Bar None

A bar in one's home doesn't have to be a designated space just for libations and fun, you can set a bar up anywhere that people gather.  I have bars set up in many of the locations at Lowfields as well as our home in Raleigh.    It also doesn't have to be on a table or sidebar, any good wide shelf with a little height makes a great bar!    Add some trays and fun glassware and of course, your favorite makings for the perfect beverage and you are ready to go.

Cheers!  

In the office at Lowfields

Ready for guests at the Bunkhouse! 

Bunkhouse bar

The bar at our home in Raleigh - I love trays! 

On a chest in the office

On a shelf in the dining room at Lowfields - I am addicted to old glassware. 

Winter whites

We are in the bleak Midwinter but as the weather gets worse my thoughts turn to cosiness…. and winter whites

Is there anything better

Our first snow in Raleigh.. and yeah the garden pavilion is finished

Cleaning out closets in the guest room and loving all the pillows made out of wool and angora sweaters

A detail from a table

Vintage mother of pearl buttons and lace

Faux ivory boxes

Him Floyd is color coordinated

Rabbit fur muffs from the flea market

Stay warm

Portrait

I have been collecting portraits for years and as a result I have them everywhere …..

This is one I have had for years, it is very old and has been repaired by my good friend who is a genius at restoration

My only full length portrait- love them

My bedroom in Raleigh

A somber gentleman- in my bathroom!

This is half of a pair I found in Charlottesville

The frames are amazing

And the faces are hauntingly beautiful

This lovely Regency lady looks great against my shocking yellow wall

Christmas Decorating

We have continued to decorate in between a visit to be inspired in NYC...

Evergreens and nandina berries- simple

My yard sale boars head

The Bunk house welcomes Patrick and Fred

Mantle decorations by Terry

Ready for a Cocktail Party

Details details….



Merry Christmas

Christmas Forest

We are so lucky at the farm to be able to gather our greenery from our woods and trees

During Thanksgiving Robert and Luis cut down trees

So did Smartest Farmer and Filaberto

Terry made this enchanted forrest

At night

With lots of twig balls

Getting twiggy with it

Christmas Past

A long long time ago in another house   ------ we really got ready for Christmas and a photo shoot…. How I put all those ornaments on two  fluffy 10 foot trees I don't know.  Country Living 2004 December

We even made the cover

This was a great shoot with my favorite editor and stylist

The famous Santapana is on the back shelf

I still do a toy tree on my kitchen island

My famous wreath that everyone has copied-( me too)

Room with a View

Our friend Joe took a great picture through the new pool house this weekend… the sky was so blue! This post also introduces the new building we have been working on, the pool house, even though it is now closed for the winter.

Through the pool house to the cows

Even though its winter it is pretty

Looking west

Deborah,  aka The Intrepid Hunter took these during her weekend visit!

Front view

The start of Christmas decorating….

The deer chandelier  was a killer find by my friend Wendy and the lattice was made by our wonderful builder Ted

Give Thanks

 We are all so lucky to be surrounded by family and friends during this Thanksgiving. Let us be thankful...

A gift- so thoughtful

French dishes and rosemary

The chickens contributed too… Happy Thanksgiving

Holiday Table

This year seems very rushed, we are decorating for Thanksgiving and Christmas simultaneously !!! Tables first...

Wheat sheafs from Marshalls , pussywillow , branches and feathers on foyer table

Apples, pumpkins and tiny flea market turkeys

some pumpkins are real and some are fake