I love the carved scallop detail above the door- very unique. The black painted door looks sharpe against the red brick. This home exemplifies the transition between the Federal style ( windows) and the Greek Revival style (Ionic columns flank the door). The soft french blue door and red brick keep the overall feeling Federal. Greek Revival style Ionic columns flank the door. Like a solider’s coat with brass buttons and black shoes. It is a burst of happiness with shiny brass kick plates. The above lacquered red doors sing out on a cloudy day. Painted Doors: A fresh coat of red or blue high gloss paint on the front door gives your visitor an unexpected treat. Give them a hundred years and they will look just like the door above. The above two images are of new wooden doors with the carved floral details. This is an example of the carved floral detail that is found on several doors in the west village. Greek Revival style ionic columns flank the door The stain is worn where hands have pushed and pulled over the years. Without a fresh coat of paint to hide their history their beautiful flaws are on display. Wooden Doors: There is something so warm and homey about these distressed wooden doors. These are my favorite doors of the West Village. If they are focusing on the details of the exterior just imagine what the interior must look like!! Let your imaginations run wild with all the beautiful images below. When I spy a particularly dashing door, large potted boxwoods, or bursting flower boxes I am sent into overdrive. I am surrounded by beautiful town houses in the west village and I fantasize about the interiors of all of them. We have been taught not to judge a book by its cover… (“I Married Adventure” by Ola Johnson is an example to that rule) but buyers know within 8 seconds if they are interested in a house by it’s exterior. S Books Shopping You can’t judge a book….but you can judge a house! The books are all arranged to display their beautiful end papers. These are a wonderful gift for any time of year!īelow are a few images of the shop in London.
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With Titles like: Operation Heartbreak, How to Run Your Home Without Help, Few Eggs and No Oranges, It’s Hard To Be Hip Over Thirty, and The Wise Virgins it is hard to resist purchasing a few. Their best selling authors include: Winifred Watson (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) ,Dorothy Whipple, Marghanita Laski and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Subjects include, short stories, cookbooks, and memoir. The books are by female writers from the interwar years. The founder, Nicola Beauman picks these herself. Each of the 86 books has a different end paper. When you open them up you are in for a treat. The titles are printed on the sides in black letters in a white box. All books have the same pretty dove gray jackets. Persephone Books prints mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women. I find the smell of old books or libraries intoxicating.
I love poking around old bookstores and libraries hunting for books which have beautiful covers and interesting subject matter. You can go on ebay or to your local 1st editions bookstore and find many vintage books with beautiful covers. Borrowing a favorite book from a friend you can see what they have underlined, marked, and noted on each page or a well loved passage. All of my books have moved with me from home to home, making each new residence feel like I have lived there for years.
Books give a sense of history and comfort to a home. Piled high on cocktail tables, arranged in bookshelves, used as side tables they never fail to inspire me. “A house without books is like a room without windows.” ~Heinrich Mann
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