10 Minutes w/ Rose Praino....Featured in Brick Underground

10 Minutes w/ Rose Praino by Annabel Lee 10 Minutes with Rose Praino: Touching up (and custom-fitting) NYC apartments until they're move-in ready....... For eight years, Rose Praino and her husband, Frank, have run Your Decor NYC, a handyman/design/contractor service that does bite-sized jobs for New York City apartment dwellers.  No job is too small, but some are too big.  The Prainos met as real estate agents at Prudential Douglas Elliman, and they work throughout Manhattan and Riverdale. We spoke with Rose to get the inside scoop.......  Follow link to read complete article........10 Minutes w/...

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{ Interior Services }

Interior Services : Art work Installations, Flat Screen TV Mounting, Window Treatment Installation, Light Fixtures, Wire Management, ETC...........  For the Real Estate Professional: With NYC's Unique Real Estate Market in mind, Franks experience as a Broker for Douglas Elliman and Leasing Consultant for Glenwood Management, lead him to develop a company with an innate understanding of  what improvements will make an apartment more marketable and what can done to rejuvenate a newly purchased apartment simply and efficiently. Either way Your Decor NYC...

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Pottery Barn Design Studio Submission

Barclay Towers, NYC, NY Pottery Barn THE DECONSTRUCTED TREE The Home Office area is located in the entry area and is also part of the living room. We needed something that had both "beauty and utility". This area is far from any natural light and is dark. So lighting was essential! As a design element we added a deconstructed tree, bring the outside in. This area became a great conversation piece rather than something we were trying to hide or disguise.Pottery B...

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Bohemian Beds....to stay in all day....

                        With the arrival of blistery weather my mind is on one thing.....cozy bohemian beds!                                                                                                            homedit                        ...

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Color Mix 2012

                                                                                                                  "Analogous palettes that stay beautifully close to home are today’s dominant color story, according to Jackie Jordan, director of color marketing for Sherwin-Williams. “You can do so many great things within a single color family.” But rather than...

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Our Top 5 Mirrors from Etsy

                                                                 White Shabby Chic                                                                                                                 ...

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Farrow & Ball Reveal the Colours of 2012

Farrow & Ball Color Trend 2012 All White2005 Pigeon25 Incarnadine248 Strong White2001 Brassica271 Dove Tale267 Cabbage White269 Railings31 Skylight205 Blackened2011 Babouche223 Pavilion Gray242 ...

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All I Want is............Black Crow Studios Watercolor Paper!

                                                                                                                  http://www.blackcrowstudios.com/                                                           ...

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Couldn't Have said it Better Myself!

I came across this insightful post today. So often we have had to go down the checklist with clients when compared to our suburban counterparts. Why NYC renovations cost so bloody much by Clare Donohue, Kitchen and Bath Designer | 9/03/09 - 6:25 AM The Situation: I get this phone call all the time: "My contractor just came in with a $50K price on my bathroom, but I got my bathroom in the country done for $10K. What gives?" While tile, fixtures and lights cost the same no matter where you live--courtesy of the Internet--the price of labor varies widely, and here's why: City contractors face an array of challenges their...

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