Jeremy focuses on business processes and installs, while Carrie focuses on marketing and promotion. Jeremy goes out with a measuring tape and makes sure projects are getting started promptly and correctly. Carrie handles business operations and makes sure the showroom is stocked with beautiful product.

This power couple met while still in high school, dated through college and have been married for 25 years. Theyve both worked in a variety of roles in and out of the housing industry, making them well rounded and professionally developed. Jeremy has started his own stucco company and custom kitchen cabinet company and has manufactured doors and hardwood floors. Carrie has worked in the housing industry for 25 years and has been a realtor for the past five, so she has seen and sold a good share of floors.

The businesss new tagline A Passion for Flooring & Professional Installation was chosen with intention.

They take their professionalism seriously at Suncoast.

Jeremy and Carrie understand that people are hesitant to remodel their homes and are sometimes overwhelmed when trying to choose a company or individuals for those projects.

Our number one goal is to create a great client experience by helping them feel comfortable and confident in us through the entire installation process, co-owner Carrie Carver said.

Carrie has realized in real estate people are reluctant to buy homes that need remodel because those projects can be daunting. Suncoast exists to help homeowners confidently simplify that process.

When somebody walks through those doors and spends thousands of dollars on their flooring, the experience needs to be good, Jeremy said. Theyre making a huge investment and they need to feel good about that.

Suncoast prioritizes product quality and customer service. Stop by their flooring showroom to see the quality and experience the service firsthand.

They offer free estimates on their services. Suncoast offers any flooring option you can think of from carpet and porcelain tile to engineered wood and laminate vinyl planking (LVP), also known as laminate vinyl tile (LVT). They also started carrying pool decorative tile to make your backyard oasis pop.

Give your bathroom or kitchen a makeover with an accent tile backsplash and new floors. Suncoast has the solutions.

Professional consultation, coordination, and installation are not something we are willing to rush. The quality of our projects are the priority, Jeremy said. But we make every effort to complete projects quickly and make extraordinary efforts to meet a clients schedule.

With the current supply chain environment, Suncoast focus on products and suppliers many made in the USA with exceptional availability and fast delivery times to ensure timely project start times.

Suncoast Flooring and Design, formerly known as Suncoast Flooring, Kitchen & Bath, started in 2004 and is located at 5668 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Unit 2. They changed their name to reflect their vision of expanding what they offer past simply flooring.

They even do financing through Synchrony Bank.

Customers can apply through us and get approved almost immediately, Design Consultant Debbie Starling said, whos been working in the industry for 10 years.

Jeremy says Suncoast is focused on the elements of a home that are more permanent. Lighting and kitchen hardware are easily replaced, but flooring is long term.

You dont want to put floors down that you want to replace in five years, Jeremy said. You want to put floors down that youre going to be on your deathbed like I still love these floors!Environment shapes us, so the vision at Suncoast really is about creating an environment that people love, where they can thrive.We want to be a part of designing those spaces that people live their lives in, Jeremy said. 0

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The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, this week sold out tours the day it re-opened to the public for the first time in more than two years. Almost 100 visitors wandered through the home of the well-known but lesser understood 19th century poet. While not quite as large a crowd as Opening Day at Fenway Park, the museum said it was significant.

Like other cultural venues, the Dickinson homestead closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic, but Jane Wald, the museums executive director, said the shutdown allowed them to complete the second phase of ongoing building restoration, without disrupting visitors.

In 2019, the museum received a gift of $22 million from William McCall Vickery, a founding board member of the museum. The funds were specifically earmarked for the maintenance and improvement of the museum's buildings, grounds and collections.

In addition to the installation of a new heating and cooling system, textile historians matched carpets and wallpaper patterns, and an original stair banister and door found on the property were re-installed. Several rooms were also restored closer to their original dcor, Wald said.

There are no interior photographs of the homestead as far as we know, none exist from the time, so we had to rely both on forensic evidence and on descriptions that visitors to the homestead sent to other people in correspondence, she said.

The carpet was described by attendees at Dickinson's mother's funeral.

The story passed down by Emily Dickinson's niece is that there were two ladies who arrived at the funeral ahead of time, before the room was too crowded, Wald said, so they could see the magnificent parlor carpet which was described as baskets of flowers in a pattern running to the edges of the room.

