When we bought the cottage in 2007, the former owners handed down a photo album with pictures of the cottage dating back to the year it ...

It had been a little over a year since the big  bathroom reveal , and I still had a blank wall. I'm a big fan of artwork in the bathroo...

. There are a lot of new plastic or rubber shingles that have a cedar look, but we chose to go with old fashioned wood shakes. And Ar...

Our little cottage, with photo-shopped cedar roof -- hah! wish it were so easy! It's been a while since I posted about our...

Cottage Kitchen After Photo The kitchen at our beach cottage had last been remodeled sometime in the mid to late '80s, judging fr...

Cottage After - With Bead Board Our cottage was built in 1925, so it's pretty astounding that it had an indoor bathroom. One of th...

Front Porch Awaiting Windows Installation We got the first project estimates from Dan and we are well within our budget - it's a ...

Cottage Porch Renovation - Before & After Much has been written about hiring contractors, and I've read a lot of it. The...

Last night we wrote up a list of everything we'd like to do to the cottage. We can't afford to do everything all at once, so w...

Our only hesitation about buying Old Orchard Cottage ? We weren't sure if this bay on the Northfork would have the white sand an...