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 […]

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 […]

     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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As promised, this post contains our full source list and budget breakdown for the beach house bathroom reno. We strive to get the biggest bang for our buck which means a whole lot of DIY-ing and thrifting.  Although this house will eventually be up for sale, […]

I love tassel garlands.  They are popping up all over the place from Target to Walmart!  But if you are looking for a certain color scheme or particular length, making your own is easy.  Most of the online tutorials I found call for using tissue […]

This post has been a long time coming, mostly because I don’t like to rush into buying things when I am doing a room.  Settling for something just to get the room done, ultimately ends with regret.   So, finally I have “found” the finishing […]