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QUARTET TO PERFORM Members of a Joyful Noise, from left, Brenda Cottrell, Lesa Costlow, Earl Tuttle and Chelsa Clegg will be among those performing at a singspiration set for Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Toronto High School parking lot.-- Contributed

Joyful Noise Singspiration

Sunday afternoon in Toronto

TORONTO The Toronto High School parking lot will be the site of a A Joyful Noise Quartet Singspiration.

It will be held Sunday beginning at 4 p.m. and feature A Joyful Noise, comprised of Brenda Cottrell, Lesa Costlow, Chelsea Clegg and Earl Tuttle; the Blest Trio with Laurie Brookes as accompanist; Tom Graham, Jefferson County commissioner; Doc Roe; and Ron Retzer.

Attendees can tune in their radio to 99.3 FM and are asked to remain in their vehicles. Those who exit must wear a mask, according to information provided. There will be no public restroom facilities available.

Community blood drive still

accepting donors for Sunday

WEIRTON Cove Presbyterian Church in Weirton is hosting a community blood drive as an outreach program to help support area hospitals and patients.

It will be held in the fellowship hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the church, which is located at 3404 Main St.

Participants must pre-register in order to donate. To do so, visit Vitalant.org and click on the make appointment button and search with group code G0010028 Another option is to download the Vitalant-Pittsburgh mobile app to a smartphone or call or call (412) 209-7000 or Rachel Bennett at (412) 736-5506.

No walk-ins will be accepted.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many blood drives have been canceled, resulting in decreased blood donations and supply, according to a news release. One unit of blood can save three lives. Blood is separated into red cells, plasma and platelets.

Weirton Medical Center blood services are provided by Vitalant, formerly the Central Blood Bank of Pittsburgh.

Donations will directly help our community of Weirton as well as other local communities, the news release adds. Social distancing will be practiced during this event.

To save time, donors can complete their health history questionnaire online on the same day as their donation. Go to Vitalant.org, select donate and then health history questionnaire.

Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood, according to a fact sheet provided. One in seven people entering a hospital will need blood.

Church parking lot service

Sunday at First Westminster

STEUBENVILLE First Westminster Presbyterian Church, 235 N. Fourth St., will be holding a Memorial Day Tailgate Service in the church parking lot on Sunday, beginning at 10:45 a.m., the regular church worship time.

Those planning to attend are asked to bring a lawn chair and join us. We will be following social distancing protocols and the masks are encouraged. Families/households may sit together but there will be 6 feet between the next family, according to a church spokesperson. Spaces will be marked in the parking lot. We will honor our veterans and our graduates.

The service will be on Facebook Live on Sunday at 10:45 a.m. and archived at firstwestminster.org.

Food distribution, thrift store

reopenings are announced

The Brooke-Hancock County Salvation Army, in conjunction with the Mountaineer Food Bank, will host a food distribution and has reopened its thrift stores in Weirton and Wellsburg.

A Just in Time food distribution will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Wellsburg service center at 401 Commerce St.

A state identification card is needed to show proof of residency.

The Weirton thrift store on Penco Road is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and the thrift store at the Wellsburg service center is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

In keeping with state restrictions spurred by the pandemic, customers will be limited to nine at a time. Because the stores have been closed since the stay-at-home order, no donations are being accepted at this time.

Faith in the Future scheduled

June 3 at Seventh Street Plaza

STEUBENVILLE Faith in the Future Ohio Valley has announced its next opportunity to meet, network and pray for our economic development has been scheduled for June 3 from noon to 1 p.m.

It will be held at Urban Missions Seventh Street Plaza, located at Seventh and Washington streets, Steubenville.

The Rev. Ashley Steele, Urban Missions executive director, will host the luncheon and lead us as well as share with us the exciting developments happening with the Urban Mission and happenings in the Ohio Valley.

Lunch will be catered, and there will be tents set up and outdoor seating necessary to comply with social distancing rules.

Its Facebook information noted Faith in the Future Ohio Valley is the faith community of Jefferson County, concerned for the spiritual and the temporal needs of our community, strives to create a climate for the economic development of our area through prayer, leadership, encouragement and teamwork.

For reservations, text to (919) 349-2038 or e-mail tmcmanamon@onesourcebenefits.com.

