Tag: Renovates

Celeb Stylist Kate Young Renovates Her Upstate New York Home

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I get very mood-board-y,” muses fashion stylist Kate Young, reflecting on her approach to designing her own homes. The same, she explains, is true when it comes to devising red-carpet ensembles for the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, and Dakota Johnson.  

“I like to study, pick pieces, and mix it all together.” So one might say that her own personal Oscars has been the circa 1945 Bauhaus-style house in Woodstock, New York, that she shares with her husband, record executive Keith  Abrahamsson, and their two sons, Stellan and Leif. Armed with modernist William Muschenheim’s original plans (sleuthed from Columbia

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Couple Buys Abandoned House in Japan for $30K and Renovates It: Photos

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Jaya Thursfield and his wife, Chihiro, bought an abandoned traditional Japanese farmhouse in 2019 and have spent the past two years turning it into their dream family home.

a family sits in front of a renovated traditional japanese farmhouse on a sunny day

Jaya Thursfield, his wife, Chihiro, their sons, Anton and Marco, and one of their cats, Kotora, in front of the house this week.


Jaya Thursfield



The couple, both of whom work in IT, moved to Japan from London in 2017 and started looking for a house.

One of Thursfield’s priorities was finding a house on a relatively large plot of land so they could have barbecues and a vegetable garden and so

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