A few weeks ago, I toured the home of Mary Carol Garrity during her summer open house.
Mary Carol Garrity is the owner of the fabulous Nell Hill’s and Garrity’s stores in Atchison, Kansas as well as the newly opened Nell Hill’s at Briarcliff in Kansas City.
She has also written several books on interior decorating as well [...]
Our first stop will be the urban slums.
Today, the world’s population numbers almost seven billion souls. Close to one billion of these souls live in urban slums.
The number of folks living in urban shanty towns is projected to triple in under fifty years.
So that will be three billion people living in cardboard shacks on [...]
Perched on the eastern banks of the wide Missourah, Atchison, Kansas was once a thriving river port and then the original terminus for the “Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” railroad. As a result the town experienced more than it’s fair share of boom times and fairly bursts at the seams with gorgeous mansions from [...]
I am an architecture junkie.
I love houses and well designed buildings.
I love old derelict homes on abandoned highways sagging from neglect and misuse and I always want to hitch them to my car, drag them home and fix them up again.
I love new buildings too… the way they smell… how everything is still so clean… [...]
One of my favorite interior design subjects is the play of light. Which as far as I know, is not an interior design subject, at least I have never seen a show on HGTV that mentioned the play of light. Then again, I don’t have cable and rarely get to watch HGTV, but [...]