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Name: Cynthia, her husband Graham, their three children Ben, Ruby Mae and Theo, and black lab George Location: Keene, Ontario, Canada The basics: 7 years, owned — 2,400 square feet Cynthia and her family can escape to their historic farmhouse slash flower farm for a quick weekend getaway . Having preserved and updated many a historic property , Cynthia and her husband turned their eyes towards this house and its large parcel of land. Keeping things simple and chic, the home blends old and new to great effect. Tell us a little (or a lot) about your home and the people who live there: Graham and my story started as an office romance more than twenty years ago - a marriage, three children, numerous pets, successful marketing careers , and many houses later, we are still excited to work together every day. We share a passion for growing flowers and renovating character homes . Together we have saved some remarkable spaces including a Victorian row house , a Tudor cottage, a turn-of...

Court of Appeals of Georgia. FOREST COVE APARTMENTS , LLC et al. v. WILSON. No. A15A0799.     Decided: August 21, 2015 Following the grant of their application for interlocutory appeal, Forest Cove Apartments , LLC and American Apartment Management Company (collectively, the “defendants”) appeal the trial court's order denying their motion for summary judgment in this premises liability action brought by Teresa R. Wilson after she fell from an upstairs bathroom while performing independent contractor work for the defendants at an apartment complex. Because the uncontroverted evidence of record shows that Wilson had equal knowledge of the dangerous condition that caused her fall, we must reverse the trial court's denial of summary judgment to the defendants. On appeal from the denial of summary judgment[,] the appellate court is to conduct a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there exists a genuine issue of material fact, and whether the undisputed facts, v...

This article originally appeared in the December 2006 issue of Architectural Digest. If it's true, as many Russians are fond of saying, that sprawling, tumultuous Moscow is nothing more than a bolshaya derevnya —a big village—then the heart of that village must certainly be a place like Ostozhenka. An old neighborhood whose vintage houses miraculously escaped the wrecking ball of Soviet- era urban planners , it was one of central Moscow's elite residential districts in the 19th century and lies within easy walking distance of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral. Since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, Ostozhenka has seen a boom in new luxury apartment buildings —at times to the detriment of historic structures—and the neighborhood, once again among the capital's most fashionable and expensive addresses, is now compared with London's Knightsbridge or Mayfair. Architect Dmitry Velikovsky and interior designer Gulia Galeeva have worked on many Ostozhenka pr...