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House of Their Dreams

UST AS THE WALLS WERE coming down inside her Houston home and the floor plan was being reconfigured, Cynthia Davis and her architect husband, Issac Preminger, wrote out their individual wish lists. “When you remodel your house with your husband, who’s the architect for it all no less, you need to make your wishes known,” says Davis, the proprietor and founder of Indulge Décor + Fashion, a Houston destination filled with fine and distinctive European goods. “We weren’t allowed to scratch off anything from each other’s wish

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