Decorator Showhouse

The basic ingredients are unusual: one colonial style home, 600 volunteers, 16 area interior designers, and months of hard work. Sprinkle in an amazing collection of china plus a display of hundreds of antique mantel and floor clocks. Add a unique Garage Boutique that will offer collectibles and antiques for sale to the public. Mix it all together and what do you have? One ...

Easter, the Perfect Day for Something Heavenly

During this Easter holiday the only ham worth displaying as the centerpiece of your family’s table is Heavenly Ham. At Heavenly Ham, good taste is expressed through quality, freshness, and care. Stan Given (owner) and his staff believe that when taste matters, Heavenly Ham is the perfect choice. When you walk into the Heavenly Ham store located in the Oaks Plaza, between Talbots ...

Letter From The Editor

Welcome to Gainesville Today! This edition of GT has been themed Home Improvement and you will find some very good articles about local renovation specialists, decor suppliers and decorating ideas for your home. There are also several other excellent stories not related to the theme such as On Freedom’s Wing, The Computer Corner, Paint Out! and Decorator Showhouse. I'm sure ...

Lighting Trends

Arhaus, a 19-store retailer of exclusive and unique home furnishings, knows that when it comes to lighting the more detailed and elaborate, the better. Lighting, for the most part, has been accepted as a utilitarian must-have. However, new to the accessory runway are lamps with ornate handcrafted bases made of cast iron, carved wood, hammered copper, brass, and elegant combinations ...

Become a Master of Illusion with Wallpaper

Trompe l’oeil, or “deceive the eye,” is a time-honored decorative effect for adding architectural details, textures and even furnishings or whole scenes where they do not really exist. Today, thanks to sophisticated printing techniques, trompe l’oeil images once achieved only by master painters are available on wallpaper. So realistic looking is the stone wallpaper in the First ...

The Computer Corner

My computer tells me it is out of memory, but I know I have plenty of Hard Drive space, what is up? Memory and Hard Drive storage space are two different things; Memory is bandwidth for things to pass thru. Hard drive space is the area that programs are stored in. Is there a fast way to double and one and a half space my word documents? Yes, a keyboard shortcut ...

On Freedom's Wing

The striking image consists of a snow capped mountain landscape bearing the bold resemblance of the American flag with two bald eagles circling above the mountain. In his 30 years of painting, Kelley says “On Freedom’s Wing” was like no other painting he has completed. “It was as if someone else was holding my paint brush,” he said. “I normally plan and see everything in my head ...

Paint Out!

When a group of artists make art in one location, outdoors, and invite the public to come watch... its a paint out. All the rage in western states, paint outs routinely attract crowds that rival golf and are compared with other spectator sports. “These events are so popular because Americans love landscape art and people are fascinated by watching the painting process,” explains ...

There's New Light for 10E & Sons

n their new showroom and lighting center, 10E & Sons Lighting can provide service that is unequaled in the area. That service includes windows that provide natural lighting in some areas to virtual darkness in one room so customers can get a sense of how to light the outside of their homes. “This is all very innovative,” said Steve Tinney, who with wife, Sharman, sons Trey ...

Transformation Specialist

The home that was once comfortable has now grown too small. The office that worked like a charm when you first moved in no longer functions in a productive fashion for your business. The problem in both cases is that the location is ideal and you don’t want to move. There is a solution in both cases – renovation. And one of the experts in the Gainesville community in fixing ...

Williamsburg at Meadowbrook

In the heart of beautiful rolling countryside, a new development is blooming. Located just seven miles from the action and entertainment of downtown Gainesville and just five miles from the University of Florida, Williamsburg at Meadowbrook is truly a unique development. The beauty of the golf course along with the natural wildlife of cranes, egrets, foxes and hawks all inside ...

A Culinary Poem

A romantic dinner may be just what the doctor ordered For Chef Frank Lima, an instructor with the New York Restaurant School of The Art Institutes, food is poetry and poetry is food. Chef Lima is not only a former White House assistant chef during the Kennedy Administration, but a first runner-up for Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. As Chef Lima explains it, “Poetry ...

Dining in Gainesville

There was a time in the not-too-distant past that dining in Gainesville was not easy. But the time when there was once a small handful of nice downtown restaurants, and little else, is long past. Today, you can find restaurants to suit almost any taste, even the most unique – and probably have more than one from which to choose. The selection of restaurants today includes ...

Education in Gainesville

When people think of education in Gainesville the first thing that pops into their mind is obviously the University of Florida. While there’s no getting around the fact that with UF and Santa Fe Community College Gainesville is a college town, it is also educationally much more. UF enrolls 44,000 students, and has become one of the major research institutions in the southeast ...

Transformation Specialists

The home that was once comfortable has now grown too small. The office that worked like a charm when you first moved in no longer functions in a productive fashion for your business. The problem in both cases is that the location is ideal and you don’t want to move. There is a solution in both cases – renovation. And one of the experts in the Gainesville community ...