Timeworn wicker chairs of diverse shapes, colors, periods
and condition provide ample seating for a living room wall
of generations of summer reading. Colorful and whimsical
Traditional Home James china are arrayed throughout the
dining room.
Adding to the ambiance in the living room are a pair of
chintz chaise-longue, complemented by a cabinet full of
small objects and china, a doll house, assorted prints, a
variegated assemblage of rugs, sconces, table and floor
lamps, muted colors and wallpapers throughout the house.
An array of Hyland floral fabrics serve as a pendulum to
the ultimate beauty of the house: the garden.
Central to the mystique of Grey Gardens, the garden is
located between the house and the sandy path over the
dunes leading toward the sea. It comprises a series of
spaces intermittently defined by walls, hedges, trees and
flowerbeds. A terrace, a pergola, thatched cottage, arched
garden gates, plaques, a memorial stone and fences complete
the garden���s architecture. An earthbound stone memorial to
a Beale pet, Spot, rests snugly beside the thatched cottage.
Intermittently, the garden has been tended to by members
of the Buckley clan of florists and landscape designers.
At the height of summer, perennial flowers form high, wild
beds favoring those species that, in the aggregate, convey a
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