American antique: it was the imperfections of an old house that sold a couple on buying it. Their goal then was to fill it with period funishings.(Brief article)

Records for the house date to 1830, and the homeowners sought appropriate period furnishings--or, when necessary, reproductions. Circa 1800 Windsor chairs surround a c. 1839 farm table with a rare cherry top. An 1830 corner cupboard anchors a reproduction floor-cloth. SEE SHOPPING GUIDE FOR DETAILS.

Even though Lucia Ginesin likes every style from "Biedermeier to Bauhaus," she is happy to live in a house without "a single straight line in it." Of the c. 1830 dwelling in New York's Hudson Valley that Lucia shares with her husband, Brad, and their three-year-old ...

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