To get anywhere on the first floor of our house, you must pass through the dining room. It’s both the figurative and literal heart of our home. As you look through the pictures of this room, you’ll see how many doors and windows there are. It opens onto the Long ...
Read More(re)Defining Home – The Long Room, pt 2
Thank you so much for joining me on this tour of my home. Your comments and feedback have all made me smile. Thank you! Here’s the rest of The Long Room. (If you missed the first installment, it’s at (re)Defining Home – The Long Room. And the vintage photos and ...
Read More(Re)Defining Home – The Long Room
The first room you enter from the front of our house is The Long Room. But we never use it that way. In my grandmother’s day, the front door was never opened. You see, in 1952, ten years after she and her young family moved to Clifton on the Monocacy, ...
Read More(Re)Defining Home
I have been both blessed and cursed by my home. Don’t get me wrong: I love my home. But, as with all great relationships, we have our moments… You see, my home was my grandmother’s home. The matriarch of our family, the woman for whom I was named, my archetype ...
Read MoreAugust @ Chartreuse
Between visits to family homes and strolls through Frederick County, we’ve been filling our barns and getting ready for your visit this coming weekend. And now you get to visit one of my family’s homes: our home, here on the Chartreuse & co property, was my paternal grandparents’ home, and ...
Read MoreCool New Vintage Site
Check out this great new site, a unique search-engine for finding all the cool vintage available in the Washington, DC metro area. You’ll find listings from Chartreuse & co, plus loads of items from Barefoot Dwelling and Madison & Mabel, two of our dealers here at Chartreuse. If you haven’t ...
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