99% Ready.....................

www.isleofyo.com is the website for this great yogurt store. Here are a few more finishing touches to the yummy yogurt store..the benches and the little awnings over the benches...party lights

the old window was suppose to be blocked out from the wall and not painted (to remain rusty crusty)

benches are very comfortable

decisions decisions decisions  on the candy he wants....or that his mom will allow him to have

I love the coffee bar and the message board... it needs  some fun knobs 

testing the yogurt machines

will be adding some turquoise picket fence sections to create a patio feeling in a shopping center

STILL waiting on the bar stools....and a few more little things but all and all it is a great place!!!!!
I had to taste every flavor.... love my job!!!!!!!

My latest project...yum yum !!!!

My latest project is so much fun I just had to share it .It isn't complete but I love how it is coming along. I was hired to design a neighborhood yogurt store (in my old neighborhood Isle of Hope).

The client fell in love with 4 my colors and with the vct flooring that I use in many of my cottages. We did a cottage feeling mixed with the retro ice cream parlor lighting and furniture.We added tin awnings over  turquoise benches and old windows with cottage star fish and crab  shutters . It feels friendly and relaxing and the yogurt is absolutely Yummy!  I will take final photos to share with you once the retro swivel bar sools are on place at the counter.
www.janecoslickcottagecollection.com for colors and shutters.

3 of the 4 from the Cottage Collection colors

will be on the wall

will hang by the old window (looks into the office)
the turquoise benches are under the window with the shutters.

my color PORCH CEILING BLUE which she also dearly loves...... We put inside of the "Hutch" where the  candy for sale will be displayed.

the benches have backs and are attaced to the wall

Survived the move ......and moving on.......

First......
I want  to thank you for all your kind comments on my last post!! That was such a great help. The new owner loves the cottage..she loves it as much as I do... AND she has made friends with Big Grey. I am so thrilled.


For now, I am renting a beach house  from  one of my great clients. I needed some time "to ponder" before I  begin my new project . I helped them with this project several years ago and it has" evolved" into a fun and funky beach house. A new house that feels like an old beach house. High ceilings big porches open staircase and so many treasures ........................
.. They are the best "treasure hunters" I know. They are always on the hunt for great pieces. I have worked with them for years and we never do "normal".
He always teases me and says, "You are way over-rated".....and yet calls on me when he can't decided what in the world to do with all the treasure that he finds. He is a banker but loves to "junk'. He travels to Cuba and is crazy about the color green.
She is a wonderful  writer and newspaper reporter .She has written 6 books about Savannah and is lover of kitties and old things. I am very lucky to have such and good  and interesting friends.

First shot..
After they collected so many old medicine cabinets that they did not know what to do with them I surprise them by hanging them all together over the soaking tub. They love it. ( Some of them still had the old bottles and boxes in side)

The client loves to paint signs and paints everything green..I mean everything!....He loves Jimmy Buffet and when he isn't painting things green he loves to spend the days on the beach.

He wants to"  be me".......... but as a designer..everything cant be green!!!!!! So for now he will stick to his day job as the banker.........

great details and textures from places thay they visit...........................

Great old pieces for storage............................. closets from old!!!!!!
    I call his style..CUBAN STYLE.....................


Added wood on the walls in the master bath..to cover the sheetrock.....Love the old Mirror.... I can't see my wrinkles in an old mirror  . This beach house is only 9 years old but full of old Tybee Island photos and things .

The old iron bed is original to Tybee Island and belonged to my client's father when he was a young man.
                                       

One day I am going to Cuba.......

.( Notice the shutters..... I bought all they had years ago. They are an interesting shade of blue. I used them as  headboards at the" enlisted man mess hall", on the wall at" Mermaid manor" as the cabinet doors and pantry at  A Bohemian cottage".)

" A Bohemian Cottage" will have a new owner soon.

I am packing and moving this week from this very special place. My good friend was so kind to help me pack and organize. . She was standing in my kitchen in the middle of all the boxes and said."This one was the ugliest EVER and just look at how wonderful it turned out to be."

