Its long, trailing vines can spill over a hanging basket or shelf or creep along a credenza.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2026
Hilderbrand has colorful taper candles and funky candleholders all throughout her home, but none are featured like the all-blue tapers lining a credenza in her dining room.
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Aug. 2026
Yi offers her readers a dazzling cabinet of curiosities, exploring spirituality, desire and the desperate ways people grasp at each other.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Aug. 2026
At the height of the trend in the 2010s, gray walls, flooring, cabinets, and countertops were viewed as a white alternative that was easier to style and design with.
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Aug. 2026
According to correspondence reviewed by ProPublica, the Joint Staff disagreed with the Army acting secretary, who said in a February 2025 memo that the program was redundant and recommended Congress repeal the law that set it in motion.
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Megan Rose,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2026
Alexander Hamilton took the oath of office as the nation’s first secretary of the treasury.
Drapery panels in Jim Thompson’s Choisya, trimmed in Samuel & Sons, frame the couple’s vintage breakfront, which keeps Khouri’s Royal Crown Derby china within reach.
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Caroline Randall Williams,
Architectural Digest,
27 Aug. 2026
For many of us, stemmed crystal sparkled under the dimmed light of a breakfront while a collection of coffee mugs were stacked gingerly on top of each other in a shuttered cabinet.
Cole recalled how, at the close of those early shows, the drawings were removed from their frames and returned to Auckland, to be put back in their cupboards.
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Laura Preston,
New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2026
After that the science cupboard looks more threadbare, and NASA could use some major new mission starts.
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