As the oldest granddaughter of a mason, part of the reason I fell in love with Lady Beekman was all of its 1950s brick...
I often feel overwhelmed and paralyzed when thinking about my home projects in giant categories: “the exterior”, “the landscape”, or “the basement”. One of my favorite things about Continuous Improvement is the tenet of decomposing ...
If you have noticed, so far, very little has been said over here about our Dining Room. It is, as the kids say these days, not “Instagram-ready”.
I am guessing if you came back to check out this post, you need nourishment beyond coffee, wine and chocolate. We do too — sometimes. Ha ha ha.
It is difficult not to start each post relating where we are at this stage of 2020 Lady Beekman, with where we started our journey with her back in 2015...
Picture this: it is raining or snowing (New Jersey has a healthy amount of snow accumulation in the Winter). You have a car full of groceries. You have a months-old baby in his carseat; a ...
Sometimes I get impatient with how much we need to wait for what in my mind are "very much needed" restorations in our home.
Even though we don’t have an open-concept house, we were intentional during our renovation to give the home a much needed flow.
Our floor plan was modern, our kitchen was rustic modern, and our children were safe and happy in their bedrooms. Yet, it was mid 2016, a whole year after we had purchased our home, and ...
Who recalls what we were originally working on when we coined the term Lady Beekman? That frustrating day in late June 2015, when all of our efforts seemed in vain, we were working on our ...
One of the things I have always been mindful of in my design aesthetic (besides high functionality!), is defining a vision, a tone, a mood for my spaces...
We have always dreamed of having a home centered in our kitchen, where our family seems to spend most of its time...
As we previously mentioned, we would have loved doing our massive renovation in phases...
Three months after we moved in, we embarked on a five-month journey of renovating our home with a local construction company...
Within the first month we were living chez Lady Beekman, it became abundantly clear we needed to start with the basic elements: Water, Air, Fire, and Earth...
Lady Beekman was a term born of the personification of our home that many years later influenced the name of my company...
We fell in love with our second home, affectionately named ‘Lady Beekman’ by us, over Easter weekend 2015...