When the Mercers bought their third John’s Island home, the dining room was very dark. To brighten it, the heavy drapes were replaced by plantation shutters and the black walls by a taupe-and-coral wallpaper.
Nancy and Dick Mercer bought their first home in Vero Beach because they were tired of the rain. “We had arrived here on a sailboat to visit friends in 1986,” Nancy recalls. “We decided to stay the winter, but ’86 was a rainy year and we got weary of sitting on the boat watching the clouds roll in. Almost before we knew it, we had bought a small studio apartment at John’s Island.”
The Mercers had arrived from Pittsburgh, where Nancy owned a fashion boutique and Dick was a newly retired vice president of sales for the Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. For 30 years, they had lived in a 4,000-square-foot house in the city, and their tiny, 570-square-foot apartment in Vero could almost have fitted into one of their Pittsburgh home’s larger rooms.
Read the entire article in the September 1998 issue
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