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Feminine Mystique: Shabby chic touches abound in Watervliet townhouse By Larissa Lytwyn/Life@Home Sometimes the right fit comes down to personal style over size. For Patricia Coyle, a cozy Watervliet...
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Diamond in the Rough DIY couple transform home By Larissa Lytwyn/Life@Home When Sandy and Dave Blanchard first laid eyes on their Amsterdam home several years ago, it didn’t impress them. “Everything...
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Color Saves the Day You need to live in a home for a while to know its palette By Janet Reynolds/Life@Home When Lucianna Samu, an interior designer and our Design Defined columnist, moved into a 19th...
View Article@Home With: The Veces’ home has nods to the past and the present
Living History By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Joe and Gina Vece are passionate about Troy. They grew up there, they raised their kids there, and their house is decorated with little nods to the city’s...
View Article@Home With: An 18th-century dream house transformed into a 21st-century dream...
All Work and Play By Bryanna Snyder/Life@Home Not many of us get to grow up to live in our actual dream house. But Jim Pettit got to do just that. He grew up right around the corner from the...
View Article@Home With: Amanda Crames’ eclectic home in Saratoga Springs
Curating a Life By Janet Reynolds/Life@Home Amanda Crames likes to mix and match, a trait that is evident as soon as you drive up the driveway to her 1849 farmhouse. Brightly-colored chairs sit next to...
View Article@Home with Barbara Nelson and Tim Dufel
East Meets West — Two arty architects make a hip home By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Barbara Nelson and Tim Dufel may live in Troy, but their home has a distinct California vibe. “I was raised for the...
View Article@Home with: A trackside home gets a makeover
Life by the Fast Track By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Brien and Cindy Hollowood have a perfect perch from which to observe the behind-the-scenes activity of the Saratoga horse races. Their backyard ends...
View Article@Home with Jennifer and Richard Lanne
The Art of Layering: Mixing and matching makes this 18th-century home stand out By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Jennifer and Richard Lanne bought their Ballston Spa house 10 years ago, and while they’ve...
View Article@Home: Settling down in North Greenbush
Switching it Up by Bryanna Snyder/Life@Home Before moving into their newest home, John and Kathy Bourdeau got rid of everything they had. “We bought all new furniture,” Kathy says. “We hadn’t done...
View Article@Home with: A DIY country home in Gansevoort
Handy Home By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home The early-19th-century Federal brick home of Rudy and Nancy Woykowski has, over the past three decades, been almost completely restored, with much of the work...
View ArticleEssay: There’s a new boss in town
Cat Scratch Fever By Betsy Bitner/Life@Home The Animal Shelter Annex at Clifton Park Center seemed harmless enough — a storefront filled with cages containing cats and kittens in need of a home. I’d...
View ArticleIsland Life: A home in Guilderland opens up
By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home When the Stutos moved into their Guilderland house in 2003, everything was new. The previous owners had only been in the house a year before the Stutos bought it. “They...
View ArticleHow the West Home Was Won
A lovely country home in Loudonville is still new after 25 years By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Tom West was late to meet his wife, Reneé, at a fundraiser one night. This was before cell phones, and so...
View ArticleThe Krasses take matters of their house into their own hands
Raising the Roof By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home They say if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. When Paul and J’Lene Krass consulted several different contractors to remodel the...
View ArticleA Niskayuna house is the perfect renovation lab for this interior designer
A Do-Over Dream By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home The creative juices flow freely in the DeLaCruz family. Valerie DeLaCruz is an interior designer, author of Life@Home’s Home Decor@518 blog, photographer and...
View ArticleHome Life: Now Where Did I Hide that Money?
By Megan Willis/Life@Home While I’ve always been fairly thrifty and mostly debt-free, I also know this truth to be self-evident: I will spend every dollar in my wallet and obliterate any balance in my...
View ArticleAn Arts and Crafts home in Ballston Spa
In the Craftsman Tradition By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Simplicity. That’s the defining principle behind the Arts and Crafts design movement. And John Olenik fell in love with it about 10 years ago. “I...
View ArticleThe Vadneys live life in Troy with a (re)purpose
Past Meets Present By Janet Reynolds/Life@Home Dan and Joanne Vadney had lived in Troy for 12 years before a friend told them about this house being on the market. While some might have found its...
View ArticleAn Amsterdam man imagines a world where nature is protected
Strawberry Fields Forever By Janet Reynolds/Life@Home The land was here thousands of years before Jeff Leon first set foot on it in 1968. And his land, a 120-acre farm and preserve in Amsterdam, will...
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