Mystery bag auctions winding

down for Salvation Army

STEUBENVILLE During May, the Salvation Army of Steubenville is hosting a mystery bag auction on its Facebook page every Monday and Friday.

The final two are approaching.

The auctions begin at 9 a.m. and end at 7 p.m. The mystery bags are filled with goodies for adults, children and your entire household, notes the post on the Salvation Armys Facebook page. All proceeds go toward food for those who need help during the pandemic.

Here is how to play: The first person to comment will put a $1 sign in their comment. Every person who comments after that will increase their donation by $1. The last person to comment before the auction closes at 7 p.m. will win and be contacted.

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Andrew Ivany says the relationship between the province he calls home and the province he's travelled to for work remains strong.

"Like they say, Fort Mac is the second biggest city in Newfoundland," he said, referring to Fort McMurray.

"Alberta and Newfoundland go hand in hand."

Ivany recently drove thousands of kilometres back home. Thetrip was bookended by quarantines at his job site in Sylvan Lake, near Red Deer, before he left, and at a relative's cabin on the Avalon Peninsula when he arrived in Newfoundland.

"Alberta has provided a lot of opportunity for Newfoundlanders," Ivanytold CBC News.

"I mean, it's a place for guys [who] don't grow up with much, and we go out and we work hard. Alberta is just like a second home.That's how I consider it,anyways."

Ivany is one of thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who've made the trek out west to seek out that opportunity.

And with the pandemic and oil crash sapping the economic lifeblood of Alberta, the ripple effects are being felt at home, too.

The problems come on top of already severe problems in Newfoundland and Labrador's own oil industry. Drilling has been halted at the Hibernia platform, the Terra Nova field has already been dormant for months, and an ambitious deepsea project has been put on the backburner.

A recent report predicted that Alberta's economy would shrink by an unprecedented 5.8 per cent in 2020, and unemployment could average more than 11 per cent.

All that bad news out west could have a big impact in the east.

While some people pull up stakes and move, many don't. For them, it's a commuter existence fly-in, fly-out earning Alberta dollars that help some Newfoundland outports stay afloat.

"It's very clear that COVID-19 is posing major problems for these workers and their families, in the sense that it's very difficult now to be mobile, to live in this province and work in other provinces," said Barbara Neis, a distinguished research professor of sociology at Memorial University.

Neis runs a project called On The Move, a national partnership that studies the mobile labour force.

That labour force has had a big impact on the economy in Newfoundland and Labrador.

"It's like an iceberg. We've had this particularly in some regions this large population, we're talking about thousands of workers, who have relied on being mobile in and out of the province and helped to sustain rural communities," Neis said.

Like an iceberg, much of the current data that would reveal the scope of the issue remains below the surface.

There is a years-long lag in Statistics Canada figures on how much workers who live in one province make elsewhere.

But historic numbers show that the contribution is significant.

In 2014, workers living in Newfoundland and Labrador made nearly $1.1 billion in earnings in other provinces. More than $700 million of that total was earned in Alberta.

Resident employees people who lived and worked in Newfoundland and Labrador made just over $11 billion.

So for every $10 made inside the province that year, about $1 was earned outside the province the vast majority of that, in Alberta.

That year, more than 19,000 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador earned income outside the province. More than half of them almost 11,000 did so in Alberta.

The number dropped in subsequent years, amid an economic downturn.

In 2016 the most recent year for which statistics are available the number of workers travelling from the province to the rest of Canada dropped to just over 14,000. They pulled in less than $700 million roughly half of that in Alberta.

At peak, in the economic boom time of 2008, 14,000 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador commuted to work in Alberta alone.

The oilsands have been a key destination for that mobile labour force.

In the boom times around 2008, the majority of rotational workers in the oilsands were from Atlantic Canada.

Fast forward a decade, to late 2017, and one in nine of those travelling workers called Newfoundland and Labrador home, according to an industry survey.

Today, the Alberta oilpatch is facing a double-edged sword dealing with the fallout of cratering crude prices on one side, and addressing health concerns caused by COVID-19 on the other.

"It has been, I'd say, a pretty unprecedented time," said Shafak Sajid, a policy analyst with the Oil Sands Community Alliance, an umbrella group representing the major industry players.

On the economic side, there have been billions slashed from planned capital investments, big voluntary production cuts, and project slowdowns.

"A number of companies have postponed scheduled turnaround or maintenance, just to reduce and minimize the activity on site while the pandemic guidance is in place," Sajid said.

