A Bedford Farmhouse From the 1700s, Hand-Painted Room by Room by the Artist Who Lives There

In Bedford, New York, an eighteenth-century farmhouse sits among trees that have been allowed to grow undisturbed for a very long time. The artist Happy Menocal has done the interiors of her family's house herself. Painted scenes run up the walls from baseboard to ceiling, and the fabrics are her own designs. The light fixtures are the detail a visitor tends to look up at twice: the chandeliers are built from the thin foil pans usually bought for a single casserole and thrown away. In a house that predates the republic, an artist has turned a supermarket throwaway into something meant to hang overhead for years, and that pairing is the point. It is the kind of Westchester County house that matters for its hand, not its square footage. Every surface shows the work of one person, and that person also lives there.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.