Another Special Cottage (The After)

 

I restored the cottage and painted the interior walls white. It had the original hardware and great interior details. The pocket windows on the left side of the door had been covered up during what I like to call a "remuddle" and to my surprise, there they were, just waiting to be opened. I painted it happy beach colors and added glass to the top 2 panels of the front door to bring in additional light.
I doubled the size of the cottage by adding a large screen porch that could be additional living space if ever needed.
It was photographed by the amazing Richard Leo Johnson and featured in the May/June 2007 of the gone-but-not-forgotten COTTAGE LIVING Magazine.

Another Very Special Cottage (The Before)

 

Here is a before (the after will post later) of a very special cottage on Tybee Island that I bought and restored in 2005. I walked by it for years and it reminds me of the current project. (It's too cold to paint so I will share some before and after pics of what Cottage Living magazine called "The White House" (because of the interiors ).

Pick a color

 

Here are the colors of the Cottage Collections..soon to be out on the on line store.. (Seems like it is taking so long. There was so much to do...to launch it....but it IS coming very soon,

Right now it is time to pick a color for the interiors walls and ceilings and the exterior shutters. window boxes,and the hanging bed on the porch of the cottage project. The clients love reds and blues and yellows......and ofcourse White.. (thank goodness) White makes a tiny space feel so much larger and more open.
Any thoughts?
Hint .. the roof is red and so is the old out buildings roof.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

 

I think THIS is a beautiful site.. it will ONE day have a picket fence with an arbor, window boxes, red operable exterior shutters,a hanging bed on the screen porch, , a gazebo, a patio of old bricks with LOTS of pots of flowers and a few Back River chairs. ....for all those who think this looks like a big fat MESS.

future living room