Modern Living

The mostly rural province, 40 miles north of Baghdad, remains one of Iraq's most volatile areas, where Sunni insurgents are fighting against Iraqi and U.S. forces. Monday's deaths were a reminder that even as overall violence has declined, security gains remain fragile, as U.S. military commanders frequently state. The U.S. military did not provide further details about Monday's incident.
The attack comes two weeks after a suicide car bomb killed Read more...

No one was injured in a fire that caused extensive heat and smoke damage to an East Wenatchee area home Tuesday afternoon.
Douglas County Fire District two Chief Chuck Fenton says crews arrived in the 19 hundred block of Northwest Cascade around 2-45p.m     The blaze,  which caused extensive heat and smoke damage in the home's interior,  is believed to have started as a cooking fire.

February 25, 2009 01:27 pm
Matt.Koesters@newsandtribune.com
Doctors and nurses aren’t the only people helping Jeffersonville Police Department Patrolman Keith Broady recover from the gunshot wound he sustained in the line of duty.
About a dozen members of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 558 arrived at the Broady residence early Tuesday to assist with a home-improvement project ahead of the birth of the family’s Read more...

Las Vegas Market sees 'green,' exotic trends in home decor: Full House
Two years ago, I was lucky enough to attend the hugely intimidating Las Vegas Market, a twice-a-year furniture and interior-design convention that fills a ginormous -- 5.1 million square feet of showroom space -- downtown Las Vegas complex.
My feet still hurt.
The market, rivaling the nearly 100-year-old High Point, N.C., biannual furniture event, is a newbie on the home-design Read more...

The interiors of Mickey Rourke's Manhattan apartment were inspired by a few of his favorite hotels in Europe. "I was going to study interior or fashion design at one point, but I was also into acting and boxing," Rourke told Architectural Digest. He's nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for "The Wrestler." The Academy Awards will be presented tonight.
Architecturaldigest.com is saluting Oscar by taking a look at Academy Award winners at home, with Read more...

Happily, Johnson and Robert Neper, a Perkins+Will senior associate, have avoided a sterile, institutional interior. They have also leapfrogged over the trap of the ugly, exposed-concrete tower plopped on a parking garage. Neither a stand-alone object nor a block-filling behemoth, their tower is felicitously two-faced, curving suavely on one side and appearing sharply serrated on the other.
, from which the developers leased the property, and gives Read more...

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So a big surprise comes on Friday. That's when the Herald-Leader's Central Kentucky Lifestyle real estate magazine will give readers a tour of Gillispie's home.
accompany a story about Gillispie settling into a new home after becoming UK coach in the spring of 2007.
details Gillispie's search for a home. As Holman notes, the UK coach looked at more houses than Meeks scored points at Tennessee last month. The process included Gillispie teaching
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"Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker." An exhibition of the "furnitural" quality of an object. "Donald Fortescue: Genius Loci." An exhibition of works based on 17th and 18th century collectors and curiosity cabinets. Through March 1. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma. (707) 939-7862.
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Bellarmine Women's Council seeking historic home for fall show.
The Designer Show House will be open Sept. 12-27. Occupants will have to move out beginning in August for about two months. Ellen Mellinger, (502) 338-2305.
Clark County Soil and Water Conservation District spring tree sale.
9608 Ind. 62, Charlestown. Through March 18. Three-gallon, grade 1 (nursery stock) container trees available for $25 plus tax. One-gallon native perennials Read more...

You wouldn't think that I beams, common beams used in construction, would make comfortable pieces of furniture and, even less so, very attractive furniture. Not until you see Filippo Ghezzani's very livable and "workable" line of interior design...
At first, you get a very sleek modern overall impression of Ghezzani's designs. But there are distinct throwbacks to every design period from Art Deco to Populux to modern futurism. They are delightfully Read more...