Home Tour: Meghan O'Dea

I will admit it, I love peeking into other people's homes. What people find comforting, interesting and lovely is usually reflected in their homes and that interests me. My friend, neighbor, first-time home owner, Fredonia regular and digital storyteller at The Lamp Post Group, Meghan O'Dea, recently purchased her home in Highland Park. I had the chance to get a tour today and sit down with her and her kitty, Greta, to chat. 

Meghan, where's your favorite spot to spend time in your new home?

The chaise reading corner of my studio.

What are you currently reading?

"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

 





Why Highland Park?
It's a real neighborhood, a "borrow a cup of sugar" type place.

If you had an extra hour in the day, how would you spend it?
Cooking with Turkish and Moroccan flavors. A while ago I went on a trip to Turkey, best eating ever.

 

What do you love most about your job?
I get to tell people's stories, I spend all day being a part of the good things that are happening in Chattanooga.

If you could go anywhere right now, where would you go and why?
The high desert of Arizona, it is so different from where I grew up here in Tennessee. I feel a strong compulsion to go and experience the desert versus the lushness of this area.

If you could have dinner with any four people, living or deceased, who would it be and why?
Alice Paul, suffragette who went on hunger strike to push through voting rights amendment
Virginia Woolf, author
Sylvia Plath, author
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Art Nouveau artist
Because these are so many different bad-ass women!

Thanks, Meghan for sharing a bit about yourself and your home with us, it's quite lovely! XO