{"id":9718,"date":"2022-05-27T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/?p=9718"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:17:24","slug":"home-comforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/home-comforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Comforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was mildly amused to read this story, of how Melissa Gilbert, once the kid TV star of\u00a0Little House on the Prairie<\/em>\u00a0has retreated with her current husband to an\u00a0old hunting cabin in the Catskills<\/a>, to live, as they say, the simple life. It certainly looks simple enough \u2013 a modest small house in the country, which she described as dilapidated and run down until she and the husband began renovating. While interesting that she pleads the joys of the simple life, away from Hollywood and still has been featured in several stories in the Daily Mail over the last few days, I do have to admit that pictures of the place and the interior do make a strong case for her current simple and modest lifestyle. The interiors look cozy, cluttered with vintage-looking and modest knickknacks which must mean something sentimental to Ms. Gilbert and husband. The furniture looks like the random odd bits that one can pick up at a country auction, inherit from family and friends, find on the curb, or buy at a good thrift store. It\u2019s not to my taste, which is a little more spare, and oriented towards Craftsman\/Shaker\/country cottage \u2013 but it\u2019s as far from the expensively designed\u00a0House Beautiful\/Architectural Digest<\/em>\u00a0kind of interior as can be imagined; the enormous spaces, sparely staged with furniture that looks to have never been used<\/a>, bookshelves with few or no books on them, sterile spaces of walls hung with expensive statement pieces selected by a set designer \u2013 as impersonal as a five-star luxury hotel suite. Ms. Gilbert\u2019s new digs actually look like a real home, where real people live \u2013 not a movie set, or a empty home made up to look good for quick sale in a booming real estate market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was mildly amused to read this story, of how Melissa Gilbert, once the kid TV star of\u00a0Little House on the Prairie\u00a0has retreated with her current husband to an\u00a0old hunting cabin in the Catskills, to live, as they say, the simple life. It certainly looks simple enough \u2013 a modest small house in the country, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic","category-home-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}