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The cheerful kitchen has an abundance of natural light and a sink placed underneath corner windows. The blue and white porcelain on the wall are pieces saved from the collection of 3,200 pieces Shaw had before Katrina. “I just grabbed a few pieces on the way out as we evacuated,” she recalls.
Pizzetta points to a large oval platter that he says he carried all over Ireland on a trip there. “We rented a car to drive around the country and it was a very small car,” he said. “She bought that platter in the first town we came to and I held it and carried it the rest of the way.”
On the day we visited, lacy dragonflies were floating merrily on the chandelier above the kitchen’s tin-topped island. The other counter tops are covered with marble.
Shaw and Pizzetta did make a minor change in the house’s floor plan by encompassing a small bedroom to enlarge the master bath. Here too China rules with a bamboo ladder that holds towels and an artful high back chair. A Chinese motif of flowers and blue birds were painted in the sink. But the Coast is also represented with the leaded glass windows that were found on a Biloxi trash pile after Katrina. Shaw says it came from a house that was destroyed on Point Cadet.
The master bedroom is an inviting mix of cultures with an English armoire, drapes made of crewel fabric and salvaged Asian wooden pieces over the bed. >>
The blue and white porcelain platters on the wall are all that remains
of Shaw’s 3,200 piece collection
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