Martha Stewart Aesthetic

In 1971, Martha and her husband Andy paid $46,750 for a farmhouse in Westport, Connecticut that had no central heating, faulty electricity, and two acres …

The table is set an hour before anyone arrives. Beeswax tapers stand at attention in silver holders. Linen napkins are folded, not fanned. A copper …

A room can be filled with beautiful objects and still feel wrong. The furniture faces the wrong wall. The rug is too small. The windows …

A room that works begins with the wall behind it. Martha paints every building on her Bedford farm the same color, a warm gray she …

The daffodil border at Bedford stretches from the Summer House past the stable and down to the Linden Allee. Thousands of bulbs planted every autumn …

A Bedford Gray wall with nothing on it but a single framed botanical print and a slant of afternoon light. The paint is warm. The …

Martha wrote an entire book called “Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life.” Her philosophy fits in one sentence: everything has a place, …

A window pushed open for the first time since October lets in air that smells like wet earth and something green. On the sill, a …

Steam curls off the surface of a clawfoot tub in a room lined with white marble subway tile. A beeswax candle burns on the tub …

A bowl of blue-green eggs sits on a kitchen counter in morning light. The colour shifts from pale aqua to soft teal depending on which …