The word "home" in Dickinsons poetry is a metaphor for many things, Wald added.

"She once said, I do not cross my father's ground for any house or town, meaning that these three acres on which the homestead and the Evergreens [the home of Dickinsons brother] sit, was kind of to use a Dickinson word her circumscribed world, Wald said.

Dickinson was little known during her life but her 1,800 poems and letters have inspired readers worldwide, a notoriety helped in the last few years by several Hollywood movies and in 2019, a more fantastical interpretation of her life, "Dickinson" on Apple TV+.

Show producer Alena Smith donated several historic items from the set to the museum, and Wald said theyre now part of bringing visitors as close as possible to the place where the poet lived and wrote until her death in 1886.

The television series is what brought Bob and Patty Normand to the homestead. The Normands, who live in Holyoke, and grew up in the area said they always knew about Dickinson but had "kind of forgotten about her," until watching the television series, starring Hailee Steinfeld.

And then, we just couldnt wait for the house to open so we could come again and revisit the whole experience of Emily, Patty Normand said.

In the show, Death is played by the rapper Wiz Khalifa. In a carriage ride with Dickinson, he promises her immortality and foretells the carnage of the Civil War. Spoken by a Black actor, the warning carries a retributive chill, Katy Waldman wrote in the New Yorker.

Episodes connected with Dickinsons writing, and some were explicit in what may or may not have been erotic prose; the show writers took scholarly research about Dickinsons relationship with friend and -sister-in-law Sue to another level.

The show we thought it was just going to be a period piece which would have been fine, said Bob Normand, and it sort of starts out that way, and then all of a sudden, it's like somebody scratching the needle on a record!

Were older, he said, but for younger people who may not know Emily Dickinson, or maybe think she's old-fashioned, the series relates to a younger demographic. It seems like a really great way to bring a whole new generation of people into Dickinsons world.

Many historic museums and symphony orchestras have for years been trying to lure in a younger, more diverse demographic, and whats on the program or being shown is critical to that effort, cultural organization administrators say.

At the Dickinson homestead, museum officials said, special events and the script for the house tour itself have been revamped to reflect a connection with the last two years of enormous social change in the U.S., focusing on race, class issues and labor.

One matter that came up for the Normands on their tour was the lack of emphasis on the anti-slavery movement in Dickinsons letters, given her correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an abolitionist, a published writer and after her death, an editor of Dickinsons poems.

When you talk about a mid 19th century person, what their views on race or social class was, it kind of jars us, you know, now because of Black Lives Matter and [the Me Too] movement, Bob Normand said.

Before retiring, the Normands ran a popular bakery for 30 years in nearby Northampton. Their only disappointment in the tour was that the Dickinson kitchen, featured frequently in the Apple TV+ show, wasnt included.

That space, along with the domestic wing where the Dickinson servants lived, is part of a final restoration phase at the museum. It's expected to take place, likely with the museum open, in the next five years.

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Conceived as a single volumetric form, the 15,000-square-foot Delhi farmhouse is divided into two zones. The ground floor houses the formal living and dining rooms and common areas, while the first is purely private with the family bedrooms and lounge. The luxurious square footage is undoubtedly a draw, but what brings the home to life is Synghs signature knack for blending art and functionality.

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The formal living room on the ground floor of the Delhi home overlooks the lawn and swimming pool. The sofa and table behind it were custom-designed by Sanjyt Singh: Objects + Spaces and executed by Alsorg. The chandelier is from Masiero, table lamp from Contardi, and bespoke rug by Hands Carpet.

A Muse Frida Urn by Jonathan Adler rests on an 88 Secrets Sideboard from Scarlet Splendour. In the backdrop is Flying Senses, an installation in gold and fibreglass by Manish Sharma from Art Centrix Space.

Clad in Bianca Moonface marble and Laminam ceramic tiles, the entrance creates a neutral base for the designers more unconventional experiments indoors. In a first of many dramatic vignettes, the water feature here is accentuated by sculptures by Alex Davis that capture the split second when a drop of water touches the surface. Incidentally, Syngh tells us this highlight was a discovery that he chanced upon at the AD Design Show shortly after he began working on this project!

