I hoard….
Lots of things…like pages from old magazines. Usually the whole magazine, but occasionally just a few pages.
Like this spread from the December 1996 issue of Country Living. (ignore the tears, sometimes I’m in a rush)
Pretty cool, am I right?
That’s why I’ve kept these magazine pages in a box for a few decades.
Not really diggin’ on the Victorian furniture, tulips, or quilts……but the red-painted floor, 48 star American flag, light-houses, collection of National Geographics, tramp art frames, that cowboy lamp with the red shade on the side of the bed, tin lunch-pails, school maps as window treatments, cowboy bed, and oodles of vintage Americana just make me dizzy. In a good way.
What a collection.
The cabin used to belong to designer Anthony Baratta. Google tells me that he’s still busy designing, but I couldn’t find any evidence that he still owns this Long Island cottage.
In fact, I couldn’t find any pictures of it online at all.
But luckily for all of us….I hoard.
Hey I have this magazine! It’s not hoarding its collecting! Perfectly acceptable to collect Country Living form years gone by, I have mine sorted by season on a book shelf in my summer house in the yard š
I think we’re two peas in a pod Shae!!!!
Love it all-thanks for sharing!
Glad I could Susie
Thank you! Love this article.
Couldn’t you just spend Christmas there?
I love browsing through my stash of old mags, they are so much better than what is published today.
Has the internet bumped them into classics?
Also have noticed that I like some designers’ earlier work more than their current designs. This post is an example, perhaps with a bit less clutter.
Hoard away guys.
I know what you mean Jean, I love this cabin way more than the homes he’s done lately…..
I finally took pictures of my torn out pages collection and then put in my pinterest acct bc tidiness became a must with our six sons. I love the plaids and bold yellow. I took your plaid sachets gifts and left them anonymously at each house on a local Christmas house tour as a thank you! So thank you for the inspiration. It only took me a year to share it. Happy hoardin/cherishing things that touch your hearts!
Awww Joanna, I’m so touched that you made those sachets…and how sweet that you left them. Glad that we could inspire you.
I guess I will have to print and then cut out the framed piece over the mantle and the glass bookcase, because that’s the only way I will ever get them! I do hoard magazines, usually Phoenix Home and Garden.
I’ll bet he was stashing all those great pieces for years just waiting until he had a cabin to put it all in……I had to donate almost 20 years of MArtha Stewart before I moved in here……Don’t worry, I have 5 years of new ones to add to the hoard.
I want to spend Christmas in that house!
Same here!!!!!m That’s whay I just had to scan them and share….
It’s beautiful and timeless….thanks for sharing this.
Glad you liked it too!!!!
Charming blast from the past; give me red tartan plaid and the American flag, forever!
Here! Here Amber!!!!!
Don’t cry!! Oh wait, did you mean “tears” as in “rips”? š Thanks for sharing! And count me as another one who has tons of old magazine pages (and sometimes the entire magazine).
I have more actual, complete, old magazines than I care to admit to in print.
That is spectacular!!! Love all that tartan plaid!!! So glad you shared this!
I love this! I too have an illness of “saving” magazines. I have never gotten rid of a single issue of Country Living and in fact purchase old issues of ones I come across that I don’t have. I don’t think I have this issue. How can it be! I am dashing upstairs NOW to look for it. I have them all categorized by month. I am a lover of all things tartan as well. I never realized how national geographic mags en mass could be so visually pleasing. I just had a chance to pick up some on one of my junking expeditions and passed it up… Kicking myself.!!! Such an inspiring spread thanks. I live in a victorian home built in 1900. Keeping it clean and in repair a constant challenge but it is magic at Christmas! Happy holidays !
Happy Holidays back at ya Laurie!!!