Friday, October 7, 2011

so long, sweet cottage life!

alas, my fledgling blog has suffered from a month of crazy life events, such as the selling of our sweet cottage. selling a home really can be all-consuming, especially when it was your dream house as a single gal and homelessness isn't so attractive.  when the plan was to move to california wine country, it wasn't so hard to say goodbye to the charm, the nooks and crannies, of this place.  now that my darling husband has convinced me to go big with more than two bedrooms, a garage, and a yard (dare i say, suburbia??), it's a little harder to stomach! at the closing table back in 2007, the sellers told me that every owner since the originals in the 1930s had been single women...who, after moving in, found their husbands and had babies.  i don't know if that's true, but talk about a selling point!  well, the trend continued, and andy appeared out of thin air.  (no babies yet, don't get excited.)  since then, we renovated the kitchen, put in a slate patio, added a fence, and made the basement a true snuggery (a real word, people).  i'm pretty sure i painted every inch of the entire house, including ceilings and baseboards.  we weathered every natural disaster possible in the course of four years in between our foot-thick stone walls and original double-paned casement windows.  as we head off to temporary apartment living before searching for another dream house, i thought i'd pay a little homage to our cottage life along the Potomac.


already missing my flower box!
they don't make floors like that anymore. next stop, herringbone floors.

lots of great gatherings in there. (paint is BM Shenandoah Taupe, armoire from my favorite store, Random Harvest.)


made those seat cushions...see post on chevron!
our neighbors gave us those plantation shutters, which we sanded and painted for days. sooo worth it.





i would replicate this kitchen in any house.  except maybe not with Carrara marble counters throughout.  go IKEA!

andy built a closet for our guest room, which was basically the only storage we had!
original bathroom with my fave black/white subway tile.



and finally, the snuggery in the basement. complete with andy's man cave items and my cherished wood-burning fireplace with poor ventilation. :)

so long, sweet cottage!


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