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Much ink has been spilled over Gov. Ron DeSantis installation of a competent and conscientious State Attorney for Hillsborough County, where I have spent most of my adult life attempting to improve our justice system.

Unfortunately, no publication has explained the constitutional provisions that not only allowed, but required, DeSantis to suspend State Attorney Andrew Warren and replace him with Judge Susan Lopez. This decision was not made lightly, or even suddenly, and the Governor, myself, and our law enforcement partners provided an hour of detailed explanation earlier this month.

Unfortunately, the content of our remarks, as opposed to Warrens complaints, received scant coverage.

Article IV of the State Constitution, Section 1(a), states that the Governor shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed

This provision is not a mere suggestion or best practice; it is an affirmative and binding command in the very first sentence of our foundational document controlling our government, including the office of Governor.

Article IV, Section 7(a), states that the Governor may suspend from office any state officer not subject to impeachment, any county officer, for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and may fill the office by appointment for the period of suspension.

Warren easily met several of these criteria.

Just this summer, Warrens office turned the Fish Hawk Kidnapper loose on bond after failing to move for pretrial detention. This man has been charged with incidents involving actual or potential child victims in Fish Hawk, Lake City and Alabama.

Despite repeated requests from my office and other officials, Warren failed to provide even the courtesy of directly returning a call of another elected official, instead sending staffers to attempt to mollify me in my attempt to advocate for my constituents to be protected from violent crimes against children.

In another recent incident, Warren agreed to no jail time, and dismissal after a short interval of good behavior, for a young man who shot one of my constituents in the back of the head, execution style, to scare him. As shown by centuries of penological studies, if dangerous persons are not deterred, confined, punished and rehabilitated, then they will reoffend.

Contrary to the commentary in your publication, the Governor has not improved his already high political standing or advanced any further ambition by sacking Warren, who as the liberals rightly note in otherwise pervasively erroneous analysis was elected by the popular vote of Hillsborough County, the Soros manipulation and slim margin in a blue wave election notwithstanding.

As for the suggestion that an elected official may, once elected, derelict his duty with impunity, we need not venture far back into history to see seriatim efforts from the left to undermine Donald Trump, a duly elected Republican President. Even more recently, protesters called for the removal of Supreme Court Justices, who are insulated from popular opinion by constitutional design, while decrying the removal of Warren, who is not.

Warren announced his refusal to prosecute serious crimes against small businesses, law-abiding citizens, women, the unborn, and even young children. Warrens six-year record of soft on crime prosecution dedication to lawlessness. Nor is mere talk insufficient to justify the suspension.

Under our constitution, elected officials include legislators, who draft the laws; the Governor, who signs our laws; State Attorneys, who (are supposed to) file charges; and judges, who adjudicate cases. All of them do only three things: they read, write, and speak.

Warren failed to perform those critical tasks consistent with his constitutional oath.

Warren thereby perpetrated constitutional fraud upon the people of Hillsborough County and breached the social compact enshrined in Article IV of our state constitution. By attempting to exercise an extraconstitutional veto over state law, despite being elected by a narrow margin in Hillsborough County only, Warren disenfranchised millions of Floridians and their legislators from across the state, who are also duly elected.

Warren abdicated his role, violated the separation of powers, and left his constituents unprotected from violent crime.

Unfortunately, a popular election is necessary but not sufficient for continuance in office, which requires an official to perform the duties he swore to perform.

If Warren thinks he knows how to make law better than the Legislature and the Governor, he should run for the state House, instead of remaining absent from the courthouse.

I doubt he would fare very well in south Hillsborough County, where he has undermined my efforts to keep the community safe.

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Michael Beltran is the state Representative for House District 57, which covers southeast Hillsborough County.

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Bridges and police department renovations/new equipment on the way

While the 2022-2023 budget proposal was not voted on after its July 25 workshop, that evening did have several projects approved, that will push forward.

1. Bridge and Culvert Structure Repairs

Plant City City Manager Bill McDaniel will finalize engineering work orders for services for bridge and culvert repairs in the amounts of $139,285.60 and $117,163.27 respectively.

