Shell's Cottage

As promised, here are a few more pictures!  A quick tour of the main entry, bedrooms, bathrooms and the mudroom. This is one of the two bedrooms on the main floor. This sweet room is on the north side of the house.  It is long and narrow and it has white beadboard, yellow wallpaper, floor to ceiling shelves and a dresser with upper cabinets built into the closet (sorry, no picture of that yet…darn it!).  The windows had these nice sage green velvet curtains that I like…but not…

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The big day finally arrived in late August after all the usual back and forth and money discussions and documents and signing this and that – all that stuff involved in buying a house!  The key was ours! The realtors had been pretty good about letting me in to wander around and make lists and measure things and just think about it all during the buying process – it helped that their office was only two short blocks away. I also came by to water…

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We bought a new beach house…or rather an old beach house… around 100 years old actually.  What were we thinking?  Well…it was just so cool!  A classic  Oregon beach house that had been updated a bit over the years but nobody had changed what makes these old places so great… fir floors and beadboard and glass door knobs and built in cupboards and original kitchen cabinets and a great brick fireplace.  Makes you want to curl up in a warm cozy quilt with a good…

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