We’ll take it wherever we can find it these days: a few minutes of calm, a sense of balance. In this latest Home Design, we talk to people who are making harmony happen. Whether they are gardeners growing magical landscapes out of city plots, or a woman classically trained in feng shui balancing the energy […]
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You can find hundreds of books on feng shui at the bookstore: Essential Feng Shui, 101 Feng Shui Tips For Your Home, Feng Shui for Singles, Feng Shui for Dummies. There are feng shui candle sets, CDs, and body lotion. Westerners have been trying to tap into the exotic wisdom of the “Orient” since we […]
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Down the garden path
Gardeners living in the city don’t always have a lot of space to work with. But the urge to set hands into soil is a powerful one, and thank goodness. The pockets of beauty these tillers create are something we all can enjoy. The City of Rochester recently announced the winners of the Flower City […]
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Getting back to nature
When Rick Hauser and Ali Yapicioglu, the partners at In Site: Architecture in Perry, designed a house on Auburn’s Lasher Road, they wanted to, as Yapicioglu puts it, “find the sun.” South-facing windows were placed to catch as much winter sunlight as possible and shine it onto a wall that runs along the house’s axis. […]
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These houses just want to fit in
Rochester architect Roger Brown believes in the public realm. “Where the people are,” he says, “where the sidewalks are, where people walk.” He spends a lot of time for his home designs thinking about what the houses will look like from the street and exactly how welcoming they will be. “It’s what makes the […]
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Hanging logically in thin air
Craig Jensen has designed a house that appears, in drawings at least, to float. The long, low house is elevated, supported on one end by the ground-floor garage and the other end by a thick concrete pillar. The center of the house hovers above the driveway and the end of the house hangs above the […]
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The man who builds castles in the sky
Marie Barkley remembers the day a visitor — a man literally off the street — walked through her husband Maurice’s tree house complex, descended the final ladder, stood on the lawn, and applauded. Both the Barkleys know the phenomenon well: people driving by their Henrietta home will suddenly slow down, stop, and turn around, […]
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A Kitchen Built for Two
Moe Smith will be the first to say it’s not his kitchen — his domain is outside where, year round, he established his reputation as king of the grill, grilling everything from hot dogs to fish and corn to peppers. “He used to barbeque every day,” his wife Bernice says. “He’d put anything on the […]
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Professional Paradise
Gerry Vorrasi’s kitchen, although still under construction, is a thing to behold. Located in the back of his 1860s home off East Avenue, it’s a series of connected rooms that are both beautiful and highly functional. But you might expect this from the co-owner of Restaurant 2 Vine (24 Winthrop Street, 454-6020). He’s combined restaurant-industry […]
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Rochester: Art for Living
If you were in the grips of cabin fever this past winter, you might have wished your crib was more of a castle. There are several local alternatives to moving to Europe and actually buying one. The two artists and one store listed below offer a few different ways to make you fall in love […]
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Family Matters
Gayle and Nick Mourgides’ kitchen is both big and cozy, the kind of place that makes you think of family. Done in yellow and white with a long farm table at one end, the room has lots of counter space for little helpers to work. The Mourgides — owners of Olives (50 State Street, Pittsford, […]
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Home Design 2003
Chefs at play We see these chefs at work in our favorite restaurants — their kitchens full of steaming pots emanating wonderful smells. Ever wonder what their real kitchens, their home kitchens look like? Disorganized? Nothing but a hot plate and a George Foreman Grill? Here’s a look into the home kitchens of the chef-owners […]
