A unique feature that we wanted to include in This New Cottage was the distinctive charm of a cottage’s built-in bookshelves, horizontal paneling on the walls, and a certain style of interior doors. I had clipped several magazines in my idea stage that illustrated these ideas. The clippings showed pictures of shelves built into the […]
A Sentimental Journey
Webster defines nostalgia as a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. These desires or yearning can be triggered by certain sights, sounds, […]
It All Started with the Stove
Long before we decided to build This New Cottage, my husband mentioned an article he had read that linked the colors of cars in the 1950s and 1960s to feelings of optimism and happiness in the general population during those times. In those eras, cars were indeed colorful – reds, yellows, blues, greens, and many […]
Life before Pinterest
Although it’s hard to imagine “what we used to do” before mobile devices and social media, a lot of us do still remember those days! When my husband and I started to plan the design and building of This New Cottage, and with me being a scrapbooker, there really was only one way I could […]
