The dining room in the lake house above is one of my favorites in Lauren Leiss’s book Habitat, but when it was published in the Washingtonian last month it took my breath away all over again. Every time I look at it, …

This week I found myself shifting things around in the entry seen above. We moved that large print seen above the bench into the reading room. And if you remember from the video tour we did last week, I had …

We received an old comment on this post this week. I hadn’t read that post since I wrote it so many years ago and as I reread it a few days ago, I couldn’t help but tear up being on …

I love this photo of Faye and Charly so much. They truly adore each other. And, yes, Charly is a very good sport. But, besides Greta and Faye, she is more of an adult dog. Screaming, running kids freaks her out which …

I took the day on Wednesday to get out of the house and go on a hike with my girlfriends. We left early in the morning, before the sun came up, and got home after the kids were in bed. We …