Bed & Breakfasts speak to myriad layers of design.
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Their needs, specific. They must be inviting, tidy, comfortable, safe, feed all your senses, and perform through all seasons.
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B&B's are on a budget of money & time.
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Perfect, just like home.
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Glen Ella, below, has been welcoming guests for a century.
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History, color, repetition, comfort, and welcome at Glen Ella's front porch, below.
One of the first rules of Garden Design, copy.
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Not your style, above? Doesn't matter, the design rules apply.
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For 30+ years I've had the good fortune of having a family place nearby. Better fortune, I've not been the one to buy the family place & pay upkeep ! Glen Ella is still beside a dirt road and its Smoky Mountain views not harmed by gentrification. Throughout the years I've never had a bad meal here and know to make reservations.
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Now, whenever I go to Glen Ella a walk alone in the garden & meadows is deeply anticipated. Enjoying the present, yet remembering other days/evenings/meals here with deeply loved friends, already gone.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
2 comments:
Wide porch...view not harmed by gentrification. The 1st easy, the 2nd not so much. I need to splurge once I get caught up and paid, and stay a a couple nights at 1 of 2 places I like in the pastoral Hondo Valley...and copy a few things!
That looks like an inviting place to enjoy a view. Good tip.
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