After living in our home for a year, we’ve learned what works and doesn’t work for our family in the dated galley style kitchen. This home was built in the 1940s and went through a significant remodel in the 1990s. Fast forward 30 years to the real estate listing pictures of the kitchen when we
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I love a banquette. It gives me all the cozy feels — like sipping coffee in the corner booth of an old diner and having an intimate conversation. In our last home, we added a banquette not just for the coziness factor but primarily to maximize kitchen and storage space. This house was a mere
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It’s easy to overlook hallways because they serve largely as a pass through to other rooms. But they can be elevated to a focal point and be pressed into service for some additional storage. Today I’m sharing my most recent hallway refresh at the beach house! Here’s the original before photo: In the first hallway
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I finally put the last touches on the third bedroom at the beach house. Read on for what we hacked, diy’d, and thrifted and the two items we splurged on! This bedroom, like all of the bedrooms at the beach house, is small at 10.5 x 11 feet. It also lacks architectural detail — just
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Recently, I added house numbers to an old oar that we positioned near the back door of our coastal home. Around here, UPS and Fedex deliver from an alley that runs behind the houses so I wanted to make it a little easier for them to find us! I’ve used this easy method many times
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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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