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Bunny Williams on Life After Decorating

In her third book, Bunny Williams' Scrapbook for Living, the New York uber-decorator best known in these parts for generously throwing open her Falls Village garden gate to one and all on behalf of any good cause, tells us how to live in our houses once they are ostensibly

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The Case for a (Sometimes) Messy and Mismatched House

In her latest book, A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of Misspent Life,  Mary Randolph Carter, long-time creative director for Ralph Lauren, makes an amusing and persuasive case for living creatively with collections, clutter, work, kids, pets, art, etc. She also encourages her readers to stop worrying about everything

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10th Annual Cornwall House Tour Spans Four Centuries

"This is the anti-McMansion house tour," says architect and sculptor Tim Prentice, who has worked on two of the six houses in this year's tour, which is centered around bucolic Cream Hill Lake. "You won't see any stone walls with hospital corners here!

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Historic Hudson House Tour: At Home with History

Six intriguing Hudson houses, once derelict now brought back to vibrant life, promise to make for a fascinating tour this Saturday to benefit Historic Hudson, an advocacy group devoted to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of the city. Each of the properties, which are all within walking distance of

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Country Style + Community Conscience = Hammertown at 25

In the very beginning 25 years ago, there were mostly crafts and gift items. "And lots of dried flowers!" recalls Hammertown Barn owner and founder Joan Osofsky, grinning and wincing at the memory of mid-1980s country style. "We had quilting and stenciling workshops, too." When she

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A Redone Ranch House is Finally Ready for its Close-Up

Two years ago, Jack Thomasson,  producer of the TV show “Blog Cabin” on the DIY Network asked Millbrook architect James Crisp to come up with a plan to transform a dreary 1970s ranch house, left, that happened to be in a wonderful location (overlooking the Bethel Arts Center on the

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George and Suzy, an Avant Garde Pas de Deux

The on-going ArtBerkshires exploration of the enduring influence of 20th-century modernism on 21st-century architecture, art, and crafts puts a well-deserved spotlight put on the Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio in Lenox.  The first modernist building in New England, the house is only part of the story there.  The couple who

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A House Grows in Gallatin: Susan Orlean and John Gillespie

On Sunday the writer Susan Orlean ("The Orchid Thief" and a biography of Rin-Tin-Tin that is in the works), will be among the featured authors at the weekend-long Berkshire WordFest, at The Mount in Lenox. Orlean and her husband John Gillespie recently gave Rural Intelligence a tour of

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The 63rd Annual Litchfield Open House Day

The collection of antique houses that line Litchfield's North and South Streets are so impressively well-kept that you cannot help but wonder whether they're historic homes or merely facades constructed for a movie set. They are very real indeed, and this weekend you have an opportunity

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Matthew White's La Dolce Vita in Columbia County

You don't normally hear people talk about Hillsdale, NY, and Venice, Italy, in the same breath, but Matthew White has never been interested in what's normal.  An interior designer whose whose work is classical, eclectic, and widely published ( Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home)

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How to Sell a House: Scenes from a Staging

"I don't like the word 'staging'," says James Male, one of two Columbia County agents with Mark Phillips Realty, a boutique agency headquartered across the river in Durham, NY (Greene County).  "It implies fakery; I prefer to say 'editing.' " Call

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The Queen of Mid-Century Modest

When Pam Kueber and her husband David Fisher bought their 1951 ranch house in Lenox in 2001, it was not because they were devotees of the mid-century modern style.  Their previous house, in Michigan, had been a 1912 Colonial Revival/Arts and Crafts pastiche, and through renovating that, they had

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