The city owns 37 bridge or culvert structures that require periodic inspection and maintenance, repair, or replacement.

After comprehensive inspections and engineering evaluations were conducted in 2020, it was determined that repairs to the following five structures need to, and will be scheduled for completion.

The structures are located at:

East Cherry Street over the drainage canal: spall and crack repair details and direction for object marker placement

East Calhoun Street over the Eastside Canal: spall and crack repair details, embankment restoration details, and bank erosion control installation details

Risk Street over the Westside Canal: spall and crack repair details, embankment restoration details, and bank erosion control installation details

North Crystal Terrace over the drainage canal: spall repair details, embankment restoration details and direction for object marker replacement

Sydney Road over Sparkman Branch

Utilizing the citys ongoing contracts for engineering services, staff has developed work orders with Burgess and Niple, Inc. to provide services to the project.

One work order provides for design, permitting, and construction phase services for minor structural and bank stabilization advancements.

The second work order provides the same services plus additional geotechnical investigations and significant structural design at the Sydney Road location.

The Sydney Road culvert crossing needs significant reconstruction of the upstream headwall system and portions of the downstream headwall, as well as other repairs.

Scope of Services

Task 1: Data Collection and Site Investigation

The consultant will perform data collection, field exploration, and site investigation to collect the information needed to prepare construction repair details and permit documentation, including surveying.

Environmental- The consultant will perform a field investigation at two locations, the bridge at East Calhoun Street over Eastside Canal and Risk Street over Westside Canal, to document existing environmental conditions and perform field flagging of wetland and other surface water limits for subsequent survey location.

Survey- The consultant will perform survey tasks in accordance with all applicable statutes, manuals, guidelines, standards, handbooks, procedures, and current design memoranda.

Survey services will include horizontal and vertical project control, along with established reference points

The consultant will develop a preliminary Engineers Estimate of Probable Construction Cost.

Task 2: Design, Construction Details, Permitting, Utility Coordination Phase

Task 3: Preparation of Bid Specifications

Task 4: Bidding Assistance and Award Review

Task 5: Post Design Services

2. Police Department Flooring Replacement

McDaniel is now authorized to go forward with a job order with Commercial Interiors Inc., for the Police Department Flooring replacement project, for $236,580.83.

The Plant City Police Department building is approximately 55,000 square feet with a combination of different flooring types including carpet, tile, and vinyl composition tile.

Approximately 16,000 square feet has been replaced, and the remaining 39,000 square feet of existing flooring is worn and needs to be replaced.

There is $221,870 available in the CIT Fund for the project. A budget adjustment for $15,000 is included in the agenda.

3. Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program Fiscal Year 2022 Local Solicitation Funds

A resolution now authorizes the proposed use of grant funds through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program Fiscal Year 2022 Local Solicitation.

The federal government allocated $15,525 to the Plant City Police Department under the grant program. The grant is non-matching and formula-base, meaning the funds are already allocated to the city for law enforcement purposes.

The police department vetted the proposed uses and specific conditions to ensure grant requirements are met. The grant also requires a 3% allocation of $508.40 for the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

The police department will now be able to use the funds for a message sign to enhance law enforcement capabilities and services in the community.

SpeedAlert 18 Combined Radar and Message Sign:

ATS five trailer mounted with 90-watt-solar assist

All features activated perpetually (Bluetooth- dating imaging)

Two years of TraffiCloud web services to all six apps (remote management-imaging, data, alerts, mapping and premier care warranty)

Red/blue flashing strobes

The SpeedAlert 18 combines radar feedback with variable messaging for maximum versatility to resolve speed complaints, slow speeding, or sharing timely notifications.

It compiles traffic data, volume, speed, and time, as well as provides feedback by displaying certain messages (Slow Down or Have a Nice Day) or dedicated messages (Flood Warning or Amber Alert).

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With a stellar lineup, DJ set and free shots, Kickback is seriously kicking it back this weekend with a comedy party you won't want to miss.

The event will take place tomorrow August 20 on Saint-Laurent where hosts and Kickback creators, Eva Alexopoulos and Micah will guide you along an experience filled with laughs, high energy and good music. Oh, and of course, free shots!

