Things are still sloooow with construction at the new house so I’m digging deep to keep myself motivated by looking back to the improvements on the original Tilly’s Cottage. Here are some before and after photos of one of the original upstairs bedrooms. The “rough luxe” approach to design was in vogue when I was …
Another throwback photo from the original cottage of the living room before versus the way it looks now. I remember my joy when I pulled off the the 70s fireplace that had been added and saw what was underneath. It took a lot of scrubbing the brick to get off all the layers of wallpaper …
There are old fireplaces in each of the original upstairs bedrooms in Tilly’s Cottage. A lot of the detail on these cast iron beauties was lost due to too many layers of paint. The builder removed them and I had them dipped to remove all the paint. In the case of the one below in …
Here’s an old before & after when I first did the renovation on Tilly’s Cottage. The backyard of the house was 45 feet long and filled with blackberry brambles. I had a friend (who was 80 at the time) who helped me clear the trees and brambles with his chain saw to help the builders …
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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For those of you who were followers of the original Tilly’s Cottage website, you’ll know that I started the Irish part of renovation journey with a two-story cottage I dubbed “Tilly’s Cottage” after my little Westie — because after all, she’s the reason I bought a house. It’s not easy renting properties when one has …