A new beginning: a peek into the story of our beach house...

BEFORE:::...Our 800 square ft beach cottage that we purchased before we owned our year round home..we knew we wanted a beach house and if we didn't do it in that order, it never would have happened...we fixed it up ourselves and rented it out by the week in the summer for 15 years....In the meantime, we bought our home in NY (1963 ranch)  that I've been blogging about....In the early fall of 2009, it was time to stop renting and knock down the beach house so that we could rebuild our dream at the shore....These are some pics we took on the day we were emptying it out and saying goodbye to the cute little house....It was bittersweet.....so many happy memories there...but it was time to move on...

After years of my husband and I planning and drawing out how we wanted our new house to look, (it was a challenge because the lot is sooooo small) we finally bit the bullet and went for it full steam ahead....There are too many photos to show, so I think I'll start with the finished product!!!..(well almost finished)  .so many choices and decisions to be made...we had never built a house before....I wanted to get it all right!!!  I hope you enjoy and please follow along with me as I get to the decorating this summer....HOORAY!!!!

About a billion more photos to see in the coming months.....so much to do and so looking forward to summer 2011!!!