Until a couple of decades ago — maybe more — there was another building on our property, a small cottage where Pete stored his tools and where various things that had once been of use to us were put out of the way until some decision was made about what to do with them.
Friends' addresses and phone numbers, correspondence with the Internal Revenue Service, messages from the Maine landlord who had rented her a summer cottage -- all were stored safely on her work hard drive.
He does, however, accept a steady flow of custom work, including large-scale projects like garden cottages, institutional furnishings and store interiors; he even created a three-story building for a flower show in Holland, which is now known as the Piet Hein Eek House.
Despite the statistics DIY home projects are still embraced -- and a cottage industry of super stores, lifestyle magazines, reality TV, and ongoing misperception, ("With a little patience and the right tools, I can do anything!") is supported.
(The cottage has a separate bike store).
The groom, 35, is the owner of Spirit Town Wine & Liquors, a store in Valley Cottage, N.Y.
On February 14, the firm opens its seventh UK store in Swiss Cottage, north London (020-7644 0920, ligne-roset.co.uk).
For many years she was Chairman of Books at both the LVIS Fair in East Hampton (where she turned her small guest cottage into a temporary book store) and, with her dear friend, Eleanor Rawlings, at the All Saints Church Strawberry Festival in Great Neck.
While on the gangway, the woman mentioned a rental car, and wondered if the beach cottage was far from a grocery store.
Eminent domain is controversial — it engenders notorious court battles, which drag on for years and always seem to pit a grandmother clinging to her cottage against a prospective big-box store — so Gluckstern saves it for later in the conversation.
