I feel a great sense of accomplishment to have landed on my color palette (not including my neutrals palette of gray, black and white). I’m not going to be a slave to the colors but I needed to think about the mix and how it all works together – particularly for the open living, dining, …
A friend asked me what this photo was about and I told her we’re going for a house with a moat. She says she didn’t believe me but she did hesitate for just a second or two. The team has been hard at work battling all kinds of crazy winter storms in Ireland to get …
I have always been very blessed to have an eclectic group of smart and creative friends and family. A perfect case in point is my highly talented friend, @Brent_Hay_Art. I’d been admiring a series of paintings of Brent’s and the next thing you know, one of the studies in the series shows up at my …
As of today, more than half of the house is gone and what’s left isn’t much to write home about. The demo part of the construction is moving swiftly along. I’ll be excited to see walls going up and the new space starting to take shape.
The guys did such a great job of clearing out yesterday. The former kitchen and dining are gone – hasta baby!
The fun all started today — here are a photos just from the first 20 minutes of demo day. I really wish I could throw on a hard hat and join the fun… I found a photo behind an old mirror that was in the house when I bought it. A photo had slipped behind …
I lost a lot of the content from the original Tilly’s Cottage website but I found these photos of some of the work that was done on the stairs. I added a transom window with stained glass in the upstairs bedroom in order to bring in more light to the stairway, Everything had to be …
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We officially broke ground on the 20th January. There’s a pause of a few days before the real work starts on Monday. Am I ready? Not in the slightest. Have I finished packing up? Nope. Am I excited? You betcha.
One hard thing with Matilda House over the past year has been to avoid exercises in futility. There are so many things I would have liked to have changed or improved but there comes a point when it just doesn’t make a lot of sense working on something that’s only going to be ripped up …
I was perplexed by the sitting room in the house when I went to the viewing. It was super cold in the room — no insulation in those ceiling rafters — and the furniture was too big for the space and pushed up against the walls. Thanks to my sweet friend, Abby, we were given …