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IT ONLY TOOK FIVE YEARS to get there, but the great room at my place on the East End of Long Island is finally livable. The final phase of its transformation this spring: a bout of quickie deco...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/latest-on-hamptons-reno-my-go-to-great-room/

THE ROLLER COASTER RIDE IS OVER. I’m officially in contract to sell my East Hampton, N.Y. cottage, after a long winter of offers, negotiations, anticipation and disappointments. Closing will be...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/last-suppers/

A MONTH INTO MY OWNERSHIP of a mid-20th century house needing much TLC on the East End of Long Island, a reader emails to say: “I’m loving your blog posts about your beach house…it is looki...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/hamptons-reno-one-month-in/

I’M CONVINCED EAST HAMPTON IS THE BEST, bar none, in at least one important department: yard sales. In these arty precincts, it’s not unusual for yard sales to be art directed like something ...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/happy-yard-sale-days-are-here-again/

THE 2011 YARD SALE SEASON is gasping its last. I went to a dozen sales this morning and, unlike the fruitful pickings of spring and summer, November sales are less than the sum of their parts. Th...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/yard-sale-swan-song/

UPDATE: Jordy P., fan of Jersey Shore yard sales, is the winner of the Texaco map – congrats, Jordy! To enter casaCARA’s vintage map giveaway (I’m giving away a 1930s Texaco map of New York...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/yard-sale-booty-another-map-giveaway/

THE 4th OF JULY found me on Shelter Island, chillin’ in 100 degree heat at my friend Debre’s extraordinary Carpenter Gothic farmhouse. Somewhere between the Jamesport Vineyards sauvignon blan...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/how-i-spent-my-independence-day/

IT’S GOOD TO KNOW eBAY HASN’T KILLED IT OFF ENTIRELY. I’m talking about junking — the time-honored act of rising early and heading out to flea markets and yard sales to find old, cheap, s...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/a-junking-we-will-go/

WHAT A SATURDAY I had. Just about perfect in every way. Color is peaking in my own backyard, above. Eric the Tree Man is almost done taking down the big dying oak in front, below. That, plus some...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/my-wonderful-beautiful-very-good-not-bad-day/

FOR FIVE MONTHS, I’ve been scouring local yard sales and thrift shops for something that would serve as a pantry/additional storage in my Springs, Long Island, cottage kitchen. I was thinking m...

https://casacara.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/yard-sale-triumph/