After starting Kickback over two years ago, Eva and Micah have merged the worlds of comedy and music creating a space where nobody is really a stranger. "I should warn you of our family tradition," Alexopoulos told MTL Blog. "Before every show, Micah, my partner, and I buy everyone a shot which we take together to kick off the show."

"Our signature shot symbolizes having a shared experience with people you would have considered 'strangers' at the beginning of the show. We don't believe in strangers, they're just friends you haven't met yet." Free shot and new friends? A total win-win.

The lineup includes an array of talented comics who have been featured on Netflix, Just For Laughs and Zoofest. You'll be able to get your laugh on all night long with performances by Amer Rez, Tom Murphy, Sarah Warren, Masson Terry, Logan Brown and Abby Stonehouse.

Guest DJ Nicky Raizins will also be performing for some added flair to the night.

Kickback has also partnered with Prohibition, allowing you to get your hands on a few giveaways. The event is BYOB + BYOW (that stands for "bring your own weed," as you can light up in the venue for some added giggles if you roll like that).

Doors for Kickback VOL. 11 open at 8:00 p.m and the show officially kicks off at 9:00 p.m.

Price: Tickets range from $21.59 to $32.09

When: August 20, 2022, at 8:00 p.m. (show starts at 9:00 p.m.)

Address: 3655, boul. Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC

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Its been a long time between drinks: Paspaleys White Luncheon in 2019.Credit:Kara Rosenlund

Winning has also enlisted three of Oatleys former crewmen, who have effectively jumped ship from the Wild Oats family to join their old rivals, including sailing superstar and tactician, Iain Murray.

Winning says: Sailing is a pretty small world. Its not unusual for crews to change, for sailors to go on different boats throughout their career, but theres no bad blood in that, its just the way it is.

Winnings good friend, Nicky Oatley, concurs, saying the family has nothing but love for the big fella, the term of endearment she uses for Murray, an Americas Cup and Sydney to Hobart veteran.

Nicky Oatley says the family has nothing but love for the big fella, Iain Murray.

Meanwhile, the race to the champagne bar on Hamilton Island this year is shaping up to be an interesting one too. A gaggle of Sydneys red carpet regulars is en route including Kate Waterhouse and Luke Ricketson, Deborah Symond and Ned ONeil, Nadia Fairfax and former US InStyle editor Laura Brown, who is spending time in her homeland following her all-star wedding.

No doubt theyll be match-fit for the hectic round of cocktail parties and banquets culminating in the exclusive Paspaley White Luncheon on Friday, when millions of dollars worth of South Sea pearls will be unveiled.

Lachlan Murdochs award-winning Istros, a 1954 classic superyacht heading for Hamilton Island.Credit:Boat International/Guillaume Plisson

PS also hears one eye-catching boat, not competing, is also steaming its way to Hamilton Island, in the form of Lachlan and Sarah Murdochs newly acquired classic cruiser Istros.

No word on who will be on board, though Murdoch jetted back into Sydney on Wednesday, and is a keen yachtie himself.

Feted as the darlings of Sydney hospitality since opening Palm Beachs Boathouse in 2008, only to then weather one of the industrys biggest storms, Andrew and Pip Goldsmith have quietly left the business that has become one of the hottest players in town.

The Boathouses original owners, Andrew and Pip Goldsmith.

Their exit comes three years after the Boathouse Group dining empire collapsed owing 500 creditors a staggering $21.5 million. The group eventually fought its way back and under new ownership continued to expand, opening the historic Manly Pavilion site in a multimillion-dollar deal earlier this year and lodging plans for an ambitious new project in Dural, where landscaper-turned-restaurateur Andrew Goldsmith grew up.

In August 2019, it emerged Sydney property developer brothers Ben and Jono Isaac had become part owners of parent company Palm Group Holdings, in a syndicate with Sydneys Sorensen family, and which previously included Pip Goldsmiths father, former trade minister Andrew Robb and his wife Maureen, though they appear to have left the business last year according to ASIC records.

The syndicate stepped in to save the chain of popular seaside eateries after mounting debts and a wind-up action by the Australian Tax Office forced original owners Andrew and Pip Goldsmith to look for outside investors.

