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• The Well-Worn Interior (October 2007)
  This summer I sat in the house of an older friend who lives in Vermont and just looked. She’s lived in this Civil-war era house for more than 40 years. Everywhere I looked ... ...read more
• The Pursuit of Sun in a Cold Climate (September 2007)
  It was July, I had just moved to the Netherlands, and desperately wanted to go to the beach. I put on my bathing suit, jeans, wool sweater and socks, Bean boots ... ...read more
• Let the Sun Shine In (September 2007)
  As we’re seeing less of it these days, we’re thinking of it more...more sun. ...read more
• Some Thoughts on a Summer Escape (August 2007)
  Summer in Maine is a short season. Now it’s finally begun, we thick-blooded types are happiest with our feet in a cold lake ...read more
• Lessons from the First Lady of Interior Decoration (June 2007)
  Elsie de Wolfe, known as the First Lady of interior decoration, told the world in 1913 to “decorate our rooms by the process of elimination.” ...read more
• Collect for Love not Money and Get Your Kicks for (Nearly) Free (June 2007)
  “Stop me—don’t let me do this!” is what my husband hears from me yet again in an antique mall with yet another pottery planter clutched to my chest. ...read more
• A Face Lift that Lasts (May 2007)
  Our seemingly never-ending interior renovation is now so far along that I’ve some time to look dispassionately at the outside of the house and have decided we need more of what is generally called “curb appeal.” Since we live on a private dirt road that overused term is a misnomer. ...read more
• How Green is Your Garden (May 2007)
  My mother is an avid organic gardener and what she touches flourishes. In the late 60s and early 70s, when four of her children were of prime weeding age, we lived well off a half-acre vegetable garden and she canned and froze throughout September. She still claims one of her best anniversary presents ever was truckload of rotted manure. (She was not a hippie—she was a 50’s mom, registered Republican, and Sunday School teacher.) ...read more
• Spring Cleaning or Confronting Vacuum Phobia (April 2007)
  The dog has started his serious shedding, the outsides of the windows are fogged with salt mist that is obvious now the sun is streaming through the windows. It’s clear there’s work to be done. ...read more
• We All Need a Garden Angel (April 2007)
  Last fall I read the articles about “putting your garden to bed”, then I didn’t do it. In October I was reveling in late roses, still-blooming snapdragons, thriving eggplant, and a bumper crop of arugula. ...read more
• Wasabi--The New Black (March 2007)
  One evening I read “How wasabi became the new black”, a New Yorker article on color forecasts. The next morning I walked into a friend’s newly renovated historic house in New Hampshire and discovered wasabi, a yellow-based green, brightening her dining /kitchen area. ...read more

These articles orginally appeared in . Articles posted with permission of The Forecaster.