When you live in a home passed down from previous generations, deep-time design opportunities lurk around every corner
This image shows an heirloom spice rack made with mason jars in a kitchen in Allison Park, Pa. When you live in a multigenerational house, deep-time design opportunities lurk around every corner. Opportunities to blend past and present abound. ALLISON PARK, Pa.
When my parents left, they moved to a retirement community with some clothes, some furniture, some files, a television and little else. Behind they left 42 years of life’s possessions — things accumulated locally, things gathered during extensive international travels, things we were overjoyed they saved, things everyone agreed should have been thrown out.
— My wife’s increasing proclivity for building industrial-style furniture using stained lumber, metal piping and flanges created an increasingly unified look for the house. But more often than not, many of the items displayed on these spanking-new-but-vintage-looking shelves were carefully curated from my parents’ collection. Best of both worlds.
She is accommodating to the sometimes annoying fingers of the past when they reach into present-day discussions about, say, what color paint to use in the kitchen or what kind of light fixture is best for the upstairs hallway. I, in turn, have learned to be open to new things.
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