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☆ This Cookbook Author Didn’t Want Any Old Kitchen. It Needed to be the Centerpiece.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Liz Kuball For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

There are a lot of differences between Portland Ore., and Palo Alto, Calif.: the weather, size, topography and cost of living, to name just a few. For Michelle Tam, food blogger, home chef and author of three cookbooks, the difference that mattered most was the food scene. In Palo Alto, where Tam has lived since 2006, “people aren’t as focused on food,” she says. In Portland, where she just moved into a newly built, modern second home, she says not only is there a vast array of restaurants across the whole city, but even the food carts are great. “It’s really easy to find any kind of food here,” she says.

Persons: Michelle Tam, Tam, “, ” Organizations: Portland Locations: Palo Alto, Calif, Portland

Joan Soranno and John Cook clicked from the start. They met when they were working as architects on a Frank Gehry-designed project in 1991 in Minneapolis and spent the ensuing decades as partners, first in work and then in marriage. Together, they have designed many award-winning cultural landmarks, from the Marlboro Music Reich Hall Rehearsal Building & Music Library in Vermont to the Bigelow Chapel at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

Persons: Joan Soranno, John Cook, Frank Gehry, Bigelow Organizations: Marlboro Music, Music Library, United Theological Seminary, the Twin Locations: Minneapolis, Vermont, the Twin Cities

Candace TaylorCandace Taylor is an editor and reporter covering luxury real estate for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to the Journal, she was a reporter and editor at the Real Deal, a real-estate trade publication. She has also worked at New York Magazine, the New York Sun and the New Haven Register. Candace graduated from Amherst College and has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Persons: Candace Taylor Candace Taylor, Candace Organizations: Wall Street, Real, New York Magazine, New York Sun, New Haven Register, Amherst College, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism

☆ He Wanted a Bold Home. She Preferred Understated. Here’s How They Made It Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Michal Czerwonka For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Christian Robert’s design style is modern European—he likes to be bold and take risks. His wife, Lauren Noecker, has more of an understated, classic California sensibility. The house, which the couple recently finished designing and building together for their family, embodies both these elements. Finished this past summer, the eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 6,900-square-foot house in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles cost around $4.14 million to build. It sits on a property they bought for $4.7 million in 2018.

Persons: Lauren Noecker Locations: European, California, Brentwood, Los Angeles

☆ Nancy Keates — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nancy KeatesNancy Keates is a reporter covering real estate, architecture and design for The Wall Street Journal. She has also covered travel, art, education and family issues. Before joining the Journal, she was Johannesburg correspondent and bureau chief for AP–Dow Jones, the international arm of the Dow Jones newswires. She then moved to Washington and subsequently covered international trade and finance. Nancy graduated from Cornell University and has an M.B.A degree from George Washington University.

Persons: Nancy Keates Nancy Keates, AP – Dow Jones, Dow Jones, Nancy Organizations: Wall Street, AP –, Cornell University, George Washington University Locations: Johannesburg, Washington

☆ This Idaho Town Could Become the Next Jackson Hole—but Don’t Tell Locals That
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Sofia Jaramillio For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ This Idaho Town Could Become the Next Jackson Hole—But Don’t Tell Locals That
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Sofia Jaramillio For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A House So Efficient the Power Company Owes the Owners Money
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Bob O Connor For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It was the open, modern style of the house in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston that first got one couple’s attention: a box made of clear-finished white cedar siding that seemed to float above a dark metal base, with large windows, panels of wood slats and high ceilings. But the main reason they paid $1.4 million for the 2,500-square-foot home was the technology.

Locations: West Roxbury, Boston

☆ ‘It’s Business in Front and a Party in Back’: Welcome to the Mullet House
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Vivian Johnson For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A Retired Opera Performer’s Next Big Act: Designing Houses
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Oliver Parini For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How Many Pavilions Is Too Many Pavilions? For This Homeowner, Three Was Just Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Gaming’s Top Execs Aren’t Playing Around When It Comes to Buying and Building Homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ He Leaned Modern. She Liked a Classic Look. ‘This House Is the Both of Us.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Jane Beiles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When people visit Michael and Mallory Bollinger’s newly built home in Lexington, KY., everyone has a different name for its style. Some are sure it’s Californian casual, while others call it a Kentucky farmhouse or classic Connecticut. That’s because the painted white brick house, which cost about $5 million to build and is 15,117 square feet, with five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and three half bathrooms, could fit any of those descriptions. It has a clean, modern, minimalist feel inside but a traditional exterior, with a front porch, low slung roof, black shutters, dormers and columns.

☆ After Her Husband’s Death, She Rebuilt Her Life by Building a New Home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Jenn Verrier For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Sue Deagle spent more than a year scouring neighborhoods nestled in a forest on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., before buying a 2-acre property in Great Falls, Va., in January 2019. It had a small A-frame house for $900,000 on a steep hill that backs up to a tributary stream of the Potomac River called Difficult Run. An apt metaphor, she thought at the time.

