Hardships

We already knew that 232 West 15th Street, the townhouse with the pool in the living room, was probably Chelsea's strangest abode. But we didn't know just how hard it was for owner Evelyn McMurray Van-Zeller to live there. She opens up to the Journal about the travails of owning a house where the pool gets in the way of efforts to hang up the home's collection of art and medieval weaponry. On the plus side, if you fall off the ladder while hanging decorations, you just end up going for a swim. [WSJ; previously]