Carrie Whitney

Carrie Whitney is an experienced features writer based in Bordeaux, France. With a PhD in history, she has covered topics from the Innocence Project to iambic pentameter but has carved a niche in lifestyle reporting in areas such as architecture, interior design and art history. She has been the newsletter editor for Kitchen & Bath Business for more than a decade. 

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Kitchen & Bath Business •

Bent Into Shape in Texas | Kitchen & Bath Business

For their second project working with a couple on their 1920s house, the team at Austin, Texas-based David Wilkes Builders was asked to replace an enclosed breezeway connecting two structures of the home with a larger addition to allow for a kitchen expansion.  While renovating a historic home is typically anything but straight forward, in this case, the architect also threw the team a literal curveball. 
The main goals of the project were to update the kitchen within the larger space, relocate...
HCD Magazine •

Poinciana Rehabilitation Centre Leverages A Village-like Setting For Behavioral Health Care - HCD Magazine

After 25 years of practicing psychiatry in the Cayman Islands, Dr. Marc Lockhart recognized a critical gap in local mental health care: the lack of an inpatient psychiatric facility. In some cases, patients were kept on a hospital ward, while in acute cases, patients were held in prisons. Those who needed longer-term care were sent to Jamaica. “That was extremely upsetting,” says Lockhart. “We needed our own facility to care for those with mental illness.”
Witnessing psychiatric patients assist...
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Crafting a Quirky Kitchen in Washington, DC | Kitchen & Bath Business

The end unit of a charming set of Federalist row homes in Washington, D.C., caught the eye of a couple purchasing their first house. This 1919 home was classic to the neighborhood and had a lot of potential.
“It had been touched but not gutted, so the original trim, pocket doors and configuration were intact,” said Sarah Snouffer, founder and principal architect of Third Street Architecture, the studio brought in to tackle the renovation. “So we had good bones to start with.”
But accompanying...
Kitchen & Bath Business •

Low-Impact, High-Style Kitchen   | Kitchen & Bath Business

Soon after purchasing a 20-year-old custom colonial home in a Washington, D.C., suburb, a couple turned their attention to a whole-house renovation. They wanted to modernize the traditional interior to one that better suited their taste and lifestyle while accommodating the three generations living together, and the kitchen was an important aspect of the project.  
In their previous home, the family had enjoyed a Snaidero kitchen, and replicating that quality and function was an easy decision. T...
Kitchen & Bath Business •

A Kitchen to Bring the Family Together  | Kitchen & Bath Business

After living in their 1980s traditional home for a decade, a couple decided the main living area could not accommodate their busy lifestyle or their four children. With its choppy layout and modest workspace, the kitchen lacked flow and functionality. The owner of a local café, the wife needed to test new recipes and take photographs, but the dark space did not deliver on inspiration.  
The homeowners enlisted Stil James in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to bring in everything that was missing – an open...
Atlanta Home Improvement •

Dream And Do like a diyer: Kitchen and Bath Updates You Can Make Right Now - Atlanta Home Improvement

Not only will new light fixtures bring new style to a space, the glow they cast also creates fresh ambiance. To update vanity lighting in the bathroom, consider the shape and size of your current baseplate—if you are replacing it with something smaller, you will probably need to paint over the newly exposed area, which could lead to repainting the entire wall or room.
In the kitchen, updating lighting above an island is a project many DIYers can handle. Here too, your current lighting will deter...
HowStuffWorks •

Point d'Alençon Lace Will Always Be the Queen of Lace

In a small town in Normandy, France, admiration for handcrafting has never gone out of style. Known since the 17th century for its fine lacemaking tradition, Alençon, France, is still home to the nationally sponsored Atelier Conservatoire National du Point d'Alençon (National Alençon Lace Workshop). It's where artisans learn to make the delicate point d'Alençon lace, regarded as the "queen of laces" and the historical favorite of queens like Marie Antoinette.
Kitchen & Bath Business •

A Residential Community Serves Adults with Developmental Disabilities | Kitchen & Bath Business

Several years ago, the Stepping Stone Support Center in Littleton, Colo., a nonprofit providing skills training and social events to individuals with developmental disabilities, identified a need for adult housing for the population it serves. In 2016, a group from the nonprofit assembled to create the Trailhead Community to meet that need.
With a mission to offer the opportunity for people to come together in an integrated and supportive residential community yet live independently, Trailhead w...
HowStuffWorks •

Bordeaux's Water Mirror Is Magical, Worth Visiting

Bordeaux, France, has long been known for its wine, but today, the city also draws tens of thousands of visitors annually with an attraction all ages can enjoy. Created in 2006, Bordeaux's Water Mirror – or Miroir d'Eau for the French speaking – is situated across from the Place de la Bourse, an 18th-century square that was commissioned by King Louis XV and faces the Garonne River.








The penultimate king before the French Revolution might be pleased to learn that the Wat...
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Bountiful Bologna | Kitchen & Bath Business

Cersaie 2016, the international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings, recently welcomed a record-breaking 106,599 visitors during five design-filled days in Bologna, Italy. Within six exhibition sectors covering an exhibition floor of 156,000 square meters, Cersaie hosted 852 exhibitors from 43 countries, including 335 non-Italian exhibitor companies. Attendees – for the first time more than 50,000 of them international visitors – included architects, interior designers, tile prof...
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