The couple, house hunting in other
neighborhoods that day, only stopped at the open house to visit with their real
estate agent . But beyond the old kitchen and the shag carpeting they saw
possibilities in the 9-foot ceilings, original oak floors and 300-foot-deep lot
. They said the neighborhood -- not far from downtown, Interstate 81, Meachem
Field and the ducks at Webster Pond -- sealed the deal.
The Halls bought the home from a retired police officer who pulled up the shag and refinished the oak floors as a housewarming gift. He also told them the home's first owner paid a craftsman five pounds of butter -- a luxury during World War II -- to lay terrazzo tiles in the basement, where the Halls now have their washer and dryer, workbench and tankless hot water heater.
The Halls updated the kitchen and two bathrooms, and refurbished the home inside and out. Now that their two children have grown, they are house hunting again and the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is on the market for $169,900.
Visitors enter through the enclosed front porch, which the Halls use as a home office. The porch has an oak parquet ceiling and knotty pine walls.
A French door opens to the foyer and offers a first peek at the original oak floors. An oak staircase to the second floor starts in the foyer, beside one of several nearly floor-to ceiling windows also found in the adjacent living room and in the formal dining room.
A wide arch divides the living room from the formal dining room. The dining room accommodates a long table, sideboard and hutch, and has built-in shelves and a chair rail.The oreck XL professional air purifier,
"We've done a lot of entertaining with friends and family," Mark said. "It's not unusual for us to have 40 or 50 people in the house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And, believe it or not, you can have that many people and not feel crowded."
After gutting the kitchen, the Halls added new oak floors and maple cabinets with under-cabinet lights. Some upper cabinets have glass fronts. The countertops are laminate and a center island seats five. Stainless steel appliances include two gas ovens, a four-burner gas range, built-in microwave and side-by-side refrigerator with water and ice in the door. A pocket door hides a walk-in pantry.
Two French pocket doors open to a light-filled family room with a marble-front gas fireplace, oak floors, recessed lighting and room for a sectional sofa and other furniture.
Two sliding glass doors in the family room open to a composite wraparound multi-level deck edged with brick pavers. A detached one-car garage sits in the fenced yard at the end of the asphalt driveway. At the far end of the backyard is a brick fireplace/barbecue and stone patio.
"They say the first image you remember is the image that rules your life," said Brown, a Memphis-based artist. "I remember my mother redoing the floor in the kitchen, and they pulled the linoleum back and there was old linoleum under that linoleum. I remember looking at all these floral and architectural patterns and thinking, 'Wow.' And from that day on I wanted to deal with the surface of things.
She's working on a one-woman show titled "Motherland," a tribute to her late mother,High quality stone mosaic tiles. V.T. Brown, who died in September. From her studio inside Marshall Arts, Brown mixes media, using paint and architectural ornaments applied to a substrate. The result is a form of work known as "outsider art."
"I'm going to paint her life story on objects," said Brown of her latest work. "I'm embellishing it with metal and wood and architectural ornaments. The architectural ornaments have meaning and serve as symbolism to chronicle her life, especially the last seven years that walks through her journey with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's disease."
After 15 years in commercial design, Brown moved to Germany and traveled to countries ranging from Italy to Malaysia to Hong Kong. She worked in visual merchandising, product design and set design, for a time designing sets for German TV game shows. She found herself immersed "in this whole art world of publicists, gallerists, artists."
In 2005, she returned to her hometown of Memphis, where she'd attended public schools and earned a communication arts degree from what was then Memphis State University.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. Since then, she's done commissioned work for the Women's Foundation and a public art installation at Douglass High School that included an 18-by-18-foot porcelain tile mural. She's created public gardens Downtown with the backing of the Center City Commission and shown her work at venues ranging from Hope Gallery in Caritas Village to Marshall Arts.
Though she loved her life abroad, Brown is happy to be home, keeping true to herself and true to her roots.High quality stone mosaic tiles.
"I love the way an object can reach out and do so much more than a painting," she said. "I'm very deep into the building of my mother's legacy now, building from the objects and symbols that surrounded her life. It's a way of telling a story, trying to inform the public about who and what she was, especially this journey through her Alzheimer's and who she became."
