Archive for August 2014
if I owned a store it would look like this…
I discovered my new favorite shop, Scout while staying on Cape Cod last week. If I ever owned a store this is what it would look like. It is a beautiful collection of vintage items and accessories. Lots of wood, whites, paper and metals, my favorite combination. Not to mention all the striped bags that…
Read Morea really old house…
We took our last break of the summer last week and stayed with extended family at a home on Cape Cod. Seventeen people, nine of those people being children. We found a house that could fit all of us. It was a big space with a lot of history, built in 1766 for Rev. Nathan…
Read Moreeye candy {fabric wrapped furniture}
My latest design crush is fabric wrapped furniture. My favorites are the ones wrapped in linen or burlap and finished off with nailhead trim. The texture of the fabric can fit in with any room no matter what furniture you already have there. There are plenty of high end versions to look at. There are…
Read Moredrying out a flooded basement
I’ve done many before and after images on my blog. Never before have I showed one where the after looks worse than the before. Until today. Here are some before shots of my basement before the valve leak… and here it is now, mold and all… We hired ServPro to come in and clean up…
Read Moremy office storage solution…
While work begins on the flooded basement life goes on upstairs. Since I removed a kitchen cabinet or two you might be wondering where everything that was stored there finally went. In my dining room is a large buffet with storage on top as well as below. I was in a purging mood a while back and…
Read Morethat time when my basement flooded…
So I came home from a family vacation full of sand and fun times at the water to find my basement full of water. The same basement I finished just two years ago. Not good. We were away for two weeks and unpacking the car when I went down stairs to throw some laundry in…
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