![]() ![]() After years of looking at and visiting buildings with me, she had absorbed an architectural ethos, which she combined with her own innate taste. Her strongly held views on domestic matters were often more practical, and more original, than mine. ![]() I was not one of those architects who imposed their own ideas on others-not that that would have been possible with Shirley. During our time together, my wife, Shirley, and I shared six homes. Like a chef cooking for her family, an architect who is building a home, buying a home, or even furnishing a home, inevitably brings a professional bias to the task. Some professional activities are separate from everyday life others, such as the culinary arts and architecture, intrude. The old stone house beside the Saint Lawrence River, with its steep roof and bell-cast eaves, the first of the homes that Shirley and I made together (All photos courtesy of the author) ![]()
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