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  • Chairing the Wealth
    Take a seat for charity

    Hold It Contemporary Home is hosting its third annual Chairs for Chair’ity event October 13 to 20, selling stylized seats to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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  • Timber Lines
    Wood has been sprouting up in the most unexpected places

    This month, we’re digging punches of Pinocchio in our lives—and that’s no lie. Go against the grain and update your look with these sleek, wood and wood-inspired products.

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  • Charlie’s Angel
    A silent film star’s remodeled home spawns a Solana Beach boutique

    In the 1920s, celluloid funny man Charlie Chaplin fell in love with the seaside town of Encinitas—so much so that he bought a two-story neoclassical bluff-top home in Leucadia.

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  • Growing Up
    Vertical gardens are helping space-starved chefs vegitate

    For many chefs, the dream of having on-site gardens from which to harvest fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables for their signature dishes is dashed by lack of space. Some San Diego chefs are finding a solution in vertical gardens.

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  • Address to Impress
    Life at home—and where the other half lives

    From energy efficiency to earthy color palettes to man caves, it’s hard to say which home trend came first. Was it the
    egg chair or the chicken coops?

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  • Design of the Times
    Homeowners seek more personal, daring motifs in 2011

    Robert Wright, a past national president of the American Society of Interior Designers, says homeowners these days are making bolder, more personal choices that reflect a desire to stay in their homes for the long haul.

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  • Move Over, Rover
    Are chicken coops the new dog house?

    If you thought you heard a cluck or a cock-a-doodle from your neighbor’s yard, you’re sanity hasn’t taken wing.

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  • Back to the Cave
    Man spaces as different and 'slick' as their owners

    There were a lot of plusses that drew Russ Havens to the Kensington house he purchased with wife Judit a few years ago. But one quality far surpassed the others: its remodeled garage, the designated site for his long-awaited man cave.

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  • Hot Seat
    This San Diego designer's future is on fire

    Furniture designer Alberto Vieyra’s aesthetic call-to-arms came when he was about 13 years old, and it came on wheels—in the form of a mint-condition 1957 Cadillac El Dorado with a black exterior and textured white vinyl interior.

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  • Shui Loves Me, Shui Loves Me Not
    Don't leave love to chance-organize your bedroom

    Have you lost that loving feeling? It may be your bedroom’s fault. Practitioners of the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway) believe that what goes on in our lives is a reflection of our personal environments. By successfully balancing the flow of energy, or chi, in a space, it is thought that we can attract the life of our dreams.

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