“…Ed and Michele Sayres’s 1,100-square-foot creekfront home on five acres is anomalous in horsey, affluent Millbrook. The property feels secluded, but it’s on a side road a quarter mile outside the village, where Michele has an office on Franklin Avenue for her thriving interior design business, M. Sayres Design…”
“…A pool is more than a place to swim—whether the focus is sociability or exercise, relationships are built and strengthened by water. In this newly built Putnam County house, the pool forms the emotional center of the home, anchoring the overall design. When the owners of the sunny, four-bedroom, five-bath post-and-beam home, a retired psychiatrist originally from Norway and an educator from New York, imagined their dream retirement abode, they wanted a pool at the nucleus because they benefit physically and emotionally from swimming together an hour a day. But their pool-centric vision proved a conceptual and technical challenge. By the end of the home’s construction, they came to count their architect as a friend….”
“…Vinny Spinola, one of the shelter’s co-founders along with Tony Spoto, remarked to colleagues that he was worried about the shelter’s history as a breeding facility for laboratory mice. He joked that it needed a “good feng shui consultant” to clear the space’s negative energy.
That offhand remark reached the ears of ASPCA president Ed Sayres, whose wife, Michele, just happened to be an interior designer and a classically trained feng shui practitioner. She, in turn, thought that redesigning an animal shelter to achieve its maximum potential was just the sort of project that her branch of the Feng Shui Guild had been looking for…”
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“…Today the serving tray is a sought-after commodity. Not since the 1950s, when serving trays were an essential cocktail accoutrement, have people taken advantage of their practicality, function, and quiet style. “Serving trays are very trendy right now,” says Michele Sayres, interior designer and owner of Michele Sayres Design in Millbrook and New York City. “I think a lot of this has to do with ottomans and coffee tables…”
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“…Feng shui is based on the same theory as acupuncture: a balance of the five elements-water, earth, fire, wood, and metal. “It involves the flow of energy, called chi, in and out- side the environment,” says Michelle Sayres, a feng shui and real estate consultant in Greenbrae, California…”
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