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Light Fixtures
I don’t like flush mount fixtures. Mostly. Tending towards bulbous and/or bearing some relation to the anatomy (if round) or bad-nautical (if square), they bring so little to the decorative party that...
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What stays
rocks on maine sill What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? - Walt Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser” I need to ease...
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Re-imagined: the cobbling together of precious bits
and the making of a master bath… When we bought our home, it had a single full bath – on the garden floor. For the two years that elapsed between our move in date and the onset of our gut renos, we...
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gift for a boy
My husband, R, is Bulgarian so we have an “in” with this awesome country. When our son W was nearly one, we took him to Bulgaria – to see the land, be baptized, spend time with his grandparents, soak...
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a boy’s room begins (I see cypresses)
Boys Room Before – or W’s room pre-W When we bought our house, but before we’d moved in, we assigned rooms. And son W’s room was W’s room from the outset: it had belonged to the previous owner’s son...
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a boy’s room in parts: the curtains
Inspired by the rug, I sought my cypresses for W’s room. Uncle Bill’s Hooked Rug for W I thought cypresses would get maximum play as curtains for the room’s windows. They’d set the stage, beckon...
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Elements of Home: Books
I’m with Albert. The 200 pound, 40 year old orangutan residing in Gdansk Zoo who won’t go to sleep until his keeper reads him 50 pages of Pride and Prejudice each night. I really, truly wish that this...
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then we gather as we travel
raked, balanced and chaise lounges ready I haven’t traveled overseas in too long. Usual stuff – kids, home, work… Turns out, it’s not all that hard. Really. 4 hours, we arrived early, stewardesses...
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Elements of Style Blog – by Erin Gates
Indigo and Ochre Design featured on Elements of Style Blog Woke up this chilly Brooklyn morning (arrived, still sandy, from Jamaica last night) and on my morning blog-crawl what should I see but this...
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how it might look – imagining lives at Doyle’s HOME auction
pine tree and meadows I previewed Doyle Home yesterday. It was a glorious grab-bag showing the silverware-to-needlepoint-cushions contents of 10+ estates. The fun part, one of the fun parts, of...
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