When I saw photos of Martha Stewart’s guest house in Maine, I was really intrigued. She painted every room in this soft pink color. Not just the walls, but the trim, the moldings, and even the frames like the one on the mirror, above.
Do you like this look? Is it pretty in pink? Or would [...]
Today Kari & Kijsa are hosting a “Mantel Party,” where everyone takes a photo of theirs and posts it on their blog. I know you’ve seen photos of my mantel before, but it sounded like too much fun not to play along.
Here’s a photo from right after we moved into our house. My daughter Lily [...]
Back in February I posted photos of 1950s kitchens from an old Better Homes & Gardens Decorating book I had just bought. It continues to be a popular post all these months later–apparently there are a lot of people Googling “retro rooms.”
I had promised to show you more photos from the book “in weeks to [...]
It’s time to show you the actual houses that were on the North Avondale Home Tour last weekend. This 1937 Normandy Manor, known as The Levine House, will be our first stop.
But first, to set the scene, I’m going to tell you how I embarrassed myself a little that day. I don’t know why, since [...]
This week’s Fantasy Open House tour was so much fun! Thanks to all of you who so gamely participated in it. I think I’ll pick another town for us to tour again soon.
Here’s how things are looking in the polls at the moment:
Rookwood house: the majority is undecided and wants to “Sleep on it.”
Edwards house: [...]
Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, and their four children are moving into this gorgeous Gambrel shingle-style, traditional home in Quogue, an incorporated village inside Southampton, New York. According to Newsday’s Real LI blog, they paid $6.3 million for the 6 bedroom, 7.5 bath home (it had been on the market for $7.25 million, so they [...]
One of the biggest problems with houses today is that so few of them have any real character. If you read my post about our family-room makeover, or saw the photos from my writing-room makeover, you know we started with a big, blank slate of white boxy rooms when we moved into our house.
Our solution? A [...]
I’m crazy about porches. The strange thing is that it’s so hard to find houses with them any more. In our entire neighborhood, a subdivision less than 7 years old, there are only a handful of houses that have them. When we built ours, we paid the builder extra to change the front elevation and [...]
This grand old home known as “Cobble Court” sits on 9 rolling acres. It has 9 bedrooms and 8 baths, and it’s on the market for $8.7 million. It was built in 1933 to look like a French Norman country estate and definitely looks European. Surprisingly, though, it’s not really French–it’s right here in Ohio, just a few miles away from my [...]
I love touring fabulous houses, even if the only way I can see them is online. I’m betting that since you came to a site called “Hooked on Houses,” you do, too.
Here’s a 100-year old mansion in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis that has 4,400 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. [...]
