My Country Home Magazine Feature

 Country Home magazine's April to July 2019 issue is featuring so many great 

country homes, and it is a big thrill to have mine included!  

The story is called "Aged to Perfection" and that is because my country house

is not an old country house, but a prefab that I "aged" with vintage decor accents.

 The photography was done by Duanne Simon, who shot all the homes

in Nora Murphy's best seller, Nora Murphy's Country House Style. 

The story in Country Home was written by Deb Engle who interviewed me 

over the phone for an hour.  She did a beautiful job capturing where my sense

of decorating comes from, and how together with my husband we did the various

DIY projects that changed our house into a "country home".

I have saved Country Home magazine issues from decades ago, as it

was one of my very favorite magazines when I was a young home maker 

and decorator.  I loved the way country decor could give my home 

personal style using older things, inherited things, and unique ways to present

decorating ideas using everyday items, like the cover above illustrates.

And here is a note of personal interest....

Covers from December 2005 and 2007                          
My pal Matthew Mead was a Style Editor for years at Country Home.

He was invited to work there by none other than country decorating icon 

Mary Emmerling!

Many of the magazines I saved had covers he created. 

So COOL!

  Its amazing to think of the points of connection I have with him,

and this is just one more, and it was before we had even met.

Little did I think he would take me to a party for Mary and I would close

out the night sitting on a couch with Mary and Matthew chatting away.

Another super cool thing is that Matthew Mead is working for Country Home

today for a Christmas feature for them.

Its like a freaky full circle moment over here!!

Looking at the list above of Country Home players in 2007,

 I noticed other recognizable names, including talented

Sandra Soria, who wrote my story when I landed the cover of

Romantic Country magazine in the Spring of 2017. 

 Sadly this magazine is no longer being published.  

Which brings me to suggest, if you like particular magazines, 

like Country Home, then please subscribe.

This will help keep a magazine in business, and the price for issues is so 

much less than buying off the shelf.  

The current issue should be in stores where magazines are sold any day now.

Subscribers always get their issues ahead of the stores, and that is how 

I got mine yesterday.  After texting my sister Ellen, 

she went shopping for it and said she couldn't find it anywhere....

and that is why.  So give it another week sis, and you will see it

at Lowes or Home Depot, or at your local drugstore or bookstore.

Then fill out that subscription card and get future issues delivered to your door!

Read about the night we went to Mary Emmerling's party in NYC here.