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Christmas is a five-sense extravaganza at Cheryl Thomsen’s Bedford home. As soon as you walk through the door you are transported into a happy childhood memory infused with gingerbread men, colorful stockings, and the piney scent of Christmas. Even if it isn’t your memory, it is Thomsen’s and she wants to share the idyllic experience with you. “When people come in I want them to feel like they’re stepping into another world, another place, so for that day they can be living a little fantasy,” says Thomsen. By Amanda Bergen |
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For Rachel Volpone decorating her house for the holidays is an extension of her
approach to life. “I’m a maximalist,” declares Volpone. “More is more. That’s why I love working with interior designer Molly Hirsch. She understands scale, texture, and makes sense of the craziness and traditional that I like to think I embody.” By Alison Pratt |
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Just around the bend from the long-shuttered Barker Basket Shop on Barnegat Road, Chuck Griffith, a grandfather and retired copywriter, is busy in the kitchen of the 18th-century cottage he shares with his wife, Sharon. He’s soaking strips of cherry wood to bend and form into oval baskets and steaming maple chair posts in a tray he’s cobbled together from a copper rain gutter. by jennifer moore stahlkrantz |
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