Bed Sheets – Thoughts on Simple Luxury

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Selecting a bed can be complicated.

Which mattress? Box spring? Headboard? Frame?

Comforter?  Bedcover?  Coverlet?

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There are seemingly endless possibilities when considering how to cover one’s bed. As seen in this image of my bed in Brooklyn Heights, I prefer a simple bed cover (or comforter) with an antique textile folded at the end of the bed for interest and decoration, and a couple of decorative pillows. As the season’s change; or when the mood strikes me; or when a new antique textile enters my home I like to switch things up…

However, when it comes to sheets for my bed I am pretty basic – I like WHITE.

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VISIBILITY in the 21st Century

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Being a man of a certain age I like to see others ‘swimming in the water’ before I jump in. I am a pretty ‘late adopter’, I admit it.

Out of curiosity I joined Facebook in 2008, but it wasn’t until the Fall of 2013 that I began to really focus my efforts and see what greater participation in the socali media landscape might bring.

Today I have:

Over 20,000 ‘LIKE’s‘ on Facebook,

Over 14,000 images pinned on Pinterest

Over 4,000 connections on LinkedIn

And almost 10,000 visitors to my blog ‘In Pursuit of Design Alchemy’

and in the last 18 months had almost 11,000 visitors to GISSLER.com 

What has come of all this connectivity?

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In My Backyard: Glorious Food Shopping In Litchfield County

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“Good fences make good neighbors”

– Mending Wall, Robert Frost

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While this saying has been integrated into the lexicon of contemporary culture, no one has addressed the question that logically follows: What then do FANTASTIC fences make?

For me, the answer is just over the hill from my still-pretty-new-very-old-house in Litchfield County at Maple Bank Farm.  And they are GREAT neighbors!

One of the oldest family-run-farms in the United States, Maple Bank has maintained a delightful farmstand since the 19th century, offering organic produce, dairy, meat and fresh baked goods. And it is less than two minutes away from my house…

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