I like that it's green and it's open. I like that it's very international — there are people from all over the world here, a lot of blended influences. I see it all around Memphis, where people are just hungry for more, more of something different and progressive. A lot of stakeholders and a lot of people are coming in here and trying to change the whole viewpoint. We have a rich future and we have an enormously rich past, and when you get all these talented people together with the blending of the minds, I think we can become one of the great metropolises.
More progressive thinking, better education — for us to have a very good school system, for us to attract more people in the arts, not just in music. I know Memphis is a music town, but I'd like to see a lot more investment in young artists. I think we put a lot of resources into our past legacy, and we have a very deep, beautiful treasure trove of history, but I would like to see the city invest in this young talent and let them take us to the next step of what we could become in music and film and art.
Milton Glaser, my professor and lifelong mentor at the School of Visual Arts (in New York City,Klaus Multiparking is an industry leader in innovative parking system technology. where she was chosen to study with him). I thank this man for shaping my life. He taught me one of most important things: to not be like a hedgehog and go every day into the same office and do the same thing. He taught me to be like a fox and go out and do new things and exciting things. Basically, he told me to live the way that genetically I think I was set up for — to take risks and try to see something different in the world.
The interior of the Marlowe was designed and is being executed by Edgar and Tiffany West at East Indies Home Interior Design. Their tropical retreat design style is focused on creating a relaxing, welcoming ambiance that takes full advantage of the Marlowe's light-filled floor plan. A spice island color palette of clove, cinnamon, creamy neutrals and clear translucent tropical colors such as papaya, lemon and Caribbean sky enhances the tropical experience.
From the courtyard, the Marlowe's detailed entry foyer opens into the great room that features a unique coffered ceiling detail and a wall of sliding glass doors angled like the bow of a ship sailing into the outdoor living area. East Indies Home's own collection of patio furnishings will be strategically arranged to make the most of the Marlowe's indoor-outdoor lifestyle. The outdoor living area includes an immense covered lanai, as well as an optional outdoor kitchen, pool and spa.
All appointments, from the kitchen's high-end appliances and cabinetry, to the convenience of three separate wet bars and dedicated computer areas, create a natural flow throughout the floor plan. A cabana style guest suite includes a private entrance off the courtyard. A second double door entry provides access from the courtyard to the study.
East Indies carries the tropical retreat experience into the master bedroom. Custom bedding and window treatments will feature specially imported Thai silks, including those from the Jim Thompson Collection in Bangkok. The master suite also features a Theodore Alexander king-size bed, a comfortable relaxation area and a private spa bath.
The Halls bought the home from a retired police officer who pulled up the shag and refinished the oak floors as a housewarming gift. He also told them the home's first owner paid a craftsman five pounds of butter -- a luxury during World War II -- to lay terrazzo tiles in the basement, where the Halls now have their washer and dryer, workbench and tankless hot water heater.
The Halls updated the kitchen and two bathrooms, and refurbished the home inside and out. Now that their two children have grown, they are house hunting again and the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is on the market for $169,900.
Visitors enter through the enclosed front porch, which the Halls use as a home office. The porch has an oak parquet ceiling and knotty pine walls.
A French door opens to the foyer and offers a first peek at the original oak floors. An oak staircase to the second floor starts in the foyer, beside one of several nearly floor-to ceiling windows also found in the adjacent living room and in the formal dining room.
A wide arch divides the living room from the formal dining room. The dining room accommodates a long table, sideboard and hutch, and has built-in shelves and a chair rail.The oreck XL professional air purifier,
"We've done a lot of entertaining with friends and family," Mark said. "It's not unusual for us to have 40 or 50 people in the house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And, believe it or not, you can have that many people and not feel crowded."
After gutting the kitchen, the Halls added new oak floors and maple cabinets with under-cabinet lights. Some upper cabinets have glass fronts. The countertops are laminate and a center island seats five. Stainless steel appliances include two gas ovens, a four-burner gas range, built-in microwave and side-by-side refrigerator with water and ice in the door. A pocket door hides a walk-in pantry.
Two French pocket doors open to a light-filled family room with a marble-front gas fireplace, oak floors, recessed lighting and room for a sectional sofa and other furniture.
Two sliding glass doors in the family room open to a composite wraparound multi-level deck edged with brick pavers. A detached one-car garage sits in the fenced yard at the end of the asphalt driveway. At the far end of the backyard is a brick fireplace/barbecue and stone patio.
