home design: September 2011

Upper Valley Home Improvement Guide

Did you see the article on Bonin Architect's lakefront cottage project makeover in the Upper Valley Home Improvement Guide?This great cottage has won several design build awards, including a Merit Award and the People's Choice Award from the 2011 AIANH Excellence in Architecture Awards!The homeowners were involved from conception to completion,...

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Expectations

This weekend is special... And that means usually we are having guests! After 10 years my parents are visiting again from Europe, as well as my sister - for the very first time coming to America and my oldest son arrives with his girl from Berlin! It's going to be a wonderful reunion.There has been lots of prepping and sorting, making space...

Autumn polish

Fall is for me like the beginning of a new year. Perhaps the onset of a new school year makes me feel that way. Spring moves seamless into summer, but it's different with autumn. It always fills me with the need for autumn clean up and I am off to a good start:First the dining room: I sorted out, moved china on display in my china...

We remember

Today I we remember the September morning 10 years ago, filled with sunshine only to turn into terrible terror! I remember the many lives lost!No words can describe how it moves me to see these pictures again!I will never forget!New York is my city as well and to see her rise from the sadness to new beginnings fills me with such...

Survival of the fittest

After some time I have fallen back into the old habits of gathering and collecting.It's a mystery to me how it happens!My house begins to look like a pawn shop, everything is everywhere, I am not a hoarder, or am I?I love things and I love to surround myself but then there always comes the breaking point where I begin to feel overwhelmed....

Have you seen? Ladurée

Just when I needed a little lift......There is this lovely brand new Ladurée shop in town. New York City that is and a few days ago I've been there and only the line-up out the door stopped me from trying out some of their delicacies...The blog world is full of delicious stories of their macarons, I do not need to tell you what they...

The parting

Another summer comes slowly to an end by way of sending our kids back to school, our older ones off to college and our selves back into the rhythm of the working routine.Today I am sad; my second oldest boy had to fly back to Europe, back to his life and studies, so far away from us. We will miss him dearly. Every parting pulls on my...