Thursday, September 15, 2011

"It is a beautiful ocean today, isn't it? What would you say that is, sort of sapphire? I've never seen anything like that ocean! "


 Before & After painting of our front porch/mud room.



Before & after of the front porch/mud room windows...
still in progress but 90% there! 



I found this warm, welcoming color in a 
bin full of returned custom colors for $3.99...
Original price $32.99.  
It is quite accurately named "Mocha Suede".



 It is amazing the immediate results you get after 
painting a room.  It can change the mood completely.



 Pugsley perched high on his pedestal 
beneath his mighty self portrait.

Not quite finished but this side of the room 
has all 3 coats dried and waiting for shabby chic decor-
I could not resist hanging a few things up.



I already rearranged some things 
as you can see in the photo above haha.
The trim obviously still needs to be painted 
and touched up a bit.  Just in time for autumn.



I feel like this photograph when I am in this room haha.  
As if I am on vacation in a craftsman cottage in the 1930's



Searching for some inspiration I came across 
this room that is almost the same color!  
I love the bright white trim against the warm mocha brown.



A cute and cozy setup.  
I want to feel like I am lounging in East Hampton.



The most adorable set up.  Notice how it is in a 
city right along a street?  Looks like a cottage in 
the woods at first glance!



I want to stick to Victorian style furniture 
in this room.  I am on the hunt for a chaise 
to put in the front room where you can sit
and put on your shoes or just sit 
and chat for a while have an Octoberfest or two.



Built in bookcases which also serve as a bench.  
Need I say more?



The prefect place to flop down in my corduroy La-z-boy 
reading a hundred year old book.