Scratch Magazine online wonders how real writers live. Certainly they don’t have houses like the celebrity writers whose tastefully decorated homes are often featured in glossy magazines or interior design blogs. In fact, the editors of Scratch figured 99.99999% of writers don’t really have rooms with a Skybrary, built-in walnut bookcases, or a view of the ocean to gaze at while they plot their next novel.
So they called for readers to “help revolutionize the literary real-estate profile genre by sending us glamour shots of the way writersreally live. Because glowing descriptions of home decor replete with excessive adjective usage aren’t just for ridiculously famous writers anymore.”
And my house was featured! This photo was taking while we were renovating the kitchen of our 1914 home. Below that is the text.
Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s home decor secret: you can’t go wrong with white. The writer’s use of a white plastic tablecloth and softly draped bedsheets in the adjoining living and dining rooms makes a strong visual statement that enhances the casual nouveau-demolition ambiance she’s cultivated.
If you’re interested in seeing more, the article can be read free on Scratch HERE. All you need to do is make an account, and you can see stunning writer’s spaces, including an homage to the roots of the big-box school of design, a minimal skater-chic decor complete with digital art by Lora Zombie, a picture window facing an adjacent housing unit that proves a fount of inspiration for the landscape-obsessed writer, and more.