Nantucket house for rent

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Nantucket Island Dream House

A stunning destination any time of the year and it's available for weekly bookings!

Spectacular brand new 9,000 sq. foot house in Shawkemo with panoramic views of the harbor. 7 bedrooms, 9 1/2 baths. Every amenity imaginable including outdoor pool and hot tub.

www.panacheprivee.com

WEEKLY RATE: $25,000 to $39,000

Okay, I'll keep on dreaming...

Celebrity homes: Diane Keaton's Beverly Hills Home

THE ACTRESS’S PASSION FOR ART AND DESIGN ARE ON DISPLAY IN HER BEVERLY HILLS RESIDENCE

Who says opportunity knocks only once? Not Diane Keaton, who ignored it once, then grabbed it with both hands when she again heard it tapping on her door. Opportunity in this case was not a choice part in a movie but something that was just as important to a woman whose passion is restoring old California homes: a Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills with a beautifully proportioned interior courtyard. She actually bought the house when it first came on the market at the beginning of the decade, but she backed out during escrow and let another buyer take it. “It needed a lot of work,” she explains, “and I got cold feet.” When it went up for sale again two years ago, she bought it a second time—this time for keeps. Read the rest of the article in Architectural Digest.

Celebrity homes for sale: Actor Ben Stiller

Actor Ben Stiller and his wife have placed their compound in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills on the market for $12,500,000.

Check out a beautiful slideshow of the listing here.

If I won the lottery...

I MIGHT CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THIS TRADITIONAL MANSION ON LAKE MICHIGAN...

Or I might just live in the pool house...

Photography by Peter Aaron/Estol

Architecture by Robert A. M. Stern Architects/Interior Design by Victoria Hagan Interior

READ THE ARTICLE IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.

Sophisticated French Country Design

Designer Cathy Kincade used antique accessories and smoldering colors to turn this desert home in Scottsdale into an old-world getaway. The house has a European feel as if the owners have traveled the world and collected all this beautiful objects. The use of stones, dark woods and rich colors give this vacation home just the French Country look the owners wanted.

Read more about this home in House Beautiful.

Coastal Living's 2009 Idea Cottage: Space-Savvy Design

Right-Size Living

The next big thing in architecture is right-size living. That means using money-saving, environmentally sound materials to build a smaller but savvier house in which no square inch is squandered yet luxuries still abound. With its eco-friendly construction and beach-chic feel, the Idea Cottage in South Carolina, shows how to live large in a small footprint.

Design Trick: Pull the palette all the way through a room―essential for cohesion in an open space. Here, a poppy-orange chair and plum pillows echo the stairwell and den beyond.

Favorite Detail: The bold portrait by Molly B. Right, fashioned entirely from bottlecaps (even the eyes!). So intricate up close, so striking from afar.

Favorite Detail: tiling an entire wall, not just the backsplash.

Designer Trick: Paint every surface―walls, trim, and bookcases―one rich color like this dark eggplant for a seamless look.

Favorite Detail: Planting between pavers. Soften hardscape with low-maintenance strips of green between easy-to-install concrete squares.