For this series of Instagrammers I love, I’m heading back to my East Coast roots. Sandra @oldsilvershed, has the most gorgeous storybook home in Cape Cod, overlooking the water. She and her husband renovated this home to perfection with attention to every small detail. But more than that, it is a house that feels like a home. Believe me when I tell you there were so many inspiring photos to choose from that I was lost in Sandra’s feed for…
While I love living in Santa Barbara, California, there are some things that just can’t be duplicated here on the West coast. A part of me will always love New England…Connecticut to be specific, where we still own a home. Here are a few recent glimpses of some of my favorite things about Fairfield County, Connecticut.…
I didn’t dare share this until we closed on the house. I was sure that I would jinx the whole thing. On my last visit to Connecticut in June, it came to our attention that a few homes had become available in a small coastal area near our rented townhouse. This is a community that rarely sees houses come on the market and so we decided to check a few of them out.…
As many of you might know, I’ve spent this week helping my parents with their new farmhouse in Vermont. How lucky am I to have parents who still hike, ski, and build houses? They decided that it was time for a change and sold their little place in Vermont and got right to work on building a new abode in East Rupert. After selling group insurance for 16 years from 1966-1981 (and working in the World Trade Center when it opened in 1973)…
As I was doing some New Years purging of my desk, I came across the real estate brochure from our previous home in Westport, Connecticut. I hadn’t looked at it in some time and so with fresh eyes I studied the pictures of the home that we had lived in for twenty years. I only wish I had some of the before photos- they are probably buried somewhere in the garage in our old photo albums.…
