I’ve been tearing up the garden beds in both the front and back yards. I would like to edge them with a permanent structure. In perusing Pinterest I found ideas under the titles of the garden border, garden planter, and garden edging. Stone garden wall and brick garden wall also produced some lovely inspiration. Get ready for The Ugly Garden Contain Yourself. When we bought the house the beds had metal landscape edging combined with plastic brick edging. The Ugly Garden Contain ... View the Post
A Closer Look at the Kitchen Renovation Corian Countertops
Several of you have been waiting for this post since I first mentioned taking A Closer Look at the Kitchen Renovation Corian Countertops in the Storybook Cottage kitchen. You had questions! I hope this post will answer them all. A Closer Look at the Kitchen Renovation Corian Countertops First and foremost in my heart of hearts if this would have been my forever home I would have installed white marble countertops. But this is just our “for the next few years” home. So, we had to ... View the Post
2015 Summer Tour of Homes Storybook Cottage
Today I am honored to be participating in the 2015 Summer Tour of Homes Storybook Cottage hosted by the marvelous Marty of A Stroll Thru Life. If you are coming here for the first time from SG Style welcome! My name is Laura and I am a part-time interior designer, full-time wife, mom and current university Art History major. Our family made another house move and we are slowly settling into our home, Storybook Cottage. It is a 30-year-old fixer-upper currently being transformed room by ... View the Post
Perfecting the Lived in Look
Recent trends for a majority of design blogs are a look of perfection. Posts feature rooms in which not a chair, rug, or even a small cup out of place. Even though, this is not real life. Perhaps that is why I find myself gravitating more and more to lovely homes that are Perfecting the Lived in Look. Perfecting the Lived in Look I am sure many of you are familiar with the website One Kings Lane. Did you also know that they have a Style Blog? A post on designer Jeffrey Bilhuber’s home ... View the Post
The Converted Barn
No living room chairs. I’ve been promised that they will be finished this week but I am not holding my breath. Still, it would be nice since we have houseguests arriving on Friday. Instead, I bring you The Converted Barn that cousin Sweet T. sent me via realtor.com. In the subject line, she had typed “Freak Out”. Indeed. The Converted Barn There aren’t many homes that I think “I could move in just as is but this one….well, just see for yourself. Look at those floors! I have ... View the Post
Storybook Cottage A Truly Tiny Guest Room
Welcome to the Storybook Cottage A Truly Tiny Guest Room Wintermint. Storybook Cottage A Truly Tiny Guest Room Let’s start from the beginning. Back in October when we moved into our home this room, like the rest of the house, was yet another shade of brown. (Please, quit coveting the yellow and brown glass light shades! :) So I painted the walls a lovely shade of winter mint. Then the room became a dumping ground for everything that was not being used in other areas of the ... View the Post