I’ve been vacationing on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina for 48 years. After that long, a place feels more like a second home. All of those years have been …
How Little Sinking Creek Farm was Born
The cabin is in the valley, but there is a hill above it where the view is amazing. We wondered should we just leave the cabin as is and build up on the hill where we could see all of Holston Mountain? The answer was no…despite that gorgeous view, saving the cabin and its history by renovating it was too alluring.
The Green Bathroom Makeover
OUR ST. PATTY’S DAY BATHROOM. Somehow this ended up being the only green thing in our house, unless you count the grass outside. We always referred to it as …
Countdown Week #4
Time for countdown week number 4…shouldn’t I have gotten more done in a month’s time? Worked out more, slept more, spent more time with the kids (not necessarily in that …
Countdown Week #3
I can’t believe it has been 3 weeks since I started our move-in countdown. I must say the house is moving pretty fast now. The outside is really taking shape. …
Countdown Week #2
Another week closer to our move-in date and a few things have happened in the last seven days. The sheetrock upstairs is completely finished! We took our 3-year-old over there …
Countdown Week #1
I’ve decided that we’re close enough to our move-in date to begin a weekly countdown. Everyone keeps asking, “when will your house be done?” or “when do you think you’ll …
Affordable Art
Oversized art pieces make a statement in any space. They’re big and bold and you only need one item as opposed to the several it would take to fill up the same …
Golf Club Curtain Rod
We moved into our first home about a minute after we got married 13 years ago. Four houses later it’s still my favorite, because I put my heart and soul …
Lake Bedroom
You may start to notice a pattern about our paint colors at the lake…blue, blue and more blue. Specifically turquoise. That’s the color of our master bedroom and it was …