Christmas in Connecticut: A Ridgefield home gets decked for the holidays
The Doman family decorates virtually every room in their Ridgefield home — nooks and crannies included —for the holiday season. Here, silver, white, and black ...
Home for the Holidays
Fancy that!
Layering placemats and chargers is a stylish way to showcase your dinnerware, according to Roland Wolfe, creative director of Hoagland’s in Greenwich. The stor...
Festive Home brings sparkle to the holiday season
The theme of this year’s Ridgefield Guild of Artists’ Festive Home is “All that Glitters!” Items are available at the holiday showcase and marketplace, running...
A tree with all the trimmings
People of all ages can enjoy vintage-style ornaments, such as these available from Reynolds Farms Nursery in Norwalk.
With the holidays in full swing, it’s ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
The kitchen gets as much decorating attention as any other room; assorted-shaped red ornaments hang from the valance rod over the sink, while small greenery, c...
Ridgefield Guild of Artists holds 13th annual Festive Home
Designer Rachel Belden, of Rachel Belden Interior Design, Ridgefield. — Mary Harold photos
Artist Allyson Monson and designer Molly Hirsch, left to right, ...
Home sweet home
Suddenly, hidden in the trees, they saw a strange house made of candy, cookies, chocolate, and everything delicious. “This is a gingerbread house,” cried Gretel...
Open your door to holiday sparkle
“Your front door should be your holiday welcome greeting to friends, family and neighbors. Something for all to enjoy, including you,” says Jennifer Coleman, o...
An Emersonian holiday: Decorating with nature
If you’re looking for beautiful decorations that transcend the common and artificial, then take a walk in the woods, or drive to the sea. Visit nature and stoc...
Christmas in Vermont
Chef Rhys Lewis, of the Woodstock Inn and Resort in Woodstock, Vt.
There’s nothing more fun than spending a few days at the Woodstock Inn and Resort in Wood...
Ridgefield’s Lounsbury House plans Tree Festival
Photos from a previous Lounsbury House Tree Festival: a Cat in the Hat inspired tree that was decorated by a local organization is ready to be sold.
Lounsbu...
Hanukkah — The Jewish festival of lights
Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of lights. For eight nights, we light the Hanukkiah, a nine-branched candelabra that is used to celebrate the victory ...
House of holiday style
Some of the figurines, ceramic gingerbread structures and assorted feather trees that occupy the dining room window seat of Margaret Schwartz's Ridgefield home...
Pattern your holiday with plaid
A plaid fabric-covered headboard provides a beautiful backdrop to coordinating pillows.—Roth Fabric Showroom photo
A red plaid blanket scarf that my daughte...
Celebrate ‘Independents Day’ this holiday season
Forest creature-inspired gifts from At Home in the Heights
Since Thanksgiving Day (and eve, in many cases), holiday shoppers have been making a mad rush to ...
What Hanukah means to me
It was a long time ago, but I can still picture my grandmothers standing at their stoves, frying potato latkes for Hanukah. The eight-day holiday gave us pl...