I have been sharing the story behind our pieces of furniture, chandeliers, and lots of other things over the last couple of weeks.  Each of our pieces have a story that I would love to share.  I have shared our  antique wardrobe, the linen cabinet, an antique chandelier, and our medicine cabinet. We have been working […]

Do you remember where this chandelier hung in the House on Winchester?  It was hanging above the stairway.  It happens to be my favorite antique chandelier that we have, therefore, it came with us when we sold the house.   We wrote it in the sales agreement that we would take this chandelier with us, but […]

I wasn’t going to share another piece of furniture in this series until next week.  BUT, the linen closet here at the cottage is done.  And I couldn’t wait to share it with you.  So, I figured, why not?  You need to know the history behind this piece.  I already shared the story behind our […]

Last week, I shared the story behind an antique piece that we have had for years.  It was an old wardrobe that I bought over 20 years ago that we are using as a coat closet.  Check out the post if you want to see what it was been throughout the years and what I […]

Note:  We are in the midst of lots of projects here in the cottage.  I wanted to share the entire process with you.  So you will see trim not hung and painted in some of these posts, but all of this is real life.   I started collecting antiques directly out of high school and filled […]

Another project completed! We now have a brick wall behind our fireplace in our dining room. We did something a little different with our brick than what is standard today, and I love how it turned out! Let me tell you all about it! Our Brick Wall behind our Fireplace From Flat to That- Where […]

  This may be the slowest move in history.  And, I’m fine with that.  We have lived in chaos for so long that both of us have PTSD from it.  We had no storage in the rental or the cottage.  There were things tucked behind every piece of furniture, and we both got so overwhelmed.  […]

If you follow me on Instagram and Facebook, you see Ivy’s ???? picture a lot.  I mean… who doesn’t have 14,000 pictures of their dog on their phone doing nothing but sleeping?  ????????‍♀️ I shared about Ivy’s Rescue on my Instagram stories and had several of you want to replay them.  But, as you know, […]