Greenbook: A Local Guide to Chesapeake Living - Issue 8 | Page 38

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LIFESTYLE

Hammett
&Clagett:
Sally Hammett
& Hilly ClagettHoyle

I am utterly bored of my home décor.

I am tired of looking at the same old furniture I wasn’t thrilled
to buy in the first place, purchases that occurred more years ago
than I care to count. Children, dogs and large men have soiled
my upholstery, scratched my tables and stained my floorboards.
My area rugs have been sprinkled with glitter and one time
were dyed by homemade soap tinted with food coloring courtesy
of a six-year-old budding scientist. I am forced to hold onto
my husband’s grandmother’s lamps circa 1975. A large and
expensive stained glass window that I purchased on a whim in a
dusty off-the-beaten path antique store and that once fell over
in an earthquake (when was that, four years ago already? Five?)
sits over my mantel, hairline cracks be damned.
Not all is lost...
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he bones of my home are beautiful, loaded with potential. But
I have neither time nor money
to make my house the well-decorated abode I imagine. In fact, until a
recent chance encounter with Sally
Hammett, I had resigned myself to
dreaming via Pinterest and Houzz.
My future home seemed more a vision board than a real possibility. 
Sally is one half of the recently
formed Hammett & Clagett. Her
partner is Hilly Clagett Hoyle, born
in Upper Marlborough and an Annapolitan for more than twenty years. It
seems only natural that these entrepreneurial women would form a company together. 
Hilly previously owned Annapolis Resale Furniture and Finds, a
storefront and consultancy located in
the Design District off West Street in
Annapolis. Hilly and her mother/coowner, Brad Clagett, shopped estate
sales, antique stores and consignment shops to source a unique inven-