On the health side, concerns have been expressed about the use of fly-in workers, and the possibility they could unwittingly spread the coronavirus.

An outbreak at the Kearl site near Fort McMurray has been linked to more than 100 COVID-19 infections across five provinces including one in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sajid said companies have been working to adjust their operations to conform with public-health guidance everything from altering shift rotations and work schedules, to changing how workers are fed (pre-packaged meals instead of buffets), to enhanced screening and physical distancing measures.

"I would say that camps continue to be a vital component of sustaining the oilsands operation. I don't see those going anywhere," Sajid said.

"And as far as fly-in, fly-out workers are concerned, that is a strategy that we need to effectively staff our operations. I don't see that shifting in a major way."

University of Alberta professor Sara Dorow says the western province is currently facing the "double whammy" of a health crisis and an oil crisis.

She saidthey are both separate and related issues, and have both separate and compounding effects on mobile workers.

"The pandemic has exacerbated what was already an oil downturn, and we're now in crisis mode in the oil economy which has been sort of happening over years, but has really come to a head with the decreased demand for oil," Dorow told CBC News in an interview.

Dorow is chair of sociology at the University of Alberta, and has been researching the political economy of the oilsands for over a decade.

She saidthe workforce has been reduced at some sites by up to 60 per cent, and there are questions about what happens next.

"We don't know if industry will return to the usual shutdown approach, where thousands of workers fly in for these two-month periods," Dorow said.

"So that means a lot of people who are relying on that are [on] pins and needles about future prospects for work."

Dorow saidthe current added stress and difficulty for fly-in, fly-out workers has been compounded by the financial and economic uncertainty they are facing.

"I think that we're in a very important turning point what I hope is a turning point which is that the confluence of the pandemic and the oil crisis should be a wake-up call," she said.

"That relying on one economy that is a fickle boom-and-bust economy is a real problem, and that we need to diversify. Not just here, but in the places from which [fly-in, fly-out]workers come."

This coverage is part of Changing Course, a series of stories from CBC Newfoundland and Labrador that's taking a closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting local industries and businesses, and how they're adapting during these uncertain times to stay afloat.

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To a window washer, social distancing is part of the job. Hanging off the side of a building, glass separating

To a window washer, social distancing is part of the job.

Hanging off the side of a building, glass separating the technician and the inside offices its a job that adapts well to the era of Covid-19. So long as clients are still paying for the service, that is.

Thats the challenge facing KEVCO Building Services. Kenny Cohn, president of the family-owned Gaithersburg company, says the next few months for his business hinge on whether the residential and commercial customers prioritize window cleaning, garage cleaning and power washing services. So far, business has remained relatively stable given the environment. Bookings are down around 15% some postponed, some canceled completely.

But Kenny built the company with conservative growth, with little debt weighing on his mind as revenue slows.

Its serving us well now, he says. This is a time that will definitely bring us closer together.

Kenny launched KEVCO in 1988 after years washing windows in college.

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Teenagers across the country will havethe opportunity next week to network with some of the nations most experienced entrepreneurs.

Why Entrepreneurship Now A Virtual Event for Americas Teens will run from 3 to 4 p.m. May 27 on the Microsoft Teams Live platform,.

Expect Ayden Lally, 16, of Cary to log on. He has been balancing homework with his business ideas for years.

At 9 or 10, I started washing cars and powerwashing driveways, he said. He then advanced his cash flow by reselling products on Amazon.

I sold computers and Kindles. Probably, in that first time, in under a month, I did over $3,000 in sales when I was 10 or 11, he said.

In his teens, Ayden added Christmas light installation to his portfolio of services.

I had to hire crews, train the crews after that. The most important thing and the main learning experience was probably generating leads through different social media platforms, he said.

Ayden says he did $50,000 in sales in under two months and was inspired to learn more about media marketing and business consulting.

Brian Hamilton, founder of the Brian Hamilton Foundation, has a similar story.

Entrepreneurship changed my whole world, he says. I want to teach people how to do it because its not that hard.

Hamilton is passionate about inspiring teens to become job creators.

Over the last 50 to 60 years, weve gone from about 25% of people who have owned their own businesses to today 9%, he said.

In effort to reverse that trend, Hamilton among the organizers of the upcoming virtual webinar event for teens.