Ben and Jono Isaac in 2019 when they stepped in to save the Boathouse group of restaurants. Credit:Nick Moir

Andrew Goldsmith declared himself bankrupt in May 2020 but remained in a senior management position with the group, telling PS a year ago: It has been a challenging two years for the hospitality industry. However, in the same breath, we are excited to have something positive for our team to work on.

In a joint statement to their customers, the Goldsmiths said: Our words and appreciation for our guests, supporters, friends and families, will never be enough. And to all of the team members we have worked alongside you were our inspiration and we are lucky to have shared the journey with so many of you.

Clearly, cactus was never going to cut it when it came to creating a floral tribute inspired by the one and only Kylie Minogue, one of 15 installations paying homage to trailblazing women unveiled yesterday at the Royal Botanic Gardens Calyx greenhouse.

The floral tribute to Kylie Minogue at The Calyx in the Royal Botanic Gardens.Credit:Wolter Peeters

The tributes are part of the international Fleurs de Villes installation, which has been held around the world since 2015, and is now making its debut in Sydney.

The Jenny Kee tribute installation at The Calyx in the Royal Botanic Gardens.Credit:Wolter Peeters

For Kylie, the team at Don de LAmour Bespoke Blooms fashioned the tribute out of delicate vanda orchids, tiki fern, Singapore orchids and pieris.

Other tributes in the show, which runs until August 28, include Carla Zampatti (Lisianthus, staticespray, chrysanthemums and sago), Jenny Kee (Geraldton waxflowers, banksias, Cymbidium orchids and wattle), Olivia Newton-John (blanca roses, statice, double tulips and carnations), Nicole Kidman (Banksia coccinea, magnolia and Cymbidium orchids), Ash Barty (Geraldton waxflower, kangaroo paw, daisies and octagon flowers) and Nancy Bird Walton (Everlasting daisies, cordyline, Spanish moss and delphiniums).

Finishing touches being applied to the Nancy Bird Walton floral tribute on show at The Calyx in the Royal Botanic Gardens.Credit:Wolter Peeters

The recently installed US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has fast become Sydneys most coveted dinner party guest.

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy greets the press at Sydney International Airport in July before taking up her post.Credit:Brook Mitchell

On Monday, Kennedy met University of NSW leaders, researchers and students at the Randwick campus and attended the graduation ceremony of her friend and alumna Dr Melissa Chiu.

Art collector Danny Goldberg. Credit:NIC WALKER

Chiu is director of the Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which includes international modern and contemporary art, based in Washington DC.

Her friends, leading Sydney art collector and executive chairman of private equity firm Dakota Capital, Danny Goldberg and wife Lisa, hosted an intimate dinner at their Vaucluse home afterwards, at which Kennedy was among the guests.

PS hears guests were particularly enamoured with Kennedy confirming that she was the inspiration for Neil Diamonds Sweet Caroline, which the showman wrote after seeing a photograph of her when she was a nine-year-old girl.

Endless charity committees, gala dinners, red carpets, boutique openings, a month on the Amalfi ... life in Sydneys pointy end sounds exhausting. So, who could blame the Real Housewives of Vaucluse for wanting to let off a bit of steam?

The real housewives of Vaucluse from left: Marly Boyd, Alina Barlow, Sarah Carroll, Terry Biviano, Maree Andrews, Sophie CurtisCredit:Instagram

Thats precisely what they did when party planner Maree Andrews threw her fancy dress Dark, Dangerous and Decadent themed 40th last weekend in the carport at Darling Points Swifts mansion, which she had ambitiously renamed Chateau M for the dimly lit, Eyes Wide Shut soire.

The gals clearly pulled out all the stops as a fleet of limos disgorged the society types wearing lacy lingerie, diamonds, heels and not much else on a particularly chilly night. Bizarrely, their husbands turned up in blazers and chinos.

Andrews herself appeared to be channelling both Cher and Celine Dion in her homage to the Rankin Sisters, while veteran social fixture Barbara Coombs had clearly been busy plucking chooks for her giant feathered wings she flapped about in.

