Tag: family

A $52,000 tiny smart home looks like a space ship and can sleep a family of 4

by Marine Grinter on January 4, 2021 in News

Singapore’s Nestron is selling its newest prefabricated tiny home, the Cube Two.
The tiny home is furnished and totally move-in ready on arrival.
It’s also a smart home with an AI assistant connected to all devices.
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The tiny home of the future is here. Singapore’s Nestron released information and photos of its newest prototype for the Cube Two, a smart tiny home with an artificial-intelligence assistant.

The Cube Two, which is available for preorder, is on the larger side for tiny homes at 263 square feet. Nestron says it

Finger Lakes hotel The Lake House on Canandaigua designed like “a beloved family home”

by Marine Grinter on November 28, 2020 in Interior Design

The founders of design house The Brooklyn Home Company have created a hotel in New York’s Finger Lakes region that draws on their summers growing up on Canandaigua Lake.

The Lake House on Canandaigua is named after its location on one of the 11 long and narrow lakes that form the region aptly named the Finger Lakes.

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Above: a monolithic wood reception desk anchors the hotel lobby. Top image: The Lake House on Canandaigua is designed with an ambiguous

These Color-Coded Lockers Are a Genius Addition to a Family Home

by Marine Grinter on August 1, 2020 in News

From House Beautiful

Anyone who sees the Wentz family at home would have no trouble believing their space was designed specifically for them. Betsy Wentz, founder of Studio B design, has an office/command center at one of three kitchen islands (more on those later) while her husband, a doctor, can hole away in a study. The couple’s three boys and youngest girl bounce between sports in the backyard to movies on a sectional large enough to fit the whole gang (plus frequent friends) and the entire family spends most summer nights around the fire pit on

Explore an Art-Filled Connecticut Family Home That Balances Comfort and Sophistication

by Marine Grinter on July 31, 2020 in Furniture

As the quintessential country retreat for some of the 20th century’s most affluent families—with surnames like Rockefeller, Gimbel, and Post—the tony Connecticut town of Greenwich is littered with sprawling estates that wear their traditional aesthetic like a badge of honor. But in their 22,000-square-foot home, one West Coast family of five decided to shake off the dust of the old and infuse the house’s iconic structure with a dose of contemporary vigor.

“The house had such a strong point of view when we entered the project,” says New York–based designer Sara Story of the classic shingle-style property, which was originally

Rose Reisinger, who managed her husband’s home improvement business and family, dies

by Marine Grinter on July 18, 2020 in Home Improvement

The phrase “cleanliness is next to Godliness” can be found in a 1788 sermon by Methodist leader John Wesley. His saying would be personified by Rose Reisinger about 200 years later.

Outside her home near the intersection of South Luzerne and Fait avenues in the Canton neighborhood of East Baltimore, Mrs. Reisinger and her broom were a near-constant presence cleaning the curbs and sweeping up trash.

“God forbid there should be a leaf on the sidewalk,” daughter Virginia Deardorff recalled. “That was probably one of her daily routines. I remember that she wanted the people across the street to take