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Designing the perfect cabin kitchen or bath. By Janice Brewster With their expense and critical importance to a cabin, kitchens and baths are spaces every homeowner wants to get right. A design misstep in these spaces can lead to daily annoyances at best and unsafe conditions at worst. Careful consideration of these spaces when you’re building new or renovating an existing cabin will pay off in ease of use, efficiency and comfort. Take a look at our tips below, but also consider working with a kitchen and bath designer. Because design pros configure layouts and specify materials and fixtures every day, they can offer solutions and ideas that might not occur to you. In the kitchen Know what your kitchen budget is? Good, because that number will help you make decisions throughout the design process. If you’re building a new cabin, Juanita Galliford from Bosch Home Appliances offers this tip: “After taking into account appliances, cabinetry, flooring, plumbing and more, I would estimat...

Relais Castellucio Palusse , Città della Pieve." width="334" height="500" /> Relais Castelluccio Palusse , Città della Pieve. Photo: Slow Italy. This article is a summary of our several recent trips to Umbria . We have stayed in different places and from those have selected our top 5 favorite country B&B s for you. Actually, the term ‘B&B’ is an understatement to qualify these typical Umbrian relais . Set in an old Umbrian farmhouse , restored historic mansion or castle , they are the kind of places where you feel immediately at home, as if you were staying at a relative’s place while being spoiled by your dolce zia or zio . All of these country houses have in common that they are family-owned and owner managed , which vouches for genuine quality and exceptional hospitality . The family also lives on the premises , which is an additional guarantee for customer care and excellent service. All of them are very small structures, with less than ...

While your chances of calling the White House home are slim to none, you can feel as important as the commander in chief — if only for a few days — by staying in a presidential suite. The term is widely believed to have originated in the 1910s during Woodrow Wilson's presidency because of room specifications (some now standard such as an en-suite bathroom) that he required on trips away from Washington. Now, it typically refers to the largest and most expensive living quarters in a luxury hotel. Popular swanky accommodations , running thousands of dollars a night, can be found at the Bellagio Las Vegas — complete with its own indoor garden and fountain; California's The Beverly Hilton — with a library and ornate fireplace; and the Mandarin Hotel New York — with handcrafted rugs and upholstered silk walls . In the Lehigh Valley, the newest posh pad is at the Renaissance Allentown Hotel , a $65 million structure that opened this year in the heart of the city's booming rede...