His advice to teens: Start small and learn. Thats how this whole economic system runs. You look at the free enterprise system, capitalism. Its all based upon that person that goes out and tries.

The teen virtual summit is a partnership between Junior Achievement USA, the Brian Hamilton Foundation and the Mark Cuban Foundation.

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Lockdown also caused an upending of traditional social hierarchies. Celebrities have never appeared more vacuous or irrelevant. Kate Winslet undoubtedly meant well but attracted widespread derision when she gave advice after pointing out she played an epidemiologist in the film Contagion. It was real scientists, including that gentle, lofty brainbox, chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty, who were our stars now as well as the remarkable, chart-topping figure of Colonel Tom Moore. A youth-obsessed society rediscovered old people; not just as sad casualties of corona but as individuals of spirit and resourcefulness who could bring almost a century of perspective to our present problems.

In the years before corona, PPE meant philosophy, politics and economics, the subject that the elite read at Oxford before going on to run the country. Now, PPE means something entirely different. Its the safety attire of the people we soon came to see as the most important members of our society. It wasnt the political or professional elite who were on the frontline doing 13-hour shifts in masks that cut savagely into their faces. It was nurses, care assistants and paramedics who are poorly rewarded for work of inestimable value. Cicero, one of the Prime Ministers favourite philosophers, observed: In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. Never have we felt the truth of that so profoundly as during the Covid pandemic when exhausted medics joined the immortals and, every Thursday night, all the streets in all the land were filled with a great thunder of clapping for our shattered heroes.

When this is over will we return to worshipping at the tawdry altar of Fame or will the appreciation of human beings of genuine merit survive reentry to Planet Normal? It feels, at least for now, as if the specific gravity of the carers and the healers will continue to carry great weight. Public gratitude will reshape politics for a generation. Boris Johnson himself survived an attack by the invisible mugger, and paid tribute to the two nurses, Jenny McGee and Luis Pitarma, who monitored his vital signs for three anxious days and nights. Bursaries for nurses training were scrapped by Theresa Mays government, an act of wanton vandalism. Looking forward, you can be sure that a Johnson administration will reward the NHS that saved his life (while reforming its hopeless procurement arm) and deliver the 50,000 extra nurses we so desperately need. Yes, Covid-19 put the NHS under horrendous pressure, but the virulent new disease also forced medics to adapt and learn at great speed. Best practice is rolled out in a matter of days when normally it would take months or years, one consultant marvelled. Amazing what can be achieved when theres no time for paperwork, protocols or layers of useless management.

It wasnt just doctors who were learning on the job. Companies that stayed open had to rapidly develop new ways of operating. Staff meetings were held on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. For years, people like me who campaigned for better work-life balance were told that the old command-and-control model of major corporations would never accept mums and dads working from home in any numbers. The culture of presenteeism was stubbornly immovable. Well, Covid-19 smashed through the roadblock. During lockdown, WFH (working from home) instantly became the norm, with husbands and wives divvying up the chores. Gender equality acquired rocket boosters. No longer would men be able to claim that the world would end if they had to do their share of their childcare. Acknowledging the huge cultural shift, Jes Staley, the chief executive of Barclays, said that having thousandsof workers in one building may be a thing of the past. Instead of 7,000 employees travelling to the banks Canary Wharf headquarters, just a handful went to the office while the rest worked from home. Another CEO told me that her staff, who hadnt had to pay for travel or lunch for weeks, feel like theyve had a pay rise and dont want to go back to how things were. An exodus of jobs and people from London looks likely in the next year.

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When downtown L.A. restaurant Red Herring updated and upscaled its former Eagle Rock iteration, the project also became a bold debut for interior designer Marissa Zajack, who used her background in film and television to tell a vibrant and transportive visual story.

The relocated Red Herring opened in December 2019, the love child of husband-and-wife team Dave Woodall, the chef, and Alexis Martin Woodall, president of Ryan Murphy Productions. Zajacks credits include graphic design for shows and movies such as Zombieland, New Girl, Bombshell and the upcoming The Boys in the Band on Netflix.

Martin Woodall met her when they worked on Murphys 2006 movie Running With Scissors, and since then has tapped Zajack for design advice and small jobs at the old restaurant, which closed early last year. The scope and undertaking of Red Herring 2.0 was new territory for them both.

