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Katherine Salant

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Award-winning syndicated columnist Katherine Salant began writing her “Housewatch” column for the Washington Post in 1994. Today it's syndicated as “Your New Home” by Inman News Features to more than 40 online and print media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel and Sacramento Bee. She speaks on issues such as building for step families, what neuroscience says about together space in a …

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Orlando show home designed with several generations in mind

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By Katherine Salant Verified
| Daily Republic Verified
ORLANDO, Fla. — To the casual observer, the first indication that there’s something different about the “reNEWable Living Home” on exhibition here are the colors on the outside. The house is designed in the traditional “Florida Mediterranean” style that’s found throughout the state, but the tile roof is charcoal, not orange, and the facade is not entirely stucco; it incorporates stonework that is a medley of light and darker shades of gray.
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WASHINGTON POST: Orlando show home is designed with the multigeneration family in mind

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By Katherine Salant Verified
| Metrostudy.com Verified
To the casual observer, the first indication that there’s something different about the “reNEWable Living Home” on exhibition here are the colors on the outside. The house is designed in the traditional “Florida Mediterranean” style that’s found throughout the state, but the tile roof is charcoal, not orange, and the facade is not entirely stucco; it incorporates stonework that is a medley of light and darker shades of gray.
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What do the classics of modern design teach us about choosing furniture?

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By Katherine Salant Verified
| The Washington Post Verified
Anyone who has ever sat in an Eames lounge chair and rested their feet on the ottoman raves about comfort. What is it about this iconic pair that’s so special and how can you get something like it for your house? I posed this question to Jeff Jenkins, an Alexandria-based interiors and furniture designer, as I began to try out some of the classic modern pieces in his personal collection. By today’s standards, the Eames pieces don’t look so unusual, Jenkins said.
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