Secondhand things are the best buy today. You have such a good eye for finds from antiques stores and secondhand shops. You’ll always recycle the things you have because you love them. You might put a chair from this living room into your next guest bedroom.
Should you buy yards of very expensive fabric, and then not be able to fit them wherever you live next? No! When you’re young, put your money into the things you want to have the rest of your life. I want to thank you for something I read once where you said to focus on forever pieces-not drapes! I’m laughing because I really took that advice to heart-about a year ago, I moved into my first house, and I’m having so much fun with the furniture and art, but I still have $6 stick-on paper blinds.
They have just the right crust on them, and I keep them stocked and ready to go in my freezer. But here’s my secret: Costco has the best pigs in a blanket I’ve ever seen. I always have cheese straws and peanuts for snacks. I had plates for everybody, and I put the food and wine and drinks at several different places so that people could pick what they wanted and move around. We just had a little party for our friends’ fiftieth wedding anniversary. Just get people back together again soon. She also shared some advice to us all from her late friend Julia Reed: Don’t overthink hosting. We caught up with Williams to talk about her new documentary, Bunny Williams-Not a House but a Home, which was filmed by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art and will air on local PBS stations in April. Now I want to get up in the morning and let the dogs out, hear the birds, have my coffee, and have a sense of peace.” We couldn’t do that anymore, and I didn’t want to. “Come Sunday, we’d get in the car and go back to the city to work all week. “We had owned a house in the country for close to forty years and the most we’d ever stayed there was two weeks,” Williams says.
For five decades, Williams, who was raised near Charlottesville, Virginia, has traveled to projects all over the country, published beautiful coffee-table books, and, with her husband, John, hosted friends and family near-constantly. She’s talking, of course, about how the pandemic has shaped how she thinks about her time.
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