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I want to let everyone know that our new blog for Shabby Coast Cottage is now up!

http://shabbycoastcottage.blogspot.com/

Please come by and visit, comment and follow us!!!

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We finished up the majority of the porch painting of the Shabby Coast Cottage yesterday… and I just couldn’t wait to get everything out there and shoot a few photos! It really is amazing what paint can do…. and I love the light gray on the floor!

We are almost ready to open! We have some landscaping to do and a few other minor things…. but the majority of the hard work it done!!

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We are gearing up to open the Shabby Coast Cottage next month!

This week I have been working on painting the side room…

first it needed a fresh coat of white paint on the ceiling, walls and floor!

All the wood in the cottage is Heart Pine and is almost 100 years old!

 Then I knew that I wanted to do something fun and different on the floors…

after searching the web for inspiration, I came across a fabulous blog - Jones Design Company and she has a tutorial on painting a design on a wall.  I loved it and thought that it would look great on the floor!

So I enlarged the template that she provides to  16 inches and cut it out of cardboard.

and then i spent the next 2 days on the floor!

I primed the floor lightly so that the grain would still show through and used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Paris Gray for the design…

 I seriously would have lost my mind with painting a smaller design on walls! Kudos to anyone that can do that!

 After I got it painted, I sanded lightly in some spots and then waxed with a floor wax!

I am hoping that it will age naturally and distress beautifully!

and now a little glimpse into the disaster that this room was just a few months ago…

It was like a Horders Episode…. very scarrrryyyyy…….

And now, The room all Painted and Happy!!

We can’t wait to get the other rooms done and all the goodies loaded in!

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / French Country Cottage /  Faded Charm  Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry

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Things are slowly coming together at Shabby Coast Cottage!

 We are loading up on lots of vintage finds, restored and painted furniture, paintings and jewelry!

Our hangtags have come in and I can’t wait to hang them on all the goodies!

Slowly, we are getting there!

We are still hoping for an opening date in October… a little more painting, a little more fluff and buff and we will be ready to open! We are so excited to see the little Cottage coming to life!

I love the original Glass Door Knob on the front door of our Cottage…

And look at these Heart Pine Walls… I love the gaps between the boards…

The molding around the old sash windows is fabulous!

The cottage was built in 1937 and is all heart pine walls , ceilings and floors!

The painting will begin next week… Fresh Bright White on everything but the floors…

I love the worn roughness of the floors and will prob leave them as is…. every little scrape and nick adds to it!

Little by little the little Shabby Coast Cottage is coming along! Please be sure and join our Cottage Facebook page and follow our progress!

One Saturday while thrifting with one of my best friends -who I call Crabb, because that is her last name and for 20 years that is all i have ever called her… I actually forget she has a first name! Anyway, I came across an old beat up dresser that they wanted 45 bucks for. … Well, Crabb being the professional thrifter and retired Auctioneer… talked them down to $25 using her southern charm! I brought it home and painted her up!

 I also painted the Beach sign on an old fence part… it will go in our Shabby Coast Cottage Shop when we open!

I love this little Vintage Florida Mermaid!

 The Drawer Hardware turned out fabulous painted white! 

 This piece will be available at Shabby Coast Cottage when we open!

Please join our new Facebook Page for the Cottage!

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I participate in the following link parties:

 A Beach Cottage / At the Picket Fence / Be Different Act Normal / Between Naps on the Porch /BoogieBoard Cottage /  Bowl Full of Lemons  / Centsational Girl / Cherished Treasures / Debbiedoos /DIY Showoff    / DIY by Design / Domestically Speaking /Flamingo Toes  / Funky Junk Interiors  / French Country Cottage /  Faded Charm  Cottage /Fingerprints on the Fridge  / Get your Craft On / Home Stories A to Z /   House of Hepworths / I heart Naptimes  / Miss Mustard Seed / My Romantic Home /  My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Savy Southern Style   /Shabby Chic Cottage  / Sas Interiors / Sugar and Dots  / Sisters of the Wild West / Simply Designing / Shabby Chic Cottage /Somewhat Simple /  Southern Hospitality/ Sugar Bee Crafts / Sugar and Dots / Sumos Sweet Stuff / Thrifty Decor Chic  /Tip Junkie  /  Today’s Creative Blog / The House in the Roses / The Girl Creative  / The Shabby Nest / Tator Tots and Jello / Under the Table and Dreaming / Whipperberry