A FRIEND OF MINE has had a tendency to move often, both her family’s primary residence and weekend/vacation homes. Fortunately, she also has a talent for making any apartment or home look Domin...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/hamptons-weekend-cottage-keeps-it-simple/
WITH TWO AS-YET SEMI-FURNISHED BEACH HOUSES to rent this summer, I’m back to my old shoestring-decorating tricks. Nothing I love more than visiting thrift shops and yard sales with a purpose. O...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/styling-for-summer/
THE WAITING GAME continues. I’ve officially “gone to contract” on the Long Island beach house deal I’ve been patiently coddling for almost two years now. The seller has signed the contrac...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/the-big-reveal-inside-my-beach-house-to-be/
SOMETIMES I THINK I have a case of arrested decorating development. At my age — a couple of generations past 30, which is the age of Grace Bonney, hugely successful design blogger and now autho...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/book-review-designsponge-at-home/
MY NEW EVERY-THURSDAY SERIES for Brownstoner.com continues today in a new, easier-to-read format, with a garden floor-through in the heart of Cobble Hill by interior designer Julia Mack. These ar...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/the-insider-apartment-for-one-in-cobble-hill/
ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT BLOGGING is making new friends. Lula and I met only a few months ago, when she stumbled upon my blog and contacted me. We soon discovered we are neighbors in two pla...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/bohemian-splendor-in-cobble-hill/
ONE E-MAIL LIST I’LL NEVER UNSUBSCRIBE FROM is Emery & Cie, a European textile and wallpaper company whose elegant designs and sophisticated color palettes always send me into a reverie of an a...
I LOVE VINTAGE RATTAN FURNITURE so much, I once thought of opening a store devoted to it and calling it Bamboozled. I didn’t, for many reasons, but I’m still a sucker for the stuff. It’s st...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/bamboozled-cheapo-summer-decorating/
WHEN I PHOTOGRAPHED my friend Nancy’s house in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, for a Brownstone Voyeur post last spring, I scrupulously avoided the kitchen. At the time, it was badly in need of a re-do,...
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/nancys-new-kitchen/
WHEN I FIRST SAW Phyllis Landi’s cedar-shingled cottage on a curving half-acre waterfront lot not far from the ridiculously charming village of Sag Harbor, I thought I’d found my dream house....
https://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/hamptons-voyeur-quintessential-cottage-in-sag-harbor-2/