Dear Reader
Summer Lovin’
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I just returned from an afternoon of scouting, and oh-happy-day, a copy of D Home was in each house I visited. Two copies were on bedside tables, one was splayed over a caramel-colored leather chair in a handsome library, another was tucked into a Prada tote for airplane reading, and one was in a green-and-white ’70s garden room. Yes, I love our subscribers!
And I predict that this issue, which arrives at the peak of the summer, will be the best-read issue of the year. Whether we’re raising children or working 24-7—or both—we all slow down in July and August and find unfettered hours to take our random ideas for the house and garden and turn them into real plans. I know this from personal experience: my husband and I have been batting around ideas for a kitchen update, but it was only last week, with all of our children at camp or in summer school, that we’ve been able to really focus and sort out the myriad ideas we’ve found in magazines and books.
Thus, there is method to our madness in publishing the Before & After issue during the summer months, along with our biggest kitchen-and-bath feature of the year. Thousands of people in Dallas make key decisions for the home in the summer, which is why we worked doubly hard to present in this issue premier advertisers alongside hundreds of ideas from local designers using local resources to create amazing houses.
Speaking of amazing, Zero 3, the designers of Mi Cocina, Paris Vendome, and Taco Diner, to name a few, has volunteered to give the Notre Dame School a new look. This little Dallas gem, which has been educating children with mental retardation for 40 years, is one of the most outstanding learning centers of its kind, but the common spaces—the hallways, cafeteria, and gym-slash-auditorium—are in desperate need of an update. With the help of D Home and D Magazine, Zero 3’s Jan Martin and Paul Jankowski, along with generous donors and the finest suppliers in Dallas, will be giving Notre Dame a new aesthetic. (Note to donors and finest suppliers: if you see my number on your caller ID, it’s probably a call to ask for help with this project!) We will share their work in an upcoming feature, “It Takes A Village,” to show the genius and heart of the people in our industry, a before-and-after that will truly change lives.
Enjoy this issue, and let me hear from you.
Christine Allison
Editor and Publisher
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