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Before and After: A Cape Cod Makes Way For Baby
When a family expands, often a just-right-sized home becomes too cramped. This was the case with a family that approached Bowers Design Build, an award-winning firm located in Northern VA, whose work has been featured on HGTV.
The client in this particular case loved the location of their 1920s Cape Cod home, but felt that it was too small.
Before and After: A Cape Cod Crib in Connecticut
This Old House recently featured the home of a Fairfield, CT, family who drastically transformed their 1953 Cape Cod home after enduring serious renovations, including raising the roof to add four bedrooms and two baths upstairs. Shown here is the former living room, with busy, antiquated wallpaper and worn oak floors that certainly don't help to make the space feel larger. With a little paint, some floor stain, an overhaul of the fireplace, and a lot of DIY demolition, the Kuryluk family transformed the room into an airy, modern space that's up-to-date and stylish.
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Cool Idea: Everything in One Hue
Melanie, of the fabulous Etsy shop Plum Cushion, lives in a seriously stylish 1941 Cape Cod in Seattle. The bones of her home are nice, but it's her cool palette and ability to modernize vintage pieces that really make it hip. One of my favorite elements was how she painted her Rococo sconces and mirror and her Chinoiserie console table to match the blue of her walls.
This Just In: Ken Paves Buys in Beverly Hills
Ken Paves, aka Jessica Simpson's hairdresser and other half, has purchased a 2,762-square-foot, 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath Cape Cod-style house in Beverly Hills for $1.9 million. The listing for the property reads:
Perched on top of a ridge along prestigious Mulholland Drive sits this elegant Cape Cod contemporary designed by Robert Byrd. Flooded with natural light and surrounded by breathtaking views, this home has been renovated with the finest attention to detail.
And the Winner Is . . .
Want to know which lucky lady is the second of two winners in my Summer Style Contest? Then read more
Summer Style Contest Entry: Haze's Slate Garden Gallery
We're in the thick of the Summer Style Contest, and I've received some wonderful submissions revealing your personal Summer styles at home. One creative reader, Haze, launched a major overhaul of her garden and patio in her 1930s Cape Cod-style home in May. In what she calls the "patio reclamation" and "garden refreshment," her husband was "responsible for acquiring the eclectic mix of midcentury pieces that are featured in the space," and she took it upon herself to "refurbish, reclaim, reuse, and repurpose many of these items in order to create a warm and welcoming space with a unique personality."
This Just In: Nicole and Joel are on the House-Hunt
According to Real Estalker, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden took a gander at a three-bedroom, two-bath Cape Cod-esque home in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday. The traditional style home is all kinds of precious and fit for a family of three with a small yard, pool, flagstone deck, new kitchen, carrera marble baths, gorgeous dark hardwood floors, french doors throughout, and lush landscaping. Can't you just see Harlow splashing around in that yard one day?
Steal of the Day: Fleur-de-Lys Window Boxes
I was just looking out my bedroom window the other morning and thinking about how a window box would improve the view. And since I'm also a fleur-de-lys fan, this Smith and Hawken window box offers me everything I could possibly want in a flower box — including a reduced price tag. These sturdy steel Fleur-de-Lys Window Boxes ($119-$159) would look great wherever they were placed, whether in a New Orleans Creole or a Cape Cod beach cottage.
A Handsome Recycled Home
I love stories