For Sandra Morgan and Claggett Wilson Read, the cottage they affectionately refer to as Villa Verde was just what they had been looking for. The green strie wallpaper provides the perfect background for Sandra’s penchant for English pine furniture, and the eye-catching entrance hutch is a perfect example.
If you had told Sandra Morgan and Claggett Wilson Read 10 years ago that one day they would own a home in Florida, they would have told you that you were crazy. As far as the life partners were concerned, the Sunshine State held little appeal; besides which, both were far too busy to seriously consider having a pied-a-terre other than the home they currently enjoyed in Connecticut.
Enter fate in the form of family and a cottage too charming to resist.
“Claggett’s mother had been coming to Vero Beach for years, and his niece had purchased a place here,” Sandra smiles, recalling what she thought would be a quick, one-time visit. “The two of them kept saying you really need to come down and see what’s here. Also, Claggett had done some design work on an oceanside villa for a client and he was somewhat familiar with the area, so we said all right, let’s give it a try and listen to everyone, and that would be it.”
Arranging their schedules to fit in the visit wasn’t easy. As an ASID designer, Sandra spends her days working with clients and architects, while Claggett, now retired, gathers information about his great uncle Claggett Wilson, one of America’s first “Modernist” painters.
Read the entire article in the September 2008 issue
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