Grey gardens house

The new owners of Grey Gardens have begun renovating the legendary property in East Hampton. Here's a look at the work they're doing.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful mansion built in the Hamptons called Grey Gardens. Grey Gardens got its name from the cement garden walls, the color of the dunes and the sea mist. Grey Gardens would become notorious for its eccentric mother and daughter inhabitants, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, after a series of twists and turns, brought them cult status and notoriety. A reverse story of riches to rags with celebrity relatives always makes for a great tale. A14 room shingle style…

The original carriage house of the Grey Gardens estate in East Hampton recently went on the market, one month after the main house sold for $15.5 million. Here's a look at the property.

Grey Gardens in East Hampton, famous from a 1975 documentary, is for sale with an asking price of $17.995 million (down $2 million from the original price).

Alec Baldwin, Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn, and others discuss their adventures in restoring historic homes

Tag along for a visit with Liz Lange who lived last summer at the iconic Grey Gardens in East Hampton.

Candy colored porcelain doorknobs from France. Oh. My. These beauties were spotted on an Instagram post by a woman who mostly sells amazing antique garden furniture and ornaments. She is also from Massachusetts, and I am constantly amazed at her incredible inventory. I ooh and ahhh over the furniture, but when she posted these special hand painted and gilded knobs, I knew I just had to have them! Laurie of Plain and Elegant Antiques is someone to follow if you, like me, are into garden…

Ben Bradlee, who was editor of the Washington Post when the newspaper's exposure of Watergate led to the downfall of President Nixon, died yesterday at age 93. He and wife Sally Quinn, also a...

The history of hoarding, from Grey Gardens to the DSM-V.

When I saw these images in the New York Times my mind immediately drew parallels to Dickens’s Great Expectations– from the once-grand mansion in decay to the fascinating & eccentric…