My love affair with classic tile, bead board, and marble continues! The cape cod’s upper bath is finally finished. Like 100% finished. Okay, maybe 95%. In all reality, we made it about 75% of the way six months ago and then lost our bathroom-finishing steam. But this week . . . this week that upper bath made […]
Buyers remember a laundry room with a chandelier!
A couple selling their home just asked my advice for how to get their home ready for the real estate market. A whole rambling of advice came to mind: “fresh, neutral paint” and “depersonalize” and “finish those pesky lingering projects” and “declutter, declutter, declutter.” But most sellers, including the ones asking the question, had heard all that […]
A Story & the Stone Cottage Bath Reveal!
I grew up renovating houses with my parents. I can remember at five years old running to get tools for my dad — I call him Papa — as he built our family home. I’m a girl who knows the difference between a socket wrench, an allen wrench, and a pipe wrench. A miter saw, a hack […]
An Attic Turned Master Retreat – Before & After
THROWBACK THURSDAY Before we had ever heard of a blog, a DSLR camera, or a hastag (they were still called “pound” signs back then), we were designing and renovating. So we are excited to celebrate “Throwback Thursday Renovations” here on the blog, and to take a trip each Thursday down renovation memory lane. We will be looking […]
A Colonial Renovation – The Upper Apartment Reveal
THROWBACK THURSDAY Before we had ever heard of a blog, a DSLR camera, or a hastag (they were still called “pound” signs back then), we were designing and renovating. So we are excited to kick off “Throwback Thursday Renovations” here on the blog, and to take a trip each Thursday down renovation memory lane. We will […]
The Farmhouse Project – Kitchen Reveal
THROWBACK THURSDAY Before we’d ever heard of a blog, a DSLR camera, or a hastag (they were still called “pound” signs back then), we were designing and renovating. So we are excited to kick off “Renovation Throwback Thursdays” here on the blog, and to take a trip each Thursday down renovation memory lane. We’ll be looking […]
Gray & Linen: The Forest Project Living Room Reveal
It is our final day on the Forest Project. And it has been a lot of sunshine, heirloom furniture, doggy kisses, shades of gray, throw pillows, and laughs. What a blast I’ve had working alongside these clients, and the queen of the house – Ms. Gracie, the dog. I definitely took her into account when tackling […]
The Forest Project Dining Room REVEAL!
The Forest Project dining room has absolutely stolen my heart!!! The sultry gray. The streaming sunlight. The heirloom furniture. The elegant tufting. The nailhead details. The chandelier! But before I delve into all the yummy details of the AFTER, there’s a bit to know of the BEFORE… At some point, the Forest project homeowners had become […]
An Old House. A Tiny Closet. A Master Closet Renovation. – THE REVEAL!
While we adore the character of older homes, they are ridiculously slight on closet space. So last July, just days before we moved into the cape cod, we knocked down a few awkward master bedroom walls in order to capture some additional closet space. But it took, well, about 8 months before we actually got to building the new closet. Because in the […]
An Outdoor Living Reveal – And a Cute Dog
Oh, I am so behind, because there is this lovely deck reveal to show you! We got all tied up in One Room Challenge reveals and Never-Ending Basement Renovations and a new Classic Stone Cottage Master Bath renovation I cannot wait to tell you about . . . yet there was this absolutely lovely deck reveal from last week that I’m […]