I didnt exactly know what I was getting myself into, but was so honored that Alexis asked me, Zajack said. Years working in the art department on TV and film is similar in some ways to the interior design process, but there were definitely things that didnt carry over, which were new and exciting for me, like understanding building codes and the durability of materials.

Her background in graphic design, however, proved a huge asset for detailed aesthetic continuity she digitally designed the interiors, furniture, fixtures and marketing, and even handled the branding, down to business cards and way-finding signs.

Zajack commissioned artist Mike Willcox for the restaurants show-stopping mural, a colorful art deco-inspired jungle scene spanning the entire back wall of the dining room. She printed his artwork on wallpaper, then aged it to make it feel vintage less computer-generated and more painterly and unearthed with history.

Thematically, Zajack said the whole decor was about celebrating the spirit of California, past and present a place that was fun and sexy, timeless yet modern, where you could go day to night.

She even imagined a fun back story: Some fabulous woman owned it that had wonderful dinner parties for all of her fabulous friends; a Dorothy Parker type. Decadent, elegant and whimsical, but nothing too serious. It had to be joyful.

How did you get your start in design?

I grew up in Southern California; my dad was an advertising photographer and my mom worked in his studio. I went to college for fine art at ArtCenter in Pasadena, and then got interested in fashion and worked for Libby Lane in Beverly Hills. Then I segued to working in the art department for film and television for about 15 years. I was really interested in graphic design in film because you could really tell a story through the graphic elements, especially if youre working on a show or film thats based in a different time period.

What are some of your aesthetic trademarks?

The graphic element, like custom wallpaper and adding graphic geometry into a space. For furniture, I really like soft curves and use a lot of blush and brass elements. Ive called upon some of the artists I worked with on the restaurant in other projects, like the lighting designer Dora Koukidou, who is out of Greece. I loved her light fixtures and I wanted a custom piece for the bar area at the restaurant, for a bold statement.

The color scheme is amazing.

I love the way Mike Willcoxs work and the rest of the colors go together. Theres a delineation from the bar area to the dining area, which is a lot more jewel-toned because theres a lot going on with the mural. But in the bar area there are more pastels and washed corals. They feel cohesive but also two very different spaces at the same time.

What projects are you working on right now?

Im working on my own home at the moment, which is really exciting. Its in a historic building in Koreatown on Wilshire called the Talmadge. Red Herring was a full build-out, but this is working on a historic interior and beautifying something that is already beautiful. One of the first rooms you walk into is filled with molding and hidden bookcases; its pretty spectacular.

Because youre working on your own home during social distancing, could you offer any advice on ways we can all elevate our spaces during this time?

A lot of it is being super frugal and using whats on hand. Im organizing and finding treasures that might have been hidden in a closet. Or repurposing something out of the archives and breathing new life into your space. And water your plants, because you want to keep them around during this.

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Chet Callahan of Chet Callahan ArchitectureLos Angeles

Blending historical precedents with progressive ideals, architect Chet Callahan imbues spaces with what he calls romantic functionalism.

We create form through careful consideration of the natural, the built environment and the future uses of the site, he said. We aim to create environmentally sensitive buildings and enhance our clients and our communitys experience.

A case in point is Mr. Callahans renovation of a 1934 Spanish-style home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles to fit the needs of its new ownersa young family of four.

He preserved the historical architectural details of the house, including the plaster cove moldings, the wooden floors and the wrought-iron embellishments. And he made it one with the landscape by adding large picture windows to, as he said, bring green leafy views inside.

He treated the interior spaces as a blank slate, painting the walls art-gallery white to accommodate the familys colorful contemporary art collection and added sleek yet comfortable furnishings.

The living room, for instance, features a faux-beamed ceiling with plaster corbels that is illuminated by a glittering crystal chandelier reminiscent of a full moon. The furnishings, which include a plum-colored tufted sofa in velvet, speak of the past, while the spare white bookshelves, where volumes are arranged by the color of their covers, bring the room into the present tense.

The new interventions, he said, have been rendered with minimal ornamentation as a juxtaposition to the existing features of the home, the clients vibrant art and the surrounding garden.

Before opening his eponymous firm in 2017, Mr. Callahan, who is 39, worked for Marmol Radziner + Associates, XTEN Architecture and AGPS.

His firm has worked on a variety of projects, including a multi-generational compound in Culver City; an artists complex in North Hollywood; and the re-envisioning of Los Felizs oldest estate.

