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A Chatham Architect Designs a Prize-Winning Poolhouse

By day, it appears to be a cluster of nicely maintained farm buildings, just as the Chatham architect James Dixon intended. This is but one of the aspects of this poolhouse project that impressed the jury at the Eastern New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which, on

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Interiors: A Hands-On Couple's Graphic Redesign

"The day I met him," says Raina Kattelson of her husband, Robert Butscher, an architect with Wadia Associates in New Canaan, CT, "he was trying to shore up the porch." For some women, that might have been an uh-oh, see-you-around-pal moment of truth but fortunately, she

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Innocents Abroad: Falling in Love with a Fixer Upper

From the moment they first saw Columbia County, Australians Sacha Dunn and Edmund Levine were hooked. "It was like a fairy tale to us," says Sacha, who, like her husband, works in New York as a stylist and set decorator for magazines, print ads, and television commercials. "

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A Showcase: The Greening of the Hudson Valley & New England

This weekend, Herrington's, the local hardware chain, is hosting, Lean Toward Green, a showcase of environmentally responsible, home building products and systems that promise to make our houses more energy efficient and comfortable. There will be special seminars on window replacement and insulation, where the tax incentives for

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Historic Hudson's Hidden Gems of Greenport Tour

That's right, Greenport. It's easy to dismiss this sprawling town, which embraces the city of Hudson on all borders except riverfront. The part north of the city, anchored by Fairview Avenue, is notable mostly for its strip malls. But even within this region, a textbook example

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A New Gilded Age Cottage With A Happy Disposition

It seems like it would be impossible to wake up in a bad mood in this house in Lenox, MA. When the publicity-shy owners called the New York design team of William Diamond and Anthony Baratta to see the house they were building in the Berkshires, Diamond demanded that they

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Decorate Like A Pro: Custom Curtains by Kristen Foster

Interior designers sell taste. They also sell connections. And if you are one of those people who's confident in your taste but don't know the artisans who can execute your ideas, you should make an appointment with Kristen Foster, a master curtain maker in Falls Village,

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Two House Tours with a Focus on History

To get the most out of a historic house tour, it's crucial to use your imagination, to "be there" at every stage in the property's development. Same building, 100 years later, is never the same, even when it has been preserved in amber as

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Getting It Right the First Time: A House Tour in Canaan, NY

Ever wonder why our Yankee forebears seem to have been incapable of designing a bad house, whereas, nearly everything we build requires remodeling every 20 years? On Sunday, June 14th, the Canaan (NY) 250 Committee launches its Bisesquicentennial Celebrations with an historic house tour, the town's first in

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Wishing Won't Do it, Saving and Slaving Will

Some would argue that the ramshackle property you see at left is my house. This is a scurrilous contention I would hotly deny. What I see when I look at my house is not what you see, or anyone else, for that matter. When I look, it is already painted

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Rural Rules of Life: Twenty Questions for "FLIP! For Decorating" Author Elizabeth Mayhew

Since she was a teenager, Elizabeth Mayhew, who hails from Louisville, KY, has been spending time in Millbrook, NY, where she came for New Year's Eve in 1984 to visit her Middlesex School classmate and future husband, Timothy, whom she married in 1993 when they were both 24.

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Au Revoir Basic French

The economy is really only part of it. There is another, even more compelling reason, if truth be told. But if it makes you feel better to blame the economy, welcome aboard. Basic French, the store specializing in French products for "la vie quotidienne" (everyday life) is shuttering

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