Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor The Outlet Nobody Thinks About Until the Lights Go Dark I was walking through an Oro Valley neighborhood near the Catalina foothills last week, the hour when the evening light turns the mountains gold and porch lamps begin clicking on one by one. Outside one home, a single
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor. The Two Weeks When a Marana Home Quietly Turns From Fall to Festive I drove out to Marana last week, past saguaros still holding their late-summer green, past yards that still look like September. But in a few of the master-planned communities near the Tortolitas, I noticed
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor The Homes That Look Effortless in December Started Their Checklist in September I ran into a Phoenix homeowner outside her house last week, and she had a date circled on her kitchen calendar: one hundred days until Christmas. I asked her why that particular number mattered so
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor The Storefronts That Stop Shoppers Mid-Stride I walked through Old Town Scottsdale last week at the hour when the desert heat finally lifts and the sidewalks fill with shoppers, and I noticed something small but telling. One storefront was pulling every lingering glance while the shop two
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor. The Homes That Look Effortless in December Were Scheduled in September I drove through Paradise Valley last week at the hour when the evening light turns gold against Camelback and Mummy Mountain, and I noticed something small but telling. A few homes already had their installation dates
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor The House That Changed the Street I have walked enough Oro Valley streets at dusk to know when something has shifted. It is not always obvious at first. Sometimes it is one home, a warm trace of light following the line of a stucco roofline, that makes
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor The Question That Finally Gets the Answer She Has Been Holding for Years A Marana homeowner I spoke with recently put it simply. She had decorated her home for Christmas every year for sixteen years. She had done it well, by anyone’s standard. But every December, when
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor What a Phoenix Home Looks Like Before the Vision Arrives, and After There is a particular moment in every Phoenix consultation that I am never tired of. The homeowner walks me through her home, pointing to the roofline she has always wanted to do something beautiful with,
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By Holly Margaux for Margie Mae’s Holiday Decor The Home That Is Ready for Everyone Who Walks Through the Door There is a particular kind of Scottsdale home I recognize the moment I step inside. Elegant year round. Every surface is considered. The kind of home that took years to get exactly right and that
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