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Fixing an Old Home: 3 Issues You Might Face
Older properties have many advantages over modern homes, as they tend to be unique, sturdy, and full of character. Despite its beauty and charm, an older property may have many problems you’d be wise to resolve to protect its structure, comfort, and value. If you are fixing up an old home, you must learn about the possible problems that might be lurking inside a property to make the appropriate repairs. Here are three issues you might face when renovating an older property. 1. Termite Damage A termite infestation is most homeowners’ worst nightmare. The unwanted pests can cause severe damage to any and all wood or wood-like components in a…
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Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness open doors to their tranquil beach house
Composed by Megan C. Hills, CNN When Hugh Jackman and his artist wife Deborra-Lee Furness made a decision to construct their dream property, it ended up getting a project six decades in the creating. Furness understood she desired a nominal, fashionable beach household to share with her spouse, their two small children and two canine — a household impressed by the pair’s travels across the entire world. The ensuing oasis, developed largely from scratch in East Hampton, New York, arrives with an infinity pool, gymnasium, artwork studio, film screening space and unlimited sights above the ocean. Opening the doors to the tranquil home for the December situation of Architectural Digest…
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Yan Pascal Tortelier on conducting: ‘Art and beauty enlighten, elevate and open unexpected doors’
For his return to the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra’s podium for the initially time in nearly 3 decades, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts a really evocative, impressionistic system this 7 days that includes selections from Suites Nos. 1 and 2 of George Bizet’s L’Arlésienne, an NSO co-commission by Angélica Negrón (En otra noche, en otro mundo) and the whole “choreographic symphony” of Maurice Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé. Tortelier spoke with DC Metro Theater Arts about his very long-standing friendship with NSO audio director Gianandrea Noseda, the “idyllic” week he expended with the orchestra, how he transmits music, his musical lineage—and not just his celebrated cellist father, the late Paul Tortelier—and his…
