Consummate Home Connoisseurs
Tom Hickey calls the small cottage gardens that surround his east side home his Garden of Eden.
“When we walk out into our garden, all the shrubs and trees make it feel like we are enclosed in an area far away from the city. When it’s in full bloom, it looks like everything is woven together. It looks like an impressionist painting. It’s our little Garden of Eden,” he said.
He also calls the gardens in his 40-by-120-foot lot “organized chaos.”
“There is a lot of stuff packed in this little yard,” he said of the gardens he has tended
Kelsey Grose, founder and principal designer of Farmer’s Daughter Interiors, decided to make a fresh start out of a familiar palette. Her husband Shayne and their children, Cyrus and Wyndsor, moved into a farmhouse on the edge of a small village near Swift Current, Canada, last year when the opportunity arose to return.
“This was my grandma’s yard and home,” she says. “My dad grew up here and I spent tons of time here as a child. The house was being rented before we made an unexpected decision to move.” The wide lawn, with its raspberry bushes and wide open
House and Garden: A view toward the 1960s A-frame, where it all began.
Photo: Annie Schlechter
When Sumner Freeman bought this 1960s A-frame house in Fire Island Pines in 1980, the property it sat on was so obscured by poison ivy, catbrier, and Virginia creeper that he couldn’t even see it, and yet it called to him. “It was charming, and I could see the possibilities, and it suited me,” Freeman says. In the 1990s, he bought the house next door and then, in the aughts, with his partner Roy
The Tulsa Garden Railroad Club is hosting an event that will give anyone the chance to see some elaborate backyard model train setups.
The sound of a train whistle can be heard when walking into Bob and Shelia Buttram’s backyard.
“We’ve always called it Green Acres and we try to keep it green,” said Bob.
It’s a place where your imagination makes the rules.
“What’s in your mind, you just run with it,’ Bob said.
Their garden railroad is a passion project 16 years in the making.
“In 2005 we started working on this. I went to a home show,
The next time you walk through a friend’s home, do a quick visual sweep. Is it monochromatic, done in varying shades of beige, white, or blue? Houston-based interior designer Lucinda Loya believes that once you’re aware, you’ll notice the ubiquity of uniformity. “You’ll start to see that a lot of projects lack contrast,” the decorator insists. “So I always put some black and some white in every room to provide a visual point of reference—from no color to absolute color. I call it the ‘equilibrium of interiors.’”
For a successful Houston tech executive and a jewelry designer, plus their three
Explore the Big Brother 23 house in full detail. Take a look inside each room in the BB23 house, which is being called BB Beach Club.
The Big Brother 23 house is being called “BB Beach Club,” and we have all the details that fans want to check out about this Monte Carlo-inspired house where the BB23 players will be competing for $500,000 all summer long. Every year, the fans anticipate getting to know the Big Brother house as much as they look forward to meeting the cast members. In the past, notable house themes included “Good vs. Evil” (
