But some owners have gotten exceedingly creative with the dream home extras, carving out party palaces like 1445 West Grande Circle.
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Beyond the creative decor, the home has high ceilings, a grand foyer and staircase, a master suite with his-and-her baths and closets, a fireplace and lounge area.
"I typically suggest an island 5-feet wide by 8-feet long, " says Lane Brooks, creative director for Christopher Peacock Home, a Greenwich, Conn.
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That way, we can stretch the perceived time of our vacations, expand our memories in a youthful-like way, and return home with more creative ideas.
Dan Deighan, founder of Deighan Financial Advisors, has another, more creative solution--sell your home to your kids.
If you just scratch the surface of the city that might be all you see, but don't forget Los Angeles is home to an enormously creative population.
There's still, and I advise on this all the time, there's still a lot of very creative ways to get into a home affordably and have it work for you.
She is living back in her home city Seattle and studying creative writing, said David Marriott, the Knox family media adviser, quoted by the New York Times.
Gigabit networks can enable genetic sequencing to treat cancer patients, immersive and creative software to support lifelong learning from home, and ways for small businesses to take advantage of Big Data.
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In addition, Catherine Monteiro de Barros, founder and designer of the now defunct Papo D'Anjo, will helm the children's line (which will include clothing for boys and girls, infants to age 14), and Miles Redd, a well-known interior decorator who is already the creative director for Oscar de la Renta Home, will be in charge of the extensive new home-accessories line that is set to launch in late spring.
Increasing rents in Hackney, the east London borough that has been home to the capital's creative community for the past 15 years, have begun pushing artists south of the river, and the epicentre of London's art scene has started to shift with them.
Last year, Barber Osgerby, the creative team behind the London Olympic torch, took home the Design of the Year award.
The small town has been here for more than 1, 500 years, perched on a dramatic cliff top 1000-feet above the sea, and in the past few centuries has garnered a reputation as a popular escape for creative artists and musicians: Ravello has been a home away from home to Wagner, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Greta Garbo, Graham Greene, Leonard Bernstein and M.
But the toll is particularly hard on Singapore's home-grown technology companies, IPC, Creative Technology and Aztech Systems, which had been the darlings of investors and symbols of local entrepreneurial spirit.
Together they worked out a turnaround plan that hinged on Tupperware-style home demonstrations, built around a company they named Creative Memories.
Though he has had some interest from overseas, his inquiries typically come from wealthy types looking for a unique place to call home--or members of the Society for Creative Anachronisms , a medieval reenactment group.
She said Ms Leighton had been trustworthy, reliable, creative and caring in the six months she has worked at the home.
Moments later, the home side went in front, with McFadden again providing the creative spark.
Already experts in making guests to the city feel at home, hotel staff are becoming cultural ambassadors for the UNESCO Creative City under the instruction of the Bradford City of Film team.
Other creative opportunities being explored include natural gas pumps (hooked up to the home) to fuel natural gas vehicles, and light duty vehicles relying on fuel cells (which manufacturers hope to begin building by 2015).
She took me on a tour of downtown Detroit, her adopted hometown on the way out to the old GM headquarters, now home (at least in part) to The College for Creative Studies, a design school.
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His new solo album, Go, is where he's found a home for that music, and it's a brilliant and creative assortment of songs.
But in the end, the photo "looked forced, like something you would find in a catalog, as opposed to what you would find in someone's home, " says Mr. Trask, the site's co-creative director.
Middlehaven is home to Middlesbrough College and the town's Boho Zone, where dozens of creative businesses are based.
Los Angeles is the home to one of the most enduring American dreams: Everyday, some of the best creative minds get off the bus from Anywhere, USA with dreams of becoming the next Hollywood phenom.
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That means Google may find a home for its phone among consumers in developed and emerging economies, rather than the corporate or creative elite.
So in 1997 he set up an artists' community in his home town of Jogjakarta - as a buffer against outside pressures as well as a center for creative interaction.
The record levels of risk undertaken by financial institutions, home-buyers, and investors, particularly in sub-prime mortgages and other forms of creative financing, made for a collapse of crisis proportions when the bubble burst.
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