A two-time winner of Interior Design magazines Best of Year (2007 and 2014), Mr. Callahan, became interested in design at a young age.

I used to watch my dad build furnitureand just about everything else, he said. And I went antiques shopping with my mom.

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A bedroom is a space you retire to at the end of the day. It is your happy space where you come to and want to feel a sense of calm to help you recharge for the next day or at least that is what it is supposed to be! Given our cramped spaces and hectic times, bedrooms are no longer sacred. But that doesnt mean we cant aspire and have bedroom goals to rival the best of Instagram! The bedroom designs showcased here today are modern, elegant, minimal and most of all give you the detachment and escapism from our daily grind and inspire you to be the best version of yourself.

Every bedroom deserves its privacy, after all, it is the place where you can let yourself be. Vasyl Ambroziaks bedroom visualization gives you this privacy but without the boring walls! Using a glass wall to partition between the bedroom and the raw concrete exterior wall, Vasyl adds an explosion of green in place of a boring old wallpaper. In fact, as the plants change with the season, you get a unique backdrop and of course the calmness of being surrounded by such a green space. Isnt it perfectly zen?

While the previous design pays homage to everything green, this design by Matts Miliaukas respects the earthy shades. Using muted shades of stone grey, the highlight of this room is the lava-like backlit wall, making this room perfect for anyone who prefers a darker color scheme. The aesthetics of this design bring to mind a lair or a covered room that highlights your nocturnal nature.

Mostafa Hardanis bedroom design plays up textural elements to create focal points. The wooden highlight wall behind the bed is lit up and the beautiful minimal lighting lets the wooden texture do all the talking. Not to forget the vertical green wall adds some natural purification to the room, helping you sleep better.

A high vaulted ceiling, a wooden pedestal that stretches up to the ceiling in an unbroken line, and the subtle light underneath the bed this bedroom interior by Taras Kaminskiy & Veronika Mulieieva named Urban Jungle has tranquility. The light under the bed makes the bed almost levitate, inducing a calming effect the moment you step into this room, draining away all your worries.

The thrill of a floating bed! Stephen Tsymbaliuks use of this floating bed amplifies the airy/spacious feeling that is the key element of this bedroom design. The open walk-in closet behind the darkened glass adds a modern touch whereas the trees creating a backdrop behind the bed amplify the feeling of floating up between the trees.

Philipp Pablitschkos shot of this bedroom surrounded by nature is the first on my post-quarantine travel bucket list! Almost magical in its aesthetic, the vertically slanting windows on the sides of this bed create the drama and escapism we all are surely craving after being stuck in this urban jungle during quarantine!

White is one of the most difficult colors to achieve visual contrast with, but designer Nazar Tsymbaliuk uses textured walls to achieve this difference and harmony. The project is named Gloria and located in Greece, the interior complements the traditional white and blue color scheme that the traditional Greek architecture is renowned for.

Polyviz Visualization Studio created this render using leather to add a touch of ruggedness to this bedroom. From the headboard to the base of the bed, the dark brown leather upholstery creates the perfect setup on which to accent your bedroom.

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Seeing these designs, we cant help but bring out our notepad and get inspired to make changes to our current setup after all, whats the point of all this time to ourself if we cant use it to get ourselves come out better on the other side of the post corona world!

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Anne Zuckerberg had a reputation as an in-demand interior designer with an eye for tasteful antiques.

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One day in 1958, a free-spirited New Jersey homemaker with a creative streak took out an ad in the local newspaper: Confused in choosing fabrics? Think you cant afford a decorator? Call me."

Soon, Anne Zuckerbergs phone started ringing. Sporadically at first. Then seemingly nonstop.

In the ensuing decades, Zuckerberg built a reputation as an in-demand interior designer with an eye for tasteful antiques and a talent for sprucing up living rooms, penthouses and lobbies across New Jersey and New York. An early client was Skitch Henderson, the Grammy Award-winning New York Pops conductor and first Tonight Show bandleader.

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But Zuckerberg wanted more. With boundless energy, she traveled the world, became an artist later in life and partied with friends at Palm Beach galas into her 90s.

It seemed like nothing could stop her. Then came the coronavirus pandemic.