"They say the first image you remember is the image that rules your life," said Brown, a Memphis-based artist. "I remember my mother redoing the floor in the kitchen, and they pulled the linoleum back and there was old linoleum under that linoleum. I remember looking at all these floral and architectural patterns and thinking, 'Wow.' And from that day on I wanted to deal with the surface of things.
She's working on a one-woman show titled "Motherland," a tribute to her late mother,High quality stone mosaic tiles. V.T. Brown, who died in September. From her studio inside Marshall Arts, Brown mixes media, using paint and architectural ornaments applied to a substrate. The result is a form of work known as "outsider art."
"I'm going to paint her life story on objects," said Brown of her latest work. "I'm embellishing it with metal and wood and architectural ornaments. The architectural ornaments have meaning and serve as symbolism to chronicle her life, especially the last seven years that walks through her journey with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's disease."
After 15 years in commercial design, Brown moved to Germany and traveled to countries ranging from Italy to Malaysia to Hong Kong. She worked in visual merchandising, product design and set design, for a time designing sets for German TV game shows. She found herself immersed "in this whole art world of publicists, gallerists, artists."
In 2005, she returned to her hometown of Memphis, where she'd attended public schools and earned a communication arts degree from what was then Memphis State University.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. Since then, she's done commissioned work for the Women's Foundation and a public art installation at Douglass High School that included an 18-by-18-foot porcelain tile mural. She's created public gardens Downtown with the backing of the Center City Commission and shown her work at venues ranging from Hope Gallery in Caritas Village to Marshall Arts.
Though she loved her life abroad, Brown is happy to be home, keeping true to herself and true to her roots.High quality stone mosaic tiles.
"I love the way an object can reach out and do so much more than a painting," she said. "I'm very deep into the building of my mother's legacy now, building from the objects and symbols that surrounded her life. It's a way of telling a story, trying to inform the public about who and what she was, especially this journey through her Alzheimer's and who she became."
I like that it's green and it's open. I like that it's very international — there are people from all over the world here, a lot of blended influences. I see it all around Memphis, where people are just hungry for more, more of something different and progressive. A lot of stakeholders and a lot of people are coming in here and trying to change the whole viewpoint. We have a rich future and we have an enormously rich past, and when you get all these talented people together with the blending of the minds, I think we can become one of the great metropolises.
More progressive thinking, better education — for us to have a very good school system, for us to attract more people in the arts, not just in music. I know Memphis is a music town, but I'd like to see a lot more investment in young artists. I think we put a lot of resources into our past legacy, and we have a very deep, beautiful treasure trove of history, but I would like to see the city invest in this young talent and let them take us to the next step of what we could become in music and film and art.
Milton Glaser, my professor and lifelong mentor at the School of Visual Arts (in New York City,Klaus Multiparking is an industry leader in innovative parking system technology. where she was chosen to study with him). I thank this man for shaping my life. He taught me one of most important things: to not be like a hedgehog and go every day into the same office and do the same thing. He taught me to be like a fox and go out and do new things and exciting things. Basically, he told me to live the way that genetically I think I was set up for — to take risks and try to see something different in the world.
The interior of the Marlowe was designed and is being executed by Edgar and Tiffany West at East Indies Home Interior Design. Their tropical retreat design style is focused on creating a relaxing, welcoming ambiance that takes full advantage of the Marlowe's light-filled floor plan. A spice island color palette of clove, cinnamon, creamy neutrals and clear translucent tropical colors such as papaya, lemon and Caribbean sky enhances the tropical experience.
From the courtyard, the Marlowe's detailed entry foyer opens into the great room that features a unique coffered ceiling detail and a wall of sliding glass doors angled like the bow of a ship sailing into the outdoor living area. East Indies Home's own collection of patio furnishings will be strategically arranged to make the most of the Marlowe's indoor-outdoor lifestyle. The outdoor living area includes an immense covered lanai, as well as an optional outdoor kitchen, pool and spa.
All appointments, from the kitchen's high-end appliances and cabinetry, to the convenience of three separate wet bars and dedicated computer areas, create a natural flow throughout the floor plan. A cabana style guest suite includes a private entrance off the courtyard. A second double door entry provides access from the courtyard to the study.
East Indies carries the tropical retreat experience into the master bedroom. Custom bedding and window treatments will feature specially imported Thai silks, including those from the Jim Thompson Collection in Bangkok. The master suite also features a Theodore Alexander king-size bed, a comfortable relaxation area and a private spa bath.
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