Teacher Appreciation

Teacher appreciation door poster for a teacher that LOVES owls.

the perfect beach house

 White-painted wood plank walls, clean-lined mirrored cabinet, shells, cowhide rug and a crystal ship chandelier. 

The contrasting trim on the chair and sofa is perfection.

Love this Seaside, Florida beach house. I've never been able to find any digial pictures of it.... Thus the horrible five-year-old scanned copies.
Interior design by Mary Clark and Jessica Hawkins.  Architecture by Scott Merrill. I think it is from Veranda.

craigslist love

 If I had $130 to spare, an extra living room and a sunny day for a ferry ride to Bainbridge Island...

I'd buy this Italian brass and marble coffee table

Not exactly the same, but similar idea. Anna Kohler's apartment via Renovation Style

1st Dibs

demo pics

 I found some photos from 2006, before we moved in, but the original cabinets are already gone. We took everything out and replaced the pipes with copper and relocated the stove and fridge to the kitchen side at the same time.

This is a picture of the dining side demo in 2010. The stove and refrigerator had been moved from the back wall in 2006.

more before

More before pictures. Maybe I should have cleaned up first.

No, that's not a pantry behind the chalkboard door. The entire space was taken up by a huge, loud furnace.

kitchen before

This is our kitchen"before." We don't actually have any real before pictures because we had to demo it while I was in the hospital post c-section. The goal was to gain space to the right of the oven, and to do this we had to remove the furnace and old chimney which are hidden in the closet behind the chalkboard door. Originally there was no dishwasher, and the fridge and oven were on the dining side of the kitchen.
The fridge and oven were where the mirror is. It was really awkward, not to mention there was no counter at all on that wall, just appliances.