No wonder the neighbours were hot on the phone to PS wondering what the likes of Russian heiress and Sydney FC owner Alina Barlow, in a racy onesie, retired WAG Terry Biviano, in her Cirque du Soleil cast-off, Sophie Curtis, wearing a glorified lace hanky, and PS regular, Double Bay eyebrow technician Kristin Rio Fisher, stuffed into a rubber dress, were getting up to inside. Bow chikka wow wow.

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Installation image of Joyce Campbell's The Sunken City at Bartley & Company Art.

Photography today is, like clouds of digital vapour, literally everywhere. Yet predictions that such ubiquity might lead to a mass watering down of the photograph and photographers value have, you could say, evaporated.

This weekend - just as photo-sharing app BeReal spreads virally to phones, setting a new radical visual culture low bar - Wellington events demonstrate that photography, in a myriad of physical formats, has never been better cared for as a fine art.

At Te Papa all of daylight Saturday and at a clutch of surrounding galleries Sunday, the festival Photobook/NZ is providing one of the best visual art public programmes of the year. Associated are an interesting suite of photography exhibitions across galleries. Included are Russ Flatts bold response to Christian homophobia, Hell Bent at The Engine Room at Massey University, new Mori photobooks by fine art students and grads, M Wai R at Photospace and Peter Hannken in the Bowen Galleries window.

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Work (L-to-R) by Gavin Hipkins, Peter Peryer and Edith Amituanai in It's Personal at Webb's.

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A contemporary counter to snap-happy ubiquity is the work of the late Peter Peryer. With such keen care and formal focus he found both gorgeousness and surreal humour in mundanity. Taking up digital colour photography in his 60s, Peryer proved with a camera phone that a critical passionate eye for the way objects vibrate in space was still something worth selling, beyond Instagram.

A small survey exhibition of colour photographs from his last 12 years, 2006-2018 at Hamish McKay Gallery in Jessie St puts it beyond doubt. These are prints made in editions ranging between 10 and 25 by the photographer before he died. There will be no more. There are familiar stone warm classics - the rose, the meat carcass, the dropped melted ice cream cone - mixed in with what to me are the lesser known. A remarkable, gently animated camellia from Peryers last year, has all the structural intrigue of the Fibonnaci golden spiral.

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Peter Peryer's Ice Cream 2007 at Hamish McKay Gallery.

Together they demonstrate Peryers mix with the eye of exactness and adventure, with a love of pattern in finding new geometric lines on the disappearing picture plane, and a late blooming appreciation for the complexity of colour. Peryer is not afraid to push for refinement with even the most banal of objects. While his flowers reveal new worlds, his orange pumpkin - surely destined for a hipster eatery close by - is a step too far for even me.

With pathos Peryer draws us into scenes which often speak to me obliquely to our sometimes unsettled cultural relationship with the world. Take Newell Oamaru. I teeter woozily on a landing at the top of a steep old domestic staircase before a wooden picket gate. Im taken off my feet by a churning spatial arrangement of clashing floral carpet and wallpaper-clad walls and ceiling - tripping on the precipice before I risk descend into some mixed-up colonial hell.

Like a partner suite, a set of Peryers earlier black and white hits (the dead cow! The sand shark!) are at Webbs auction house galleries on Marion St as part of Its Personal, a generous selection of work from photography collectors, former ad man Howard Grieve and photographer Gabrielle McKone (a Photobook/NZ organiser). In surveying the range of contemporary photography its a show the envy of any public gallery. Indeed, no work is for sale, and its curated by ex City Gallery senior curator Robert Leonard.

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A wall of Yvonne Todd's work in It's Personal at Webb's.

Its Personal is testament to the special long-game role the major private collector has had for photography over the decades. In that way theres public good also mixed into their collecting habits. The show is marked by its diversity of approaches and formats, and a mix of surprises (the quiet poetic 80s polaroids of Janet Bayly) and more familiar works.

McKone and Grieve have also clearly had an eye for keeping up with some artists practice. A big wall of Yvonne Todds provides a strong Gothic-suburban mini survey. Often Todds portraits have a pregnant power (in one self-portrait, literally) in making you question darkly what behind the studied pose a person has done, or theyre likely to do when they walk away in the future.

