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Checkerboard motif a winner at Green's
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Checkerboard motif a winner at Green's

By Carleton Varney

If you haven’t been to the Green’s Pharmacy Luncheonette lately, you’ll find that the Palm Beach breakfast and lunch hangout has a new look that’s being admired by the faithful.
Coloring Books, Dollhouses Nurture Creativity
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Coloring Books, Dollhouses Nurture Creativity

By Carleton Varney

Lately, believe it or not, I have been busy creating coloring books. In fact, I have just completed a new one called ''Color the Greenbrier Beautiful.'' It is filled with 27 pages of original illustrations to...
Wake Up a Room With a Top-Off of Coffee Color
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Wake Up a Room With a Top-Off of Coffee Color

By Carleton Varney

These days, it seems, every street corner has a coffee place, whether it’s a Dunkin’, a Starbucks or some other brand. And so it is in the terminals of airports, where coffee seems to be...
The Color Party is Always on With Fiesta Dinnerware
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The Color Party is Always on With Fiesta Dinnerware

By Carleton Varney

It’s fiesta time -- or at least Fiesta dinnerware time. Upon entering Tamarack, visitors see front and center a Fiesta dinnerware display — a large one, indeed. The West Virginia manufacturer known as The Homer...
Of Palm Trees and Pineapples
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Of Palm Trees and Pineapples

By Carleton Varney

Every time I drive along the sea on Palm Beach’s South Ocean Boulevard, I enjoy seeing the stone ornaments on entrance columns flanking the gates of the beautiful estates. Some of those are in the...
Fanciful Inspiration Flows From the Phlox
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Fanciful Inspiration Flows From the Phlox

By Carleton Varney

My sister, Vivian, who lives outside of Seattle in a small country town, recently sent me a text with a photograph of the phlox flowers in her garden. The pink, white, magenta and violet colors...
Try a Color Scheme as American as Red, White and Blue
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Try a Color Scheme as American as Red, White and Blue

By Carleton Varney

Saturday is the Fourth of July, when we’ll celebrate the red, white and blue, even if this year we’re doing it a little differently because of the continuing health crisis. So it is with much...
Add Well-Chosen Jolts of Color to Avoid the ‘Empty-Fridge Look’
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Add Well-Chosen Jolts of Color to Avoid the ‘Empty-Fridge Look’

By Carleton Varney

I may be exaggerating a bit, but the model apartments I’ve seen lately definitely say the empty-fridge look is well entrenched, especially in South Florida. White rooms, of course, have been around for years, of...
Toys of Olde Bring Fond Memories
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Toys of Olde Bring Fond Memories

By Carleton Varney

Whatever happened to Raggedy Ann and, of course, her brother, Raggedy Andy? When I was a little boy in the 1940s — back in a world without credit cards, cell phones and drones — Raggedy...