“I see music as fluid architecture,” legendary singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell told the New York Times in a 1991 interview. Debbe Daley saw it as an inspiration for interior architecture when she remodeled a room in her Portsmouth, New Hampshire home as a music studio for herself and her husband. The interior designer and author has been playing the flute since the fifth grade. Her husband is a multi-instrument musician. Playing Sunday morning jazz is part of their weekend ritual and performing with and for friends at home is part of their social life.
“A completed music room was always on my husband’s list to have in our home,” Daley shared. “He was set up in different rooms and then as we remodeled, he went to the unfinished basement.” When they began the music room project last year, installing a drain in the waterside home’s new downstairs space to ensure there was no flooding was a top priority. Unlike Mitchell, Daley wanted her music architecture to be fluid-intolerant.
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