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“The home, whether or not cottage or fortress, stands for who we’re, how we dwell, and the way we love ourselves and others.” –Frances Schultz, creator of The Bee Cottage Story
The Easy Sophisticate, episode #56
Your entire interview with creator and blogger Frances Schultz is offered solely on audio this week, so do you should definitely tune in as we focus on happiness, meditation, the present of actually attending to know your self and the way that interprets into adorning your sanctuary. Beneath is a peek into and round the grounds of Bee Cottage which is situated in East Hampton. To see your entire house, together with earlier than and after photos and detailed description and particulars from Frances, I extremely suggest the ebook as it’s a wealthy and galvanizing useful resource.
A 1920 stucco home, Frances bought it in 2008 and restored it to its full grandeur. Her journey initially was the main focus of a 9-part month-to-month column in House Beautiful starting in 2009 and ultimately grew to become the inspiration for the ebook The Bee Cottage which is the first focus of our dialog. Whereas her experience and unique intent was to share decor suggestions and inspiration, the ebook is a component memoir and half decor guide making it all of the extra worthy of setting apart a morning or afternoon to devour.
~The Bee Cottage, roughly 2300 sq ft, inbuilt 1920~
~certainly one of Frances’ decor ideas when you have a small kitchen and must preserve area, dangle baskets and/or pots~
~the French daybed talked about throughout the episode which is located within the research/visitor room~
~the paint colours of the shutters, but additionally many different partitions and cabinets are shared inside the ebook~
~In 2012 Frances was form sufficient to write down a visitor publish for TSLL on learn how to welcome home friends in fashion (here is the hyperlink). Taking that subject, she expands upon it in her ebook with much more photos~
To buy The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Issues and Adorned My Approach Again to Happiness by Frances Schultz, view the three choices:
~for a signed copy, go to www.francesschultz.com
~most native bookstores have her ebook in inventory, so you should definitely ask or take a look at the brand new launch cabinets
~Buy on Amazon here.
~Books talked about throughout our dialog:
Petit Plaisir
Decor suggestions and inspiration from the pages of Frances Schultz’s The Bee Cottage Story:
- first, determine how you’ll dwell in the home. record your day-to-day habits; how do you progress via the rooms? How are you going to make use of them? Hold a log of your actions to be sure you are conscious of them. Plan to prepare your area round what you actually do.
- crown molding and wainscoting improve a room’s dimension
- flip a random object into a light-weight fixture (a chicken cage maybe?)
- rooms shouldn’t be static. One of many methods to maintain them full of life is to vary the artwork and objects displayed in them, nonetheless easy or modest
- maintain a group that’s sentimental to you (Frances has a group of clear jars filled with sand from her travels)
- enable baskets and pots to hold as decor in kitchens or pantries to offer texture and heat. Merely dangle them from a medal rod used for curtains with an “S” hook. This additionally frees up cupboard area when you have a small kitchen.
- set up pull-out cabinets in your decrease cupboards. In Frances’ personal phrases, “It is going to be life-changing.”
- have hand cleaning soap and hand cream by the sink within the kitchen. Frances recommends L’Occitane merchandise for high quality and packaging.
- rooms may be puzzles. When you have quite a lot of items that don’t “match”, simply allow them to float round in there and don’t give it some thought for awhile. Generally you’ll return and see a chunk that matches, and all of it comes collectively.
- design your own home in a manner that helps and validates who you might be and what you do
For extra particular decor suggestions, inspiration and a bevy of earlier than and after photos, you should definitely decide up The Bee Cottage Story
~SIMILAR POSTS YOU MIGHT ENJOY FROM THE ARCHIVES:
~Authenticity: Finding the Courage to Be Yourself (podcast)
~6 Ways to Create a Chic Sanctuary (podcast)
~Why Not . . . Spring Forward? (Dan Harris’ ebook 10% Happier is mentioned intimately)
Photographs by way of Frances Schultz, Trevor Tondro and Home Lovely
