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Tag: beach cottage
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What Nor’Easters? 4 Ways to Achieve Island Style
If I were to ask for a show of hands on who is ready for some warm weather during winter’s longest month, I’m pretty confident that my vision would be blotted with palms. The rigmarole of added time needed to dress in layers, being slapped in the face from a cold front or sitting in…
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The Charms of Disconnecting: Creating a Simple Country Home Retreat
While influencers continue to squeeze the hype out of hygee, here’s another back-to-basics Norwegian discipline to follow with catchy phonetics: Hytte, simple country homes that urbanites escape to from the rigmarole of city life. They are basic structures, with minimal electricity and furnishings, which is deliberate. The no-frills appeal dissuades you from a material mentality–enticements are found…
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Resist More – Edit Your Pieces for a Designed Result
Try going an entire day without buying something. While this is not a trendy celebrity challenge of the moment, the thought sheds light on our behavior as a consumer. During this East Hampton small cottage series, our team was confronted by an accumulation of so many belongings it had that overwhelming step-into-an amusement park feeling–and…
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Small Homes Are Trending, Here’s Why
Dissecting millennial traits has become popular sport for marketers, interpreting their love of Ubers and anathema to anything DIY, but this group can be quite practical despite the initiative. Take their preference for smaller homes, which maximizes square footage over superfluous space. The modifications to this 1950s East Hampton clapboard and how to unearth its inherent character…