They offer one-stop shopping and the breadth of service that small "boutique" stores cannot easily deliver -- amenities like in-house decorating services and in-stock merchandise that can be delivered the same day.
The festival of lights, Deepavali, is celebrated with the lighting of lamps in every house, decorating the floors with rangoli, and the lighting of firecrackers.
Daniel Craig had the hotel's Moulay Ismail suite, the best room in the house, decorated in rich ruby-red and emerald-green velvet, with sumptuous hand-printed silk wallpaper from Paris.
As we stood in his movie museum, a small hallway in his house decorated with Friday the 13th posters and stunt photographs, I asked him how he got the chance to be the star.
We chatted in his home museum, which is a small hallway in his house decorated with Friday the 13th posters and stunt photographs.
The library is one of the more colorful rooms in the house, decorated with finds from around Turkey and beyond.
I chose Chile because, having grown up in a house decorated with Chilean landscape paintings furnished by my favorite uncle -- the family adventurer -- I was eager to get to know his adopted country, and I hope to set a new novel there.
IN May 2006, this is what Frank Konsella's life looked like: he lived in Crested Butte, Colo., in a blue house decorated with ski posters and filled with real-life ski bums, himself included.
During that period and in the preceding weeks, families celebrate the spirits of departed loved ones in various ways, including erecting ofrendas (small altars) in their houses, decorating tombs, and eating skull-shaped candies and sweet breads.
Ms. Lekberg also holds a workshop in gingerbread-house decorating on Dec. 23.
A year and a half ago - everything in place, the house decorated to make your eyes water, the room waiting - they started trying to have a baby.
