Oh, I am such a tease! I know you all must be thinking “Just show us the darn kitchen already!!!” So here is Storybook Cottage The Range Area. Storybook Cottage The Range Area It’s coming. Just a few more projects to wrap up. Here’s an area that’s done for now. This was my original inspiration. You have to go visit Joan to see her entire kitchen. The brick that begins here…  …wraps all the way around to the kitchen. It was kind of a black hole. So I lightened things up ... View the Post

It has been awhile since I viewed a home where each and every room made me smile. Recently a home in Baton Rouge, Louisianna, built by architect Bobby McAlpine with interior designs by Ray Booth, was featured in Architectural Digest and boy did I grin. The house is done in the Cape Dutch style which was prevalent in old Amsterdam and its surrounding villages. The house took over five years to plan and build and it’s easy to see why. Oh this tub! Did you also notice all the ... View the Post

Today our furniture is set to arrive to Storybook Cottage. There is still quite of bit of work to be done, but as in most houses we will continue to chip away at our “to do” list while actually living in the home. I know it will take me a week or two to unpack all of the boxes. Our neighbors have decorated their homes for fall in such a festive manner. I can’t wait to share all their darling porches with you. That is as soon as I find the battery charger for my camera. :) So while I take a ... View the Post

Right when you walk into our new home you are greeted with a large brick fireplace. In fact it is one of the largest fireplaces that I have ever seen. I am going to tell you right now that Mr. Décor LOVES this fireplace. I am on the fence about it. Actually, I have been trying my best to ignore it. The room is SO dark that for me the first issue has been to paint the walls of the room. That will be happening later this week. Bye bye boring, cave like brown. I imagine that once there is ... View the Post

In the upstairs of the Storybook Cottage I am planning on creating very happy and colorful rooms. This includes a small bathroom that has no natural light sources. I would love to try my hand at hanging wallpaper. My first choice would be “Amrapali – Peony” by Designers Guild Or lovely “Dutch Painters” by Pip Studio To balance out all the floral I would hang some eclectic portraiture. Queen Elizabeth by Andy Warhol, 1985 I think some brass hardware would be perfect. Kingston ... View the Post