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Seasons Change

Fall for these festive tabletop ideas to set a chic Columbus Day party design.

Effortless And Eye-catching

Fall is the time to plant bulbs that reward us with beautiful flowers next spring and summer. Nurseries and garden centers offer the familiar daffodils, narcissus, crocuses, tulips and lilies now. These classic garden flowers are favorites, but there are many less well-known but equally beautiful bulbous flowers you can plant now for effortless, eye-catching color in next year’s landscape.

Showcase Trends – Beach Chic BBQ

Hosting an end of summer soirée in the sand is a favorite Hamptons tradition. Add some style with these key pieces.

Heavenly Hellebores

Summer is in the rearview mirror, and all too soon autumn will be winding down. Winter waits in the wings. For those of us who live here year-round, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could have plants in bloom in the winter? That winter miracle is entirely possible…even easy to attain.

The Mod Squad

Size doesn’t matter, at least not if Christopher Burch is correct. Tory’s ex and the entrepreneur behind her fashion line and highly ambitious but now defunct retail chain, C. Wonder, is betting on little houses. You might think that the Hamptons, with their ego-driven mammoth mansions, would be the last place on earth to showcase a tiny, prefab (horrors!) abode.

Amagansett Dream Home

An Amagansett electrical contractor designed the house of his dreams. No one would ever guess that the main parts came from a factory.

Versatile Vines

Vines are seldom the stars of the garden or landscape, but they play important supporting roles in many successful landscapes. Vines enhance the focal points and features of the garden, and in the right location at the right time of year can have their chance to shine, too.

Staged Art

“You can judge the quality of a house by the quality of its art,” so said Rick Friedman, the head of Art Hamptons during his latest art fair in July. And many builders, brokers and interior designers have discovered that staging houses with art helps their properties sell.

Pembrooke Fine Landscapes

One of the Hamptons’ hidden treasures is Pembrooke Fine Landscapes, a boutique landscape design/build company that for ten years has worked with select clients. Pembrooke’s founding partner, Bill D’Agata, is as talented as he is meticulous, overseeing the smallest detail.

Hampton House Must-Haves

It used to be that a media room was de rigueur in the upscale Hamptons residence. Not so any longer. Ditto for wine cellars. While awfully nice (especially for oenophiles), they’re a bit passé. Gyms are still the norm but yoga rooms are much more now. Homeowners on the South Fork are nothing if not trendy.