Shutters for a Pantry Door

In my unconventional kitchen, I made a pantry from a pair of shutters. I also made the kitchen cabinet doors out of two smaller shutters. I had purchased 10 pair of yummy blue grey shutters from a great store called Seventh Heaven in the city. ( Savannah) I had used them on several different projects over several months and had two pair left that were two different sizes. I was working on my boring and weird new house so I decided I would try something a little different....
I was plesantly surprised by the finished product. The smaller cabinets doors are on the previous post..SORRY

Art class.. The Floor at Fish Camp Cottage

How great is this. One of my favorite cottages thru the eyes of the oh-so-talented students of Anna's art class. I LOVE It!!!!! ( Fish Camp Cottage photo of the kitichen and the yellow and white tile floor is on my website. )

Update on The Teacher!

Here is Anna's class room and a few photos I found on our camera. With not much budget , Anna created wonderful energy with her giant paint brushes right outside of her classroom.

This is the beginning of Anna Speir's (my assistant) project her with 5th graders in Art. ( september 11th blog)This is an example of her prototype for the class. "Looks like a Jane Coslick Cottage" with it's ZEBRA shutters!

She has created a project on two Georgia Artist! Beverly Buchanan(Athen's Georgia) and me "Jane Coslick" cottages and Shacks! This is just an update about the teacher and her students. I believe in art and I can tell Anna is as great an art teacher as she is a photographer and designer.

Stars Of The Sea Shutter Headboard

Here is a shutter headboard made the shutters that are sold on my online store. What a glorious way to wake up. I made them into a headboard for "99 steps to the beach". http://www.janecoslickcottagecollection.com/ (The euro shams are also sold there.)
The different shutters are from some of the cottages I have designed , and are the inspiration for these types of headboards. . People are always asking for things that are featured in the articles from different magazines . It is a slow process but I have amazing and talented people helping me work on this. Sometimes, I feel like I am living on "Tybee Time", the laid back island slow-lane lifestyle!

Tybee Island is a wonderful place to live but there is one problem...... If you have to go to work "off island" ...and don't leave by 10:00 am.....You can't leave !!! The warm sunshine on nice morning like today.........like a giant magnet that draws you to take a walk on the beach.

Back in a bit.........................

Home for the other pair of great shutters

It is amazing how much the addition of the shutters brought the space to life. Some windows are constructed in a way there is no trim around the window. The window is recessed and sheet rock meets the window. By adding the shutters we framed the window to add some interest.

My latest Headboard Project

Found these shutters on a trip to Scott's. Fell in love because of the color, the details and the great old hardware. Funny thing, it is as if I had "ordered" them. My client stopped by as I was unloading them and said "For Me?" (sound familiar...shopping in Jane's truck is a favorite pastime of ALL of my clients).


They did work perfectly with the bed linens, and the great blanket at the foot of the bed . There were 3 pairs of the shutters and they would have gone great in any room of the clients beach house. Luckily, they were in need of a fun headboard and had waited several years for the "perfect " one.
We used two pair for the queen size bed and the other two we hung on either side of her denim sofa on her " Seaweed"" colored walls. http://www.janecoslickcottagecollection.com/ The color, along with "Minnow" ,the wall color in this photo, can be seen . Click Jane's Colors.

My very own headboard !!

I gave up that great piece (Oct 6th post)for the client because it was "The Perfect Thing" for the space. I was sad but it was so wonderful for the room.
As luck would have it, my "Perfect Thing" did showed up and I Love love love it!!! It was the back of the seat on the old carousel at Pawleys Island,South Carolina. I bought it because I loved the patina and actually I did not know what I was going to do with it. The woman I bought it from had it 30 years and she never knew what to do with it either.

I say....

If all else fails......make it a headboard!