Category: Exterior Design

the next step in Google’s evolving smart home

by Marine Grinter on November 23, 2020 in Exterior Design

Welcome to T3’s Google Home Hub review – and right out of the gate we should say that since this review was originally written, the Home Hub as been rebranded as the Nest Hub. It’s still exactly the same device though.

After the Amazon Echo Show, the Google Home Hub was almost inevitable: a Google Home smart speaker, with a display attached. But is the extra screen (and the extra cost) worth the bother? We’ll tell you all you need to know in our definitive Google Home Hub review.

We’ve been querying

Walmart heirs fund startup developing at-home COVID-19 Tests

by Marine Grinter on November 21, 2020 in Exterior Design

FOX Business’ Gerri Willis on how workers and workplaces will be impacted when the coronavirus vaccine is released.

The billionaire Walton family that controls Walmart Inc. is among a group of investors backing a startup aiming to design at-home Covid-19 tests to sell for as little as $10 at the retail giant’s stores and elsewhere.

NowDiagnostics Inc., based 20 miles south of Walmart’s corporate headquarters, has filed requests for emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a Covid-19 antibody blood test, according to the Springdale, Ark., company.

FDA WILL CONSIDER PFIZER VACCINE FOR EMERGENCY USE ON DECEMBER

The home decor trends that will be popular in 2021, according to interior designers

by Marine Grinter on November 19, 2020 in Exterior Design

Modsy’s Trend Report was released on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Modsy released its Trend Report for 2021, which predicts what home decor trends will be popular in the coming year.
Experts think that people will embrace comfortable and traditional furniture to make their homes more welcoming, as well as natural-looking materials and lighter wood.
Sustainable and affordable designs are also becoming more popular.
Designers are expecting to see more colour in homes in 2021 as people tire of a neutral colour scheme.
Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories.

Like anything else, home decor evolves. And although the bigger shifts are more

Naples Art & Design Expo opens Nov. 19

by Marine Grinter on November 17, 2020 in Exterior Design

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The delayed Naples Art & Design Expo opens Thursday, Nov. 19, a double-hinged door to the importance of its L-shaped neighborhood behind Naples Boulevard:

There is a vendor or manufacturer for nearly every aspect of home design — upholstery, stone, furniture, draperies and cabinetry — inside the busy buildings in the boxy district behind Naples Boulevard.
Similarly, the art studios that nestle against the design trade businesses hold everything from glass sculpture to classical portraits to small ceramics, dyed fabrics and wall-gulping abstracts.

With the same ingenuity that married peanut butter

Several Summerlin neighborhoods near completion

by Marine Grinter on November 15, 2020 in Exterior Design

More than one dozen neighborhoods within the master-planned community of Summerlin are inching toward complete sell-out with fewer than 100 homes remaining in these neighborhoods.

According to Danielle Bisterfeldt, vice president of marketing for Summerlin, buying a home in a master-planned community like Summerlin is always a smart move given that homes in planned communities tend to hold their value better thanks to thoughtful development that ensures overall aesthetics and design and access to abundant amenities.

“Close-out homes in neighborhoods nearing sell-out are often priced to sell, yet another perk of buying in one of the community’s many neighborhoods nearing