The guest rooms of our little beach bungalow have shape-shifted numerous times over the years out of necessity but also on a whim (or five.) In the beginning we couldn’t wait to rip out all evidence of someone else’s ideas and paint a large swath of our own better and more fun ones. One such life for one of these...
Over the space of twelve years one room in our house has had four disconnected personalities. It’s like those stories you read about people reinventing themselves every couple of years. Because of ‘work martyrdom.’ Because a milestone birthday creeps up. Because they are moving toward their authentic self. Often the stories take a madcap turn. They up and quit their...
You know we’d rather tell you cool places to go in Florida than talk about ourselves. We’re not even comfortable with humble-bragging. But now and then we like to give you updates on our sometimes-bumbling, often-two-stooges efforts at redecorating, and living the beach life, with our two dogs and a squirrel. And now with my youngest daughter living here temporarily...
While others eschew themey decor, here at the beach we embrace it! Our plan at first was to design a ‘ship-shape’ kids’ bunk room, but after examining our true selves, where “Work Like a Captain, Play Like a Pirate, Swear Like a Sailor” is our motto, ‘shipwrecked’ was just more in keeping with how we live at the beach. Admit...
