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When Robin Goldsand moved into her new home in Peekskill she wanted it to look special. She'd loved a mural in her previous house and made up her mind to create theme rooms using the same technique in the new home.
Step into Robin's dining room and you'll find yourself in Tuscany as you look through an archway over vineyards and rolling hills. Down in the basement, you can relax at the bar by a beach. The music room, where Robin's boyfriend Donald Singer plays the piano while Robin sings, has a waterfall rushing down through the woods.
Robin's unusual murals are a combination of wallpaper and hand painted touches by artist, Reggy Kipperman. "She was the art director at the camp I attended when I was a kid," says Robin. "We met again 30 years later when she was refinancing her house," Robin says.
Robin, who has worked in the real estate business for 40 years, runs the RG Agency, a title insurance company, with her uncle, Joe Goldsand. Her Peekskill office is in the old Hat Factory which was a thriving local business from 1895 to 1923, employing several hundred men and women from Hungary and Poland. The factory moved to Danbury, Conn. in 1923 following strikes and labor disagreements. Today, the Hat Factory in Peekskill has been turned into offices and artists' studios.
Back in Robin's home, the last stop is a trip to the attic, which has a "his and hers" theme. The dolls' houses and castles Robin has collected decorate one end of the attic. Donald's cowboy memorabilia is at the other. "My boyfriend thinks he's Wyatt Earp," Robin says with a laugh. The couple has even been to Tombstone, Ariz. to watch actors re-enact the shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Robin hasn't quite finished embellishing her home. She recently met a local tile artist whose studio is in the Hat Factory, near Robin's office. "I'm thinking of doing a kitchen backsplash using the Tuscany theme," she says.
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