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New York Botanical Garden Offers Courses at Bard

Throughout the fall, the New York Botanical Garden will once again offer a selection of its popular gardening and landscape design classes on Saturdays at its satellite center at Bard College.  The inaugural one-day course, Gardening with Ornamental Grasses, is this Saturday.  As pre-registration is essential, our advice is to

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Shopping: Everyone You Need to See in One Convenient Place

The Fine Home Source Show this Saturday in Millbrook is perfectly timed.  Now that the rainy season is finally behind us, a refresher course in domestic amenity is in order, so we and our poor water-logged houses are prepared for the next challenge.  In a fraction of the time it

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The Wandering Eye: Doris Leslie Blau Lands in Hudson

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes is getting worried.  My favorite NYC resources keep establishing outposts in Hudson, so I’m able to do ‘city shopping’ in the country. I have even more excuses for my

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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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Cedar Heights Orchard in Dutchess County on Open Days Tour

Garden Conservancy Open Days are drawing to a close for the season.  On Saturday, September 13, there is just one in our region, Cedar Heights Orchard, William and Arvia Morris' large property in Rhinebeck, New York. After a major storm twelve years ago, the Morris' created a “wild”

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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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Shopping: Tivoli Mercantile Puts the Red Back in Red Hook

As bright and cheerful as the bouquet of zinnias that greets customers as they walk through the door, Tivoli Mercantile, the new shop in Red Hook owned by Jill Cornillon, has something for everyone; at least, everyone who is likely to be walking down East Market Street in Red Hook

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Hollister House Garden's "Late Season" Plant Sale Plus

Those great sweeps of bright orange day lilies that looked so vibrant and "country" in our garden in July?   Nothing but yellowing foliage and dry stalks now.  The thyme-and-alyssum walk that was the essence of charm just a few weeks ago? Shot-to-seed, and in its present cut-back state,

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The Wandering Eye: Boning Up on Upholstery

There is a constant up here in the country:  We all share resources, but even so, we all have gaping holes in our Rolodexes/Palms/Outlooks.  “Do you have a good, cheap painter?” (Dream on.)  “My mowing guy quit! Who do you use?” (First tell me why he quit...) “My

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The Wandering Eye: The Taconic, Reconsidered

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are princpals in the M (Group). So, there we are cruising along the Taconic headed back to town on a pleasant Sunday evening.  Pondering.  Pensive.  Bored out of my gourd.  What to fix The Eye on next?

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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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A Garden Tour that Takes On The Bigger Picture

There are garden tours and then there is this, the Ancram Preservation Group's Working Landscapes 2009, a tour of eight properties that either are working farms or, if no longer actively working, retain a working-farm aesthetic.  Though there are gardens on all of these properties, the plantings here

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