Joyce Campbell provides remarkable meditations on our relationship to the mysterious unseen in the environment through the radical employment of historical photographic technology at Webbs, in photobooks at the festival and in a stunning new installation at Bartley and Company The Sunken City. Its an exhibition notable for how the internal underwater architectural abstraction of her big photographs (akin to big modernist painting) are in quiet dialogue with a more didactic but very eloquent words in a handmade book on display, and wonderful prints if Piranesi from the 18th century of futuristic prisons, of moving cogs, chains and staircases from the artists own collection.

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Work by Joyce Campbell in It's Personal at Webb's.

In this majestic but oblique conversation between mental interiors, Im drawn into considering the prisons our economic systems place on our expectations of being able to enact positive change. And the way Campbells moving shards suggest we have the mechanisms within us to make those shifts. As Campbell writes, with the global economy in a medically induced coma, we contemplated restarting the machine piecing it all back together.

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Q: Every time it rains, our sliding glass door leaks. Water seeps in at the corners of the threshold, soaking the carpet and rotting the subfloor. We've caulked the threshold repeatedly, but nothing seems to work. Is there anything we can do, such as metal flashing, to solve this problem?

A: Leakage is a common problem with sliding door thresholds. Damages can range from stained carpets to rotted subfloor, baseboards and wall framing. Caulking is the common first approach but is often an insufficient solution. Your idea to add flashing is a good one, but even this is not always successful.

There is, however, a fail-safe method of correction, but it can be labor intensive, which means costly, and is only recommended where all other methods have failed.

This repair involves installation of a sheet metal drain pan beneath the door threshold. The pan must be specially ordered from a sheet metal shop to precisely fit the doorway for which it is intended. Three sides of the pan should have a raised edge, about three-quarters of an inch high, with thoroughly sealed corners. The open side of the pan should face toward the exterior, with a downward sloping flange to promote drainage.

To install the pan, the entire door assembly must be removed. The pan is then set in place with generous applications of high quality exterior sealant. The door assembly is then reinstalled, with the threshold inserted into the pan, again with generous applications of sealant. When done properly, this method has been a foolproof way to prevent water intrusion. If all sliding doors were initially installed in this manner, leakage could be prevented at minimal cost. An ounce of prevention during construction equals gallons of cure for years to come.

Q: My neighbors have a very old home, built before the age of building codes, when there were no proper line setback requirements. Recently, they installed a new laundry, and the dryer exhaust now blows against the side of my house. The noise, lint and steam create a nuisance whenever they dry their clothes. I suspect this laundry was added without a permit and am wondering if I should complain to them or to the building department. What do you suggest?

A: All plumbing and electrical alterations require a building permit. If the laundry was installed without a permit, then the installation is not legal. It may also be illegal to vent a clothes dryer onto a neighbor's property. You can discuss this with your neighbors to see if they are willing to make some reasonable adjustments, such as diverting the dryer vent to another location, possibly above the roof. If their response is less than neighborly, you can file a complaint with the local building department. However, the cost of that action is likely to be permanently frigid relations with your neighbors. You'll need to weigh that discomfort against the perceived advantages of upgrading their laundry.

To write to Barry Stone, visit him on the web at http://www.housedetective.com, or write AMG, 1776 Jami Lee Court, Suite 218, San Luis Obispo, CA 94301.

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What makes a great museum?Its about more than just the art inside its wallsits also those walls themselves, which are meant to work in service of whats on view. As many architects have realized over the years, museum buildings can, if anything, function like artworks themselves, as objects for appreciation. In some cases, these buildings have become justas identifiable as the masterpieces in museums collections.

This list collects some of the most important museum buildings of the past 100 years. It includes influential modernist experiments and polarizing postmodern expansions, architectural oddities and beloved additions, circular museums and glassed-in pyramids. These structures proposed strange, new possibilities for how a museum ought to lookand, in some cases, changed the cultural landscape altogether. In the past few decades alone, spurred by Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, theres been a museum boom that caused architects to push their practices in new directions, and while the momentum of that boom has died down, its energy lives on.

From a space resembling a hovering spaceship to an institution shaped like an unrolled carpet, these are the 25 best museums since 1922.

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