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River Hills garden has edible landscaping, pond, pollinator plants
Debra and Steve Koenig describe the 5 acres that surround their River Hills home in various ways. She calls it a labor of love. He calls it a tremendous amount of work. They both say it’s central to their lives. “There’s no question about that. We spend most of our time in the growing months working on our property. It takes constant work when you have a property this big,” she said. “Gardening mixes the pleasures of physical exertion, intellectual stimulation, problem solving, creativity and beauty. Neither of us gardened growing up and we have no formal training, but we both love the outdoors, and we were influenced by people close to us…
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South Hills Home Show gives residents “one-stop-shop” for renovation | South Hills Living
By Trista Thurston Although trapped at home through the pandemic, lots of of us seemed at our surroundings and questioned, “how can I make this greater?” Renovation tasks and gardening alike flourished in the course of lockdown orders, and the momentum does not look to be slowing down. Now that our recent wave of COVID-19 is seemingly permitting up, folks are coming out of isolation once again to beautify their particular areas. Expending on residence improvement projects amplified by an average of $745 for each domestic in 2020, according to a HomeAdvisor’s 2021 Condition of House Shelling out report. With holidays and other journey options place on keep, quite a…
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Versailles-inspired estate in Holmby Hills sells for $16M
110 N. Mapleton Drive (Opendoor, iStock) Talk about an only-in-L.A. pedigree. A Neoclassical chateau built to resemble Marie Antoinette’s estate at Versailles, designed for the family that owned Architectural Digest and known as a attract for The Weeknd and Jennifer Lopez fetched $16.4 million in a sale that closed this week. Have to have a lot more? The vendor of the home, situated at 110 N. Mapleton Generate in Holmby Hills, was heiress Patrice Tarsey, daughter of a person of the founding entrepreneurs of the Dunes Resort on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s. 110 N. Mapleton Travel in Holmby Hills (Opendoor) The purchaser was a nearby developer who…