The deadly respiratory disease somehow found Zuckerberg in late March, perhaps, as her daughter suspects, while she was recovering in a rehab facility from a broken hip suffered two months earlier when she fell at her Sapodilla Avenue apartment in West Palm Beach.

Struggling to breathe on March 31, she was taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center. She died April 4, about two months shy of her 95th birthday.

To think that that virus took her down in a matter of days is just uncanny," said her daughter-in-law, Marybeth Zuckerberg. She walked every day. She had better legs than most 60-year-olds. Annie was a fighter to the very end."

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Zuckerberg moved to West Palm Beach years ago to be close to her friends, who included Palm Beachers and members of the local arts community. She appeared in Palm Beach Daily News photos at the Armory Art Centers Mad Hatters luncheon, Miami Ballet receptions and Kravis Center galas.

She was a great person who lived life to the fullest," said Susan Bloom, one of her closest friends. We lost a good one."

The daughter of a builder, Zuckerberg was always drawn to the arts. During her three decades as an interior decorator, she dabbled in painting interpretive portraits as a hobby.

But when she retired, she painted prolifically," said her son, Sid Zuckerberg. She did some amazing stuff. Some she gave away and sold."

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Just five years ago, a collection of her paintings was displayed at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County gallery in downtown Lake Worth Beach.

"We were proud to showcase Ms. Zuckerberg's artwork in a 2015 solo exhibition at the Cultural Council," said Dave Lawrence, the councils president and chief executive. This is a big loss for Palm Beach County's artist community, but we will continue to honor her legacy in our hearts and creative endeavors."

For creative inspiration, Zuckerberg seemed to tap the past, even though her ideas were progressive.

She loved Marie Antoinette. She thought she was Marie Antoinette reincarnated," said her daughter, Elish Kodish. She was just a really independent spirit ahead of her time."

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In an interview in 1969, Zuckerberg acknowledged her consternation 11 years earlier when she decided to place the newspaper ad seeking clients, against the wishes of her husband.

I love glamour and design but was always hiding in the background. It took guts to launch my career but I knew I had to do it," she told The Record of Hackensack, N.J., for a story under a headline touting her as a New-Look Designer."

To gain more experience, she joined the staff at Tony Art Galleries in Englewood, N.J., where she developed a knack for arranging displays that caught the attention of frequent customers like Rat Packer Joey Bishop and comedian Buddy Hackett.

She would make vignettes with different antiques in the store, and from there she got jobs. Thats how she built her career," said Kodish, who took over Anne Zuckerberg Associates when her mom retired. She had a very top-echelon clientele."

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Kodish wouldnt divulge the names of her mother's clients. But in 1969, they included Henderson, the orchestra conductor for whose Manhattan home she selected upholstery fabric, and the owners of the Hazel Bishop cosmetics company, inventor of the first long-lasting lipstick, according to her profile in The Record.

She attributes her success to hard-nosed aggressiveness, a trait she had to cultivate in order to make her presence felt," the story said.

The story also described the antiques inside Zuckerbergs home in Teaneck, N.J., a Louis XV sofa covered with black linen next to a glass top cocktail table, an early Dutch bombe chest with marquetry, a Japanese table she stripped down and bleached, and walls painted cognac.

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"She wasn't one of these designers that did pretty little things. She really, architecturally, did all kinds of buildings, complicated lighting, custom furniture," Kodish said.

My mom worked well into her late 80s. She would have worked forever. She loved her work."

A year ago, after turning 94, Zuckerberg danced at her grandson's wedding. She enjoyed living by herself at The Metropolitan, a condo building not far from Cityplace and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts.

Her main focus was on her friends," Sid said. She had a very active social life. Her friends were much younger than she. They wanted her around. She was the life of the party."

One day in January, in the kitchen at her condo, she took a wrong turn and went down. She broke her hip," Sid said. Although she was a very robust person, still, she was 94."

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After successful surgery at Good Samaritan Medical Center, she was released to a rehab facility to recuperate. She was doing well," said Sid, who visited her for two weeks before going back home to Connecticut.

After she was rushed to Good Sam on March 31, she was put on a ventilator. She was diagnosed with pneumonia. A coronavirus test came back positive on April 2, two days before she died.

Her family praised the compassionate hospital staff for setting up a video conference call so they could say their final goodbyes.

I keep feeling like she's in Mexico on vacation and she's going to come home," Kodish said, but that's not going to happen."

jcapozzi@pbpost.com

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