Monday, May 30, 2011

Touring the Designer House

Last week my friends from the Lambertville Streetwalkers (a walking group, not the other sort of streetwalkers), drove to Doylestown, PA, for a tour of this year's designer house. The official details for the house tour can be found on the designer house web site: http://www.buckscountydesignerhouse.org/.

It pains me to report that yesterday was the last day of the tour, so you can't go on it, but if you like the house it can be yours for a few million dollars. It's quite nice inside, though we weren't allowed to take pictures anywhere but on the grounds outside. The house was originally an old stone farmhouse, now greatly enlarged and modernized. I thought I'd show you a few of the pictures that artist Pat Shamy took of the grounds.

Here we all are standing in a light rain, having tramped
 appreciatively through the beautifully decorated rooms 
(each done by a different designer) until 
we were surfeited with decor.
The barn. No horses there right now, but after you buy it you can buy some horses
and hire a stablehand for a few dollars more.
Much of the decor is color-keyed to the barn.
Charming views, everywhere you look.
A great place to find a dead body, no?
Maybe I'll set a mystery novel here.
Thanks to Pat Shamy for the pictures.

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