Mother/daughter relationships can be tricky. We all have countless girl friends still reeling from the scars inflicted by this basic relationship. Let’s just say Emily and Lorelai Gilmore are not extraordinary. That said, through some wonderful gift and happenstance, I have been blessed with a fabulous mother. She’s a little ...
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Some live in vintage homes. Others live in modern ones. We live in both. At the same time. You see, our house has a long architectural history, added to (quite dramatically, I might add) by my grandfather in 1968. The story of The Glass Room is one of family and ...
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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 ...
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Some spaces my family doesn’t care about so much. “Do whatever you like,” is their attitude. However, there are certain spaces about which everyone has an opinion. I indulge a family which embraces tradition (read: no changes) and constancy (read: throw nothing away). These two qualities, together, can create a ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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