Reader Comments on Homes and Gardens on Display from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:41:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/housetour I love home and garden tours. To go into a complete strangers house and look at their belongings and see how they live is just so interesting. I don't think anyone would ever be impressed by my decorating skills if my home was on a tour, but I think they would come away knowing that a happy family lives there. A family that really LIVES life! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:28:18 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/housetour Whit and I live in The Daniel Coombs House, c. 1856, a brick Italianate house with centered chimney and square, hipped roof. Our house was one of seven historic homes on the Autumn House Tour in Brookfield, Massachusetts, some time ago. Whit has run his business of painting, wallpapering, etc. of historic colonial homes for over 40 years now and he is quite the perfectionist. The tour was exciting (but exhausting as well) with all the people coming and going and asking questions about the period antiques and the tavern room. Our house is well-lived in and every piece of antique funiture, crock, basket, etc. is used each and every day in a functional way right down to the coffee bean grinder. We enjoy our home and wouldn't trade the creaks and crakes for anything else! Doris Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:26:42 +0100