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How do color experts come up with the hot colors for the new year? They look at the economy, politics, demographics, world events, consumerism, language and culture, the family and many more factors, says Aimee Desrosiers, a member of the Color Marketing Group (CMG), the worldwide authority on color. For her 2005 color predictions,
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Christopher Radko went from mailroom worker to holiday diva (he gets rushed and applauded in stores from coast to coast) after a trip to Poland to replace broken family heirlooms. The silver-lined glass baubles he had made were so popular with New York City friends that he had to head back to Europe to make more ornaments for his family. And a business was born.
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Winter holidays. Colder weather. Family get-togethers. Three reasons December's Room of the Month is an inviting great room designed by Heidi Toll and Velvet Hammerschmidt. It has everything a great room needs: a conversation area, a put-up-your-feet-by-the-fire spot and plenty of entertaining and dining space. Here's another reason that great rooms are here to stay: living areas that create a sense of togetherness speak to our need for safety, says design coordinator Summer Baltzer of Design on a Dime. "Over the last several years, people are giving up their formal living rooms and replacing them with rooms where everyone can congregate and spend more quality time together." More rooms in
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