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Article: ALL AGLOW BETSY STEAD'S SUBTLE DECOR CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2000
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You won't find any poinsettias at this Christmas party. No
strings of bright lights. No red ribbon or reindeer. No Christmas
tree, either, for that matter.
No, what Betsy Stead strives for is more the essence of Christmas
than the trappings. "It's not Christmas music or red bows or the
symbols of Christmas," she says. "It's the tasteful decor of a
home."
And what a home. Betsy and her husband, Dick Stead, live in a
renovated five-car garage in Peaches Point, a section of Marblehead
that enjoys not only ocean views but conservation land and woods.
The Steads converted the approximately 2,000-square-foot building
into a home in 1970. It had been built in 1917 by Brookline architect
Nelson ...