As I’m sharing decorating books and pictures that inspire me as well as some of the things I’ve purchased for our future home (which is still just a daydream), I’m often asked about the decorating direction for our next home.  The simple answer is, that I won’t fully know until we select the house.  I believe in working with a house, really listening to it, and melding my vision with its best features.  I don’t like to forcefully impose a style on a house that is completely at odds with what it was originally designed to be.  The longer answer, which I will expand on in this post, is that I am feeling drawn to a more traditional style.  I’m especially smitten with architecture and decor that showcases federal style.  As with all architectural and decorating styles, the federal style can encompass a variety of features and aesthetics and it

When I first started working on the book , I knew I wanted to shoot some local Rochester homes.  My friend Cheri’s home was a no-brainer.  But I was hoping for at least one more house that I could photograph.  I ended up finding that house in an unexpected way and I thought I would share this curated, traditional home tour with you. I had been on the hunt for a settee, small sofa, or daybed to fit in the alcove in our master bedroom for a couple of years when I finally tripped across a wonderful antique daybed on Facebook Marketplace… You can read more about the daybed HERE and the cushion I made for it HERE. I messaged the seller right away and set up a time to pick it up later that day. As we drove through the neighborhood, following the GPS to the seller’s house, I