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Decisions Made Easy in this Connecticut Home
While many couples shop together, it’s not often that one spouse buys a house without the other having seen it. Such was the case, though, with Paul and Maureen Williamson. While he was traveling in Japan on business, she sent him texts and images of a six-bedroom house she liked in New Canaan, Connecticut. From what he could see while pinching the photos to fuller size, he liked the house, too. So, in his temporary absence, he gave her the okay to call the agent and say “yes” to the purchase. “By that point, we’d seen 40 houses all over Westchester and Fairfield County,” says Maureen Williamson, “and because my husband knew he could rely on me to make the right decision, we made it together, then and there, by text, thousands of miles apart from each other.”
Once the house sale was complete and the couple along with their two children had moved in, another husband-wife team, Mara Miller and Jesse Carrier—partners of Carrier and Company Interiors—were commissioned to design the interiors. “We felt immediately comfortable with the project and the client,” recalls Miller. “The only thing that was just a little unnerving was that her husband was off on a business trip. That’s usually a recipe for disaster—when one spouse isn’t there and buying decisions are taking place—but that proved to not be a problem at all.”
