Hi All. Sorry that I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been finishing a project and traveling, so it’s been challenging to get myself to sit down at the computer.

I was in Marblehead, Massachusetts for the 4th of July and would not have wanted to have been anywhere else on earth. There’s something so perfect about 4th of July in New England; sailing with good friends, eating ice cream, eating seafood, watching a parade and shopping the wonderful shops filled with “New Englandy” things…and I say this with all of the home sick and warm fuzzy feelings in my heart…this is my neck of the woods…having grown up in Western Massachusetts and lived in Boston for years before making the move to Los Angeles 11 years ago.

I always forget just how beautiful this part of the country is and how it always feels that I’m going home even after all of these years…was the water always that clean and the air so fresh…sky so blue.

Now to my inspiration…I left the nautical, “I just stepped off the boat” look behind years ago for a more contemporary feel in the interiors that I do…guess what?…I’m back to my roots. What an easy, breezy, clear colored, laid back feel with a substantial and patina laden pedigreed touch will do for a place! I left the Wenge wood, Design show, Hip “Lifestyle” look behind awhile ago and now I know why…there is no authenticity or history to it…and anyone can have it or more to the point…”Do” it…no, no…”Buy”
it.

I still tell my Friends Gail and Alan that they are the luckiest people in the world to live in a place that, as Bette Midler put when she was describing Provincetown to an LA audience. “ It looks like Universals’ backlot, but people actually live there”.

(But, as I remind myself…”Wintah…she’s just around the cawnah”)

Hint: You want your place to look like it just sort of happened, over a period of years and over a period of many garage sales, finds, antique stores and yes, trips to Marblehead…not like you went to the local “hip” lifestyle store and bought it on Tuesday. If that’s what you are planning to do. At least mix it up and buy it all over the course of a month because each time that you return, you will be in a different mood, have a fresh set of eyes or just saw a great idea somewhere that you would like to interpret as your own.

Cheers,

Mark

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