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This gorgeous, well-maintained home is a gem in the Northgreen Community. With 1,570 square feet, this home offers three bedrooms, a pretty kitchen with plenty of counterspace, a greatroom with fireplace, dining room and two full baths. All are exquisitely decorated. This home is situated on a cul-de-sac and has unbelievable outdoor living spaces that include a
screened porch and enormous, partially covered deck. There’s also a detached studio/office/workshop. For more information, or a private tour, call Nancy Liipfert Associates, Inc. at 252.937.7000.
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Deck overlooks gorgeous outside view.
Right at Home: Decor inspired by creepy crawlies By KIM COOK Associated Press
Many would agree with naturalist David Attenborough that nature “is the greatest source of visual beauty.” And that includes the creepy crawlies: From snakes’ skins to the intricate physiology of the smallest bug, we can’t help but be impressed by the beauty of creatures that buzz, flit and slither. Artists and designers have long used insects, reptiles and other small animals as inspiration. Let’s grab our nets and catch a few of the most intriguing recent examples: In his “Pheromone” series, artist and designer Christopher Marley of Salem, Oregon, marries his passion for crisp design with a fascination for insects, sea organisms and birds by arranging them simply yet artfully on plain
creates birds, snakes and octopuses in vibrant, painterly hues, and then arranges the images on wallpaper. He backgrounds in shadow boxes. wants the walls to “come A stripey mountain kingsnake alive,” and there’s a sense of seems poised to meander north movement in each design. Snakes of the frame in which he resides. slither through backgrounds of A prion urchin looks like a tiny ink, acid green or ruby. (www. alien spacecraft, sprung from voutsa.com ) the confines of the ocean floor. In Osborne & Little’s exotic Dozens of beetles are arranged Komodo wallpaper collection, like the iridescent squadron of an holographic foil lizards skitter entomological army. Butterflies across a black, silver or gold form kaleidoscopic prisms. background. (www.osborneanThe displays are an arrestdlittle.com ) ing mix of science and art. The Los Angeles designer Paul specimens, which died of natural Marra’s Snake Lantern forges two or incidental causes, come from sinuous creatures into the form of museums, breeders and zoos a steel and brass pendant lantern. around the world, Marley says. (www.deringhall.com ) “Sharing the thrill of discovery Sculptor Mike Libby once AP Photo is one of the most driving aspects found a dead beetle and got to of my work,” he says. (www. thinking about how it had moved. Insectlab.com customizes preserved insect specimens, such as pheromonedesign.com ) He this staghorn beetle, with antique watch parts and mechanical components. New York artist George Venson See DECOR, 2C be-
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