the whole moving and unpacking process - which I"d rather not think about. Well, now that I'm here in the country - listening to the crickets and birds - mixed in with the clickity clack of my keyboard - I thought a little reminder of civilization was in order.
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The above is a one bedroom, one bath loft in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood - "NoHo" meaning "North of Houston" - a name created by the real estate industry to give an area a trendy age and thus - up the edge on the prices.
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The two images here are from the luxuriously renovated D.C. townhouse.
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I adore this wide expanse of floor - a renovated Savannah townhouse.
via Metropolitan Home Sep. 2009
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I adore this wide expanse of floor - a renovated Savannah townhouse.
via Metropolitan Home Sep. 2009