Personal Space

Jana DeGeorge is shown in this photo.
Jana DeGeorge is shown in this photo.

Jana DeGeorge

Where I live: In North Little Rock's Lakewood neighborhood close to the Old Mill on Lake No. 3.

Occupation: Director of marketing, Verizon Arena

My favorite space is: My living room.

Why? I love to relax -- especially after a busy week of concerts -- while lying on the couch and watching the Hallmark Channel and HGTV on TV. (If it is a rainy, cold day, that's a bonus.)

If I could make one change to improve this space, I would: Have Chip and Joanna Gaines with HGTV's home improvement show Fixer Upper come in and restore the old character of this house. It's the simple things and the old things about this house that I love. It makes me think of my Grandma and Grandpa Anderson.

There is a small niche in the hallway where a phone and phone book would have originally been placed back in the 1950s. Since I don't have a landline phone in my house anymore, I instead use this spot to put my late grandfather's old wooden jewelry box on the shelf (that my grandmother gave me) along with a photograph taken on a snowy winter's day of the barn my grandfather and my uncle built in 1969 on my grandparents' farm in Dexter, Mo. It's the simple things in life such as those keepsakes that mean so much to me and make me happy.

-- Linda S. Haymes

HomeStyle on 01/16/2016

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