The Cottage Journal

A Season of Sentiment

“I’ve never really been attracted to new things,” says Kris Allison, proprietor of K. Gray Interiors and Gardens and owner of a country cottage that she’s filled to the brim with secondhand treasures. Having been largely raised by her grandmother and great-aunt, Kris says, “I just grew up with that appreciation of loving older things.”

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