This summer we focused on finishing bedroom No. 2 at the beach house. This bedroom is the smallest of the three bedrooms, measuring 8 x 11 feet . As with all the rooms, there are no architectural details, just one small window and a closet. Thankfully, there are hardwood floors! While the room is
This is a quick and easy project when your entry needs a little spruce up! I made one of these striped doormats a few years ago using spray paint which you can read about here. This time, I used leftover exterior paint and a brush and actually found it to work better. I started with
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Hallways are often overlooked spaces for decorating but in a small house such as ours, I want to make every inch count! Here’s how I took our hallway from a mere passageway to the bedrooms, to a styled space that hints at the colors found in the bedrooms and bathroom: BEFORE Accent Wall + Mirror
If you follow me on Instagram, you might have caught my instastories on the accent wall in our hallway I’ve been working on. At our Jersey shore house, we have a narrow hallway leading to the bedrooms. It’s too narrow for a gallery of pictures on the side walls — you could never get
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At the beach house, everyone enters through the back door. The area just inside the door becomes a messy drop zone for shoes, packages, jackets and beach gear. To bring some organization to this space, we added a Pottery Barn coat rack last year, as well as a diy rack for fishing poles. Recently we
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We have lived in our current home for three years now and never really found a use for the sunroom. Our builder suggested we add it for resale value so we went with his advice. It lies off the kitchen and dining room and has ended up being a repository for spare chairs
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Today I am sharing a few quick fall updates I did in the beach house living room. Seasonal decorating doesn’t have to mean removing every accessory and pillow and starting from scratch. It really can be as simple as layering on some seasonal touches to achieve a cozy, warm feel for fall. At the beach
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If you are new to the blog, we’ve been working on a small 1970s Jersey shore home, renovating room by room as time and money permit. If you’d like to see older posts on this reno check out these: Kitchen Family Room Bathroom Master Bedroom Exterior Most recently we gave the living room a little TLC
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Hey guys. I have really been enjoying all the fall home tours on Instagram and on the decorating blogs. As for me, though, it’s been a slow process to get my head in the fall mood. I find that I am gravitating away from seasonal decorating. Rather I enjoy changing things up a bit here
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We’ve been chipping away at the master bedroom at the beach house. I have a few more details to work on but they may be a long time coming … sometimes it takes me months to find the things I have in mind at the right price! But it’s 90% done so here we go!
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