Cozy Finds From Our Home to Yours ⟶
Last summer, we saw a post on Facebook from one of our favorite places for antiques. They were selling old industrial rolling ladders. As a child watching Beauty and the Beast, seeing Belle roll around a book store on a ladder became the focus of a dream: To one day own a personal home library…
Last Friday night my husband and I took a huge creative and professional leap. We’re growing! We signed on the dotted line for a little lakeside cottage that has seen better days. We plan to love her back to life and restore (or build back) some of its vintage charm. We’ve always had a heart…
Last weekend, I was perusing Instagram when I came across an image that stopped me in my scroll. The creator of @hayes.cottage captured a roaring fire within her wood-burning stove, which sat inside her fireplace. It was just so cozy and inviting. It made me long for the ability to have a fire in our…
Life has given me plenty of opportunities to wait. I grew up in a large family. I waited 13 years for my husband to work a job that allowed him to come home to us every night. I waited two years to learn I was pregnant with my oldest child. Then I waited another two…
The kitchen makeover is well underway at the cottage, and today I’m sharing our process for preparing and priming the cabinets for paint. Where appropriate, I’ll share specific products I used to accomplish the tasks. In choosing a white paint, I was aware that preparing the cabinets would be the most important part of the…
Once upon a time, I imagine my kitchen was cutting edge. It’s all-wood cabinets, retro yellow, marbled formica, and above-the-sink wood valance tell me that she was a pretty little thing in the mid-1960s. But the time has come to love my little cottage kitchen into the 21st Century. It’s dark and dated (and not…