When I was a kid watching "The Mary Tyler Moore" show every Saturday night, what I loved best was Mary's apartment. Even though on some level I knew it was just a set, I still adored the architectural details...the 'sunken' living room, the floor-to-ceiling Palladian window, the built-in bookshelves under the stepdown, the tiny kitchen with the pull-down Tiffany window. It was all so compact yet chic. And I wanted to live in someplace like that when I grew up. But the thing that caught my eye and that I loved the most? Mary's graphic "M" plaque on her wainscoted gallery wall.
There was something about that M that said this place was
hers, it was a interior design statement that spoke to me even as a child.
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| Mary Richards and her "M" plaque |
So it's no wonder that a million years later I'd recreate the same idea in my house. I've got my initials in two places, a "C" in the dining room, and an "RC" in the master bedroom. They are authentic old signage letters from who-knows-where, but they are vintage. I know that using letters like this has become very popular nowadays, some would even say passé, but I did it first so long ago and they harken back to such fond MTM memories that I'll never part with them.
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| The "C" in my dining room |
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| My initials in the bedroom |
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