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Home is where you hide your booze.

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Well, lovelies, Tex has got some very big news for you. Can you -- oh, forget it, everyone hates guessing games. I bought a house! Here in the lovely little 'burb of North Carolina* that I'm obliged to call home for the next three years, your ol' girl Tex has just picked up her very own piece of local real estate . Now, Tex's house is coming into my life the way so many good things have: suddenly, cheaply, with absolutely no preparation, and completely naked. So that means I've got to pick out everything:  house numbers, fixtures, paint colors, exactly what vague shape I should place in my window to creep out my neighbors -- the works! Now, Tex and Coda are deeply unqualified to do this kind of delicate work. So we've sought a little help from our friends. My Scandinavian Home is a collection of profiles of beautiful homes in the classic and modern Scandinavian styles. Sheepskins, modernist furniture, and tiny frightened plants barely holding grou