3:10Diana Pierce, a reporter and news anchor at KARE 11 TV, has lived in her Plymouth home since 1991. Despite its soft contemporary exterior, Pierce has decorated the much-remodeled house in a traditional style.
Pierce and her husband, Dennis Babcock, recently completed a remodel that turned four smaller bedrooms on the upper level into three larger ones. Soon, the roof and gutters will be replaced. (Casualties of the recent hailstorms.) Daughter Chelsea had one request for her senior year in high school this fall: a reprieve from remodeling until she graduates.
Q How many TVs does a newscaster have in her home?
A When you're around TVs all day long, I don't need to be around them much at home. We have two, including a 52-inch big-screen that we use mostly to watch movies.
Q Tell us how you hide your big TV.
A The front of the two pocket doors that hide the TV look like they're an extension of the library wall. We sawed off book spines with a band saw and had them glued to the pocket doors. We got the idea from the Charles Dickens house in England, which camouflaged a door with book spines.
Q Speaking of England, many of your furnishings would look quite at home in an English manor. What gives?
A My husband and I love England. Our honeymoon was in the Tower House in Bath. Dennis [a theater producer] collects letters and photographs of English and French actors or writers such as Charles Dickens, Edmund Kean, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Alastair Sim and Sarah Bernhardt.
