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There are some records that seem to belong to a particular time. Then there are records that somehow escape it. Nick Drake’s Pink Moon is one of those records. Released in...

There is a particular satisfaction that comes from standing in a room and knowing that almost nothing in it was made this decade. It isn't pride exactly. It's closer to...

Of everything in an old house, silver was the one thing held to a standard. A chair could be worn through to the horsehair and nobody said much about it....

There's a particular hour, early, before the house has been asked to do anything. The coffee is made. Nobody needs you yet. You sit at the kitchen table and look...

A room decorated entirely in one period is easy to admire and hard to believe. Everything agrees with everything else, and the whole thing arrives at you settled, complete, closed....

"Soulful" has become a filter you apply to a room, next to "cozy" and "eclectic" — a look, achievable in one order. But soul in a home isn't an aesthetic....

Route 30 leaves Wayne and doesn't hurry. It runs through Exton, Downingtown, Coatesville, out past Gap and Intercourse and Leacock, into Lancaster, and further still to Adamstown, where entire buildings...

Thrift has an image problem — the tightwad counting change. But being cheap and being careful aren't the same thing. One protects the self; the other refuses waste out of...

A home isn't assembled by matching. It's assembled by the pull a thing has on you before you know why.

Somewhere there is a kitchen where this teapot poured a thousand Sunday mornings. We don't know whose. That's the part that stays with us — not the maker's mark or...