Monday, October 14, 2019

Our Lake House Inspiration Board

Its been months and months of planning for the lake house that we plan to build next year in New Hampshire.  Dream homes come in  many shapes, sizes, styles and prices and ours is a modest one, but a dream home nonetheless! I have a lot of experience buying a home and redoing it, but never have we built a home, and so this is exciting but a different process. We are using a modular company that will build this house to our specifications, and it needs to conform to the allowances...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A Garden tour at a French Country Estate in Newport Rhode Island

Matthew Mead took me to a book launch party last month.  It was held  at the French Country estate of retired food editor of  Bon Appetit magazine, Bettie Bearden Pardee.  Bettie is the author of the blog Private Newport,  and gives her readers the insider view of wonderful Newport Rhode Island. Bettie is featured in the new book, Entertaining at Home, by Ronda Carmen.   Matthew was the principal photographer and I shared many fascinating chats with...
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