Another friend came to town for the holiday and dropped by. She said ".We felt SO sorry for you when you showed us this place"

Her friend Alice said,"this time I think Jane Coslick has lost it. She may be good but no one could help that place."

It had been on the  market for 5 years and it was so pitiful!!!! The only good thing was the back yard but the owner had taken all the landscape plants.

I began to " Ponder"................

There was so MUCH to Ponder and.....

Exactly WHY had I bought this place?

I bought it because it was the cheapest thing on the market at the time.....

and knew it needed major TLC.....................
HINT........cheap usually means you will be spending boat loads of  money.....

I will try to show you before's snap shots but they don't even tell the real story...

OK  this was the living room and this was the fire place. The floors were "clicky Pergo"and the dogs clicked as they explored their new home. It had a curved brick fireplace like the curved brick exterior walls outside .I "got ' the design element..... However, that made the living room 8 feet wide....and sofa and chairs were going to be a problem.. I had to steal from the master bedroom closet to make the room work.( but created a wonderful janecoslick's  mess hide out)out of the next bedroom... I will miss that wonderful space the most).

NO, I will miss all the  things I added that I want to grab and run away with that made it so bohemian .........

BEFORE living room

   AFTER living room........the fireplace came into the room as far as the bar stool on the right. I opened up the wall and added the bar top

I have done this.. 'design it and run' many many times but this was not the plan here. I leave a bit of my heart and soul with each one I restore and  this one even surprised me!!!! I made it uncomplicated and easy. ....

 The movers will be here at 8:30 am so this will be a short list of a few things that mean so much to me. Not great photos but I am having serious separation anxiety. Most of these things are one of a kind...







A very  special one of a kind gazabo



antique iron with kitty door

antique brick  from the Old Crow factory





the cabinet doors and pantry doors

even the trash can path is old antique brick 

monkey see... monkey do...

great screen porch .. the wicker stays here

EVERY window has a great view





laundry room hooks

I added window in the fence for the kitties

close up of the gazebo

hall bath original paint
DOORS   are so important



all these came from a house I could not save  ...they lived on with me






pantry doors.. more old shutters

I am so going to miss my favorite love seat

old IS beautiful

a bedroom lamp....  Love the button shade

Here is a "street person" that drops by every night for dinner. He is wonderful . I had him fixed and we call him "Big Gray". Hope the new owner will like him and feed him. I will set up a 'trust fund for his food.. he loves AC and stays in the cool for hours. He get along with" my  girls".

Happy Holiday...the fireworks scare me

I cant watch!!!

 

On A Working Holiday....

I am at Marabou Ranch outside of Steamboat Springs Colorado........on a working holiday. I am busy but sit here every chance I get because I love this chair....

My favorite favorite rocking chair!!!!

http://www.marabouranch.com/ 

Steamboat Magazine wrote a story about the project Anna and I did at Marabou Ranch  last year. I took so many  funny photos and some great ones but never had time to post them. I am here now but cant work this computer to load my one million photos.

. Colorado is beautiful, Steamboat is wonderful and Marabou Ranch is off the charts. The article is linked on the Press button on my web site.
Bellamy painted some awesome paintings for the project.( she is part cowgirl) I bought some funky funky pieces in Savannah and I had the chance to do what I love on the Elk River 20 minutes outside of Steamboat .
 I could have been a cowgirl/ or maybe I was an indian in another life. I love nature and the earth and I love the difference between the ocean and the mountains. This project was a chance for major " nest building" while the cattle  and horses watched us thru the windows and the white owl scared Anna as it flew from its spot on the rafters of the porch late one night as we were hurrying to complete this project.
My favorite favorite thing was the rocking chair that bought for $400.00 dollars (that had a $1200.00 price tag). My friend and favorite upholsterer,Larry Davis ( Davis Upholstery) in Savannah Georgia) cover it in a  cowhide that  I bought years ago and has been savings for ME. When it was  done, it was all I could do to put it on the truck bound for Steamboat.

Back in town on Sunday with so many photos for my blog.