I am rewatching LA Law to this day. My favorite characters are Stuart and Ann, aka, Michael and Jill. I’m a big fan and of course love reading about them and seeing their home!
Everything about their home, life and career’s is wonderful and I wish them the best!
I hope they can reprise their roles again if and when LA Law returns.
A dream of mine as I age, would be that I’d love to meet them, but don’t think they know where Clovis, California is. Anyway it’s a dream!
Loved that they sourced Craigslist for vintage furniture! I did that also on Craigslist, eBay, and fb marketplace. Wonderful old maple pieces beautifully made, bought for pennies on the dollar. And they didn,t become part of a landfill! Everyone wins!
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We also made the New York-to-Easton move about a year ago. I can thoroughly appreciate the love of an antique home, such as the Eikenberry-Tucker home; ours was built in 1800. Easton, even for THIS NY transplant is truly a beautiful and magical spot that embraces its agrarian foundation. I hope they’re enjoying it as much as we are.
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First saw you in Michael Weller's Moonchildren--a wonderful play for its time with an extraordinary cast led by Alan Schneider.
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I don’t understand why this story about an avid cook and food author doesn’t have a photo of the actual kitchen, just the dining room table, a cook book and a knife close up! Strange.
@Bubbles So True !!! I want to see Michael's kitchen!!!
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Yep. The barn is a beauty.
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The house is gorgeous as is this couple, who appear not to age!
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Beautiful, charming home.
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That article was a balm for these fraught days ... thank you. So nice to read about intelligent, classy, happily married people in a beautiful home. Wishing the Tuckerberrys the best, in Connecticut and in the theater.
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I want to know more about her drumming now!
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What a nice slag-glass chandelier above the dining room table.
Yes, it does seem like a lovely house and place to live.
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Mice?
That pool does look wonderful.
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A lovely home and an article that needs about a dozen more photos. Random but sincere thought: that bass drum would sound much better if it had a pillow / blanket in there.
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Am I allowed to say, these days, "They look great, like they just walked off the LA Law set. Nice to see them again." (Love the house.)
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Since California property taxes are essentially frozen from the time you buy the house, I didn't understand the part about their Big Sur and Mill Valley properties being too expensive to maintain, unless they are talking about upkeep. I mean, there are literally people living in $10 million homes bought in 1979 that pay like $2,000 a year in taxes. Which is why California public schools and colleges, among other things, have gone way down hill since Prop 13 came into being in 1978.
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@Jonahh You are so wrong. Prop 13 allows the assessed value of the property to be increased by up to 2% per year with an overall limit of 1% of the assessed value. And it allows local districts to assess taxes approved by a 2/3 vote for schools and neighborhood improvements. As for your mythical $10 million home, I bought my house in 1994, it has an assessed value of $1.5 million, and I pay $21k in taxes per year, which increases every year even though my income is fixed.
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@Jonahh I don't know where you're getting your information about California property taxes, but you're wrong. They are not frozen. We bought our house in 1984 and were immediately taxed at more then 1%of the selling price, $1200 annually, because of additional local taxes. We're now paying $10,000 a year.
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@Jonahh They are not "frozen", but increases are strictly limited.
Our neighbors across the street (outside SF) include an couple in their 70's who have been there for 40+ years and, next to them, a young couple with two toddlers in a much smaller house. Yet the young couple pays 50% more in taxes.
Ignore the other commentators. NJ residents would kill to pay as little as they do.
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My uncle, Ralph, was Ms. Eikenberries mother's second husband. She was an extremely talented textile artist who spun her own yarn and then wove it on a beautiful loom.
I see elements of Laura's sense of style, and her love of trees, in Jill's home. It was lovely to see this update on their home.
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So glad I made this the first article I read today; a much more positive way to start the day. Lovely couple, lovely home.
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Yes, I've always liked Easton and Redding. And when I was growing up in an adjoining town they were regarded as somewhat tonier, where the richer relatives lived. Meanwhile I ended up living in a converted deer camp embedded in the forest in Vermont and that's pretty darned nice too.
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I recognize that knife! It's from M.O.R.A., a wonderful store near Les Halles. I found the store from an article in the Times. I bought several knives that look exactly like that one except I like to remove the oxidation.
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What a nice home. I can see that their wages for a television show was slightly more than minimum wage.
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Loved both of them on LA Law. Love even more that they've been together for over 45 years and have defied the Hollywood stereotype.
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The joy of country living cannot be understated. I have the CT River to one side, a state forest on another and farmland with stables on the a third side. Beats any multi million dollar city penthouse, for a fraction of the cost. I am confident they will continue to enjoy that home. That part of the state is quite nice. The barn looks great. Love the wood.
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@MD ...I believe the proper term would be "overstated" not 'understated' in this context. Cheers.
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Why not more photos! Very frustrating to read about a dining room 'find' and no photo to look at. It's about the house--put in photos of the house!
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@Sandra
Don't miss photos 5,6,7&8 in the slide show--all kitchen.
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@Sandra And no photos of the library, my favorite room in any house.
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@Sandra Did you check out the slide show? There is a dining table there.
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Tag / estate sales way to go in Fairfield County. Gloria and I too partially furnished our 100+ year old house with fabulous finds as well. Many friends in Easton. Welcome.
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