Just a touch of Summer has been making it’s way into our little cottage. One of my favorite things to do when the weather’s nice is having a meal outdoors, so we have been enjoying a little dining al fresco.
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One easy and inexpensive way to create flow in your home is to use the same color palette throughout. I have been neglecting our home office, well, I guess it’s been for a couple of years now. I finally got around to coordinating our office colors with the rest of our cottage. Whether it’s blues and greens or whites and neutrals, using similar colors from room to room will be pleasing to the eye and help create a nice flow […]
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Today I spent the day cleaning like crazy and getting the house back in order after a long relaxing weekend. Ahh … it was a lovely weekend indeed. Just what I needed to get myself in gear for a project or two.
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It’s just paint, right? If I had a dollar for every time those words fell out of my mouth I would be one Etsy shopping lady! I’ve been considering painting the dining room table and the china cabinet, the cabinet possibly the robin’s egg blue color of the candlestick pictured. So I guess you can consider this a before picture, unless I chicken out. Robin’s egg blue is one of those colors I’ve always oohed and aahed over, I’m glad […]
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What’s that they say about a woman being able to change her mind on a whim as often and whenever she wants? It’s her prerogative — I think. How many times does she get to switch things up before the innocent indecisive behavior starts to look a little coo coo? Well for my sake I hope it’s at least three or four! Shall I go through the colors of the dining and living room hopefully for the last time, picking […]
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Don’t laugh! The armoire that I painted gray a couple weeks ago is now showing off a soft shade of sage green. What can I say? It happens! It takes me forever to make up my mind and I often drag decisions out for as long as I absolutely can. After months with no sofa, I picked out our family room sofa under a threat from my hubby “either pick out a sofa in 15 minutes or I’ll pick one […]
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Happy Friday! Alot has been going down at cottage fix the past couple of weeks, some good, some bad. We sprung a leak in our unfinished basement and water sprayed and spewed everywhere, and of course it was bright and early Monday morning, bad. The basement got pretty wet before I happened to hear the water gushing out, ugg! On the bright side, it was fixed in a jiffy. I finished all of my fall planting and flower potting — […]
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That’s right… the living room is finally completely painted! Whoo Hooo!! This one was a doozy. As much as I love our tall ceilings, about halfway through this paint job I found myself telling those ceilings where they could go! You get the gist. Yes, this is one of those rare occasions I am actually glad I don’t have a large great room with cathedral ceilings. Can anyone say “painter?” So now I can’t turn my head all the way […]
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