☆ A Florida Home Fit for a Pasta Queen—or At Least, the ‘Italian Martha Stewart’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photography Amy Mikler For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Nadia Caterina Munno is the self-proclaimed The Pasta Queen. It’s a title she’s used over the past three years to accumulate a combined six million followers on various social-media platforms, where she posts boisterous, often ironic videos of herself prancing around in her enormous, blue steel and brass home kitchen, making Italian food and laughing at others’ attempts at making Italian food. But Ms. Munno, 40, is aiming much higher than TikTok celebrity. “I want to be the Italian Martha Stewart,” says Ms. Munno. Her cookbook made the New York Times bestseller list in November and she’s working on a second one.

☆ A Theoretical Physicist Wanted His Seattle Home Devoid of Curves. ‘It’s The Influence of Linear Algebra on Me.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

On the surface, the some $1.8 million renovation of Dave Bacon and Cindy Wood Bacon’s Midcentury Modern home in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle was pretty straightforward: updating the kitchen, opening up the main living space and changing finishes. A closer look reveals a much more unusual project, dictated primarily by the character of its owner.

☆ A Massachusetts Couple Traded Their Historic Farmhouse for Something Much More Modern
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Nancy Keates | Photographs Bob O Connor For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Donna Morgan calls the ladies’ dresses she used to design for her eponymous clothing line “conservative”—the kind of reasonably priced, colorful garments you might see at a dinner party in the South or on a bevy of bridesmaids. But Ms. Morgan has always dressed herself in modern, minimalist, Japanese-inspired, mostly black clothes. “I never wore any of my own dresses,” she says.

☆ How Their First House Became This North Carolina Couple’s Forever Home
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For the past four decades, Tom Allin and Lesley Allin have lived across the country and the world, as Mr. Allin worked his way up the management chain in Europe at McDonald’s , became CEO of Jollibee Foods Corporation in Manila and then served as the Chief Veterans Experience Officer in Washington, D.C., under President Obama. But the modern house the couple just built next to a creek in Durham, N.C. is the first place they’ve moved where they know they’re going to stay.

☆ An Indoor Pool Area Offers an Escape Without Ever Leaving the House
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Steven Romero and Martie Kilmer are well-versed in bathhouses. Mr. Romero, 58, who retired as an eBay vice president and founded Critical Path Software, first encountered ancient bathing facilities as an exchange student in Istanbul in high school. Ms. Kilmer, 53, a sculptor and home stylist, learned to appreciate the creation of bathing ceremonies in a drier version from sauna-like steam baths known as maqii in Alaska, where her parents, both teachers, moved from Oregon when she was in high school.

☆ James Taylor’s Childhood Home Was a Ghost of Itself, Until a New York Couple Saved It
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the song “Copperline,” James Taylor sings about the Morgan Creek neighborhood where he grew up in Chapel Hill, N.C., lamenting the overdevelopment that has since changed the area. “I tried to go back, as if I could, all spec houses and plywood, tore up and tore up good,” the song goes. The lyrics refer to “the McMansions speculators tend to drop everywhere,” Mr. Taylor explained in an email.

In October 2012, The Wall Street Journal launched its Mansion section with the goal of covering high-end real estate in the U.S. and around the world. It has been a busy 10 years. Market observers were shocked that year, when the family of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev paid $88 million for a penthouse at Manhattan’s 15 Central Park West. But that deal turned out to be just the beginning. There were 48 sales of $50 million or more in 2021, up from five in 2012, according to data from real-estate appraiser Jonathan Miller .

☆ U.S. Ski Resorts Pursue Extensive Expansions, Giving Local Home Prices a Major Lift
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mary Bourke and Michael Margolis weren’t even thinking of buying a ski house. But when they heard about the sale of a new development of 1,350-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bathroom A-frames going for $579,000 apiece, right on the edge of Saddleback Mountain in Rangeley, Maine, they put money down within a week, closing on the purchase in June. Saddleback had reopened its ski operations in December 2020 after an almost five-year closure. Since then, the new owner, Arctaris Impact Investors, LLC, has invested more than $30 million to revamp the base lodge, build a mid-mountain lodge, add chairlifts and improve snow-making. It is now embarking on a variety of real-estate developments, including the A-frame village, and it plans to build a new hotel, says Jonathan Tower, the company’s co-founder and managing partner.

☆ As the City’s Population Rises, Colorado Springs Sees Home Prices Soar
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jack Harrison says he never would have lived in downtown Colorado Springs when he first moved to the city in 1993. But after moving away and living in California for 11 years, Mr. Harrison, who started his own private equity and venture capital business, moved back to Colorado Springs in 2020. In June, he bought a 2,700-square-foot loft in a four-story building in downtown Colorado Springs for $925,000. “I felt comfortable buying in downtown because it’s changed so significantly,” says Mr. Harrison, 67. He says there are 12 coffee shops within a few blocks of his home and he sees a lot of California and Texas license plates on cars now.

☆ A Lake House Is Nice. A Lake House With Mountain Views Is Even Better.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Eric Sprunk announced his retirement as the chief operating officer at Nike in February 2020, he had no uncertainty about where he would be spending much of his time: Flathead Lake. Mr. Sprunk, 58, and his wife Blair Sprunk, 55, had just recently finished building a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom mountain modern style home with a boathouse, barn and guesthouse right on the shores of the crystal clear lake, framed by snow-capped mountains, about 70 miles north of Missoula, Mont., and about 11 miles outside the small town of Polson.

☆ Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, an Architectural Icon, Arrives at a Crossroads
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Nancy Keates | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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