Hastening Spring
I don't know if it was the trip to Connecticut yesterday where flowering trees and spring blooms are abundant and lush or just my usual impatience at this time of year, but against my better judgment...
View ArticleThe Dining Room Update
Back in February when I wrote about the restyled living room at Church Street I mentioned that I would follow up with the consecutive revamping of the dining room. It's hard to believe it has taken me...
View ArticleWords To Decorate By
"The objects we surround ourselves with form our private language. When we put these into play with personal memories, mythologies, and points of view, we express a rich personal world." - Susan...
View ArticleScent, Memory
My grandmother loved a party and she threw several spectacular ones at her house in Rhode Island during the summers I spent with her. The hall was invariably filled with Oriental lilies and to this day...
View ArticleGuest Posting at Tone on Tone and A Giveaway
Please pop over to Tone on Tone where I am thrilled to be guest posting at one of my favorite blogs. Loi is sharing my tour of Bunny Williams' exquisite Connecticut gardens and offering the chance to...
View ArticleAn Antiquarian's Garden
I spent a few days last month travelling through Connecticut and was fortunate that my trip coincided with the Garden Conservancy's Open Day in Litchfield County. I cannot sing the praises of the...
View ArticleEleish Van Breems
I recently had the pleasure of spending a day with one of my personal design icons, interior designer and antiques dealer Edie van Breems. Edie and her business partner Rhonda Eleish are the founders...
View ArticleSerenity Now!
I hadn't planned on taking a summer hiatus from blogging, but following the blur of camps, colleges and Comfort Inns that July melded into, we left for a three week tour of northern Europe. I posted...
View ArticleAutumnal Equinox
My favorite time of year has arrived and with it the usual flurry of seasonal nesting activity - which in my case means purging the house of everything that has become superfluous over the last six...
View ArticleEverything’s Bigger in Russia
I am finally getting around to selecting prints for a photo album of our summer travels. (Does anyone else still do this or are you strictly digital?) While I store photos online I don't ever revisit...
View ArticleSeize The Week
Most people probably think of Spring as a time of rebirth, but personally fall has always felt like the season for beginning again and starting new projects. This morning the cold weather I've been...
View ArticleDumbarton Oaks
My daughter and I traveled to Washington, DC last weekend, partly for business but mostly for pleasure. We had beautiful weather, stopped into all my old haunts in Georgetown, saw friends, ate well and...
View ArticleLondon Calls Again
Following my trip to Washington I was home for less than 48 hours before leaving for London to visit my sister, Irene. I wouldn't normally plan travel like that, but Irene asked me late last summer if...
View ArticleBlue Christmas
My love of all things Scandinavian goes into overdrive as the holidays approach and the icy winter wonderland outside my window has me thinking blue and white for this year's holiday decor. It began...
View ArticleChurch Street Christmas
There is no question of a white Christmas this year as December has already delivered quite a bit of snow to Vermont. It is a beautiful start to winter and we are looking forward to celebrating at...
View ArticleFamily Photos
I was travelling last week when I got a message from a kind friend who spotted these 1930's press photos of my grandmother and her sister on eBay. This is my grandmother with her fiancé leaving the...
View ArticleSo Long Church Street
Saving this house was nothing less than a labor of love and anyone who was here at the time will remember my vowing that I would only be leaving Church Street on a gurney. I think we all know such...
View ArticleEngland's Green and Pleasant Land
I feel like I've just emerged from the black hole that was our spring. Between moving and readying the house for the new owners, the end of school and Sophie's graduation, squeezing in two final...
View ArticleAndrew Pearce Bowls
This fall in northern New England has been nothing less than idyllic – the foliage has been uncommonly rich and the hillsides are bathed in color. We’ve had a long stretch of warm, sunny afternoons and...
View ArticleHenhurst in New England Home Magazine
A little excitement in what has otherwise been a quiet fall...the publication of a beautiful feature on Henhurst in the current issue of New England Home magazine. The photos, taken shortly before we...
View ArticleStill Giving Thanks
Just because I love this place, having the chicks at home, the light at this time of year and an open window on a nearly 60-degree day in November. Related StoriesThanksgiving FlashbackHenhurst...
View ArticleA More Than Happy New Year
While I'm glad 2015 is behind me, it certainly ended on a high note. In the Home & Garden section of Thursday's Washington Post, I was included in a list of six Instagram accounts to follow for...
View ArticleDecorating With Antiques
The start of this year has been the busiest in recent memory. In late winter, as I was finishing up two projects, I began two more and one of those lovely new clients, Alice, has paid me the highest...
View ArticleWhither Spring?
Arriving home to freezing rain in Boston that turned to snow as we crossed into New Hampshire (where there were actually plows deployed on the highway,) I'm feeling betrayed by Mother Nature and...
View ArticleNemours
If I were to admit there is a benefit to having the chicks at school in Virginia it would be that the travel between here and there has opened a whole new region of the country for me to explore. And...
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