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)r sailing started their romance. Now they have their own boat, handle it with skill.
of records — it's handsome and was made by two brothers who buy the wood of old barns and houses in process of being torn down so that, while the workmanship is new, the wood is aged and beautiful.
"Our little dining room is done in wood papering, the color of weathered pine. Our bedroom is in green, with white-painted woodwork and 'features' our old, cherry four-poster bed, canopied, with a peach muslin spread which is a copy of the spread in the bedroom of George Washington's home in Mt. Vernon.
"A mixture of Early American and traditional English is the way you'd describe our home,. I think.
Or, better still, since we did it ourselves without benefit of interior decorator, a mixture of us! We have some lovely antiques, which should make me," Jone added, with a sigh, "a better duster, waxer, oiler; in a word, a better housewife than I am."
In the small amount of leisure time she has, Jone "haunts" auction rooms and antique shops. On her terrace is a fabulous old table, the top of which was, once upon a time, a church window. In the bedroom, a spinning wheel, now doing duty as a lamp, gives a lovely light. Mounted in a shadowbox on the living room wall is a copy, so old its cover is tattered, of (Continued on page 88 )
Jone loves to combine the old and new: Note the table on their terrace, made from a dismantled church window — and the canopied four-poster with a coverlet copied from George Washington's home.