11.   Except for one Back Bay brownstone, show houses have been country places.

12.   For a weekend, I bounced between the show house, a borrowed Escalade and my own not-ready-for-prime-time apartment.

13.   For the silver anniversary of the show house, says Lieberman.

14.   For this edition of the show house, Vanderpoel is designing a master bedroom.

15.   Going to a show house gives everyone the chance to imagine the life of a cat burglar.

16.   He had put two Philips plasma screens in his section of the Kips Bay show house last year.

17.   Her first idea for decorating the windows, one of them a leaded beauty, was a pair of gossamer fabric shutters she had seen at a show house.

18.   If, sadly, the objects in the show house must stay put, the sharp eyed can spot many good design ideas just there for the taking.

19.   If, sadly, the objects in the show house must stay put, the sharp-eyed can spot good design ideas, there for the taking.

20.   In a show house that was largely off-the-rack or out-of-the-atelier, this was an inspired bit of custom whimsy.