April 2, 2019 Connecticut Home

A Fun Announcement!

New Canaan Cares Home Tour

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The New Canaan Cares Home Tour!

 

The 27th annual New Canaan Cares Home Tour will be taking place next month. I’m excited to announce our home will be part of this year’s tour!

If you’re local than you probably already know what a great organization New Canaan Cares is! I feel so lucky to have such a supportive program right here in our town. So when we were approached a few months ago to be part of this year’s fund raising home tour on May 16th, we were more than happy to oblige.

For those unfamiliar with the work New Canaan Cares does, in short it is an independent, non-profit community organization whose purpose is to advance the health and well-being of youth and families. New Canaan Cares provides responsive educational programs that support and strengthen parenting skills, positive youth development, and healthy lifestyles – free-of-charge.

The Home Tour is CARES’ major fundraising event with 100% of its proceeds directly supporting youth leadership programs, parent workshops and health and wellness programs for the whole community. By purchasing a ticket, you will help New Canaan Cares to continue offering these innovative presentations free of charge!

Click here to learn more about the tour and to purchase tickets.

 

PS: If you’re unable to make the tour, you can see more of our home here and here!

 

March 6, 2019 life

A Personal Note-

“losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow”

-lyrics from Graceland / Paul Simon

 

My father- my dad, passed away peacefully yesterday morning at the age of 90. It feels a bit weird to announce something so deeply personal here. But, this loss felt too big for me not to honor it.

Years ago, when I first started this blog, my dad (at the age of 80) was one of my first loyal readers. I remember seeing his photo in my Google reader follower count and getting such a kick out of how up to date he was with technology. I think he got a kick out the fact that I was finally getting back to my “design roots” – he was a graphic designer and an art director, back in the “Mad Men“ days of advertising.

Anyway, I don’t tend to get too personal with stuff here. I like to keep it mostly, if not all – design and style related. NOT because I’m trying to fool anyone into thinking my life is picture perfect. Rather, it’s because talking about aesthetics and fashion, interior design, etc. can be such a great distraction from most of life’s challenges. At least it is for me. Which, at the end of the day is why I’ll probably be back to regular blogging and social media sooner than later. I’m going to need this…

XX,

Sue

 

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March 5, 2019 Our Home

Update On Our Beach House Renovation: Some Before And Afters

 

Beach House Renovation Before Afterfaucet  //  farm house stainless sink  //  hardware  //  backsplash

 

Beach House Renovation: Before and After photos

 

This beach house renovation is taking so much longer than we had first anticipated.

If you follow my stories on Instagram, then you know the main reason for the delay is due to the original contractor. I don’t want to get into the details on what he did, or didn’t do…but the good news is – we have a great new contractor on the job now.

Things are finally moving in the right direction!

So, today I’d thought I’d share some of the progress in a few before and afters.

As you can see, the kitchen is really coming together. In fact the whole first floor is dramatically different. We opened it all up to create one large living space, perfect for a beach house.

The prior layout was very choppy and broken up and didn’t allow for a lot of natural light or take advantage of the lovely view.

In addition to the large first floor living space we then added a wall to the front door stairs area in order to create a small front door foyer area.

This new wall will also allow for a tv to hang on the wall on the opposite side, which is nice because now we don’t have to hang it over the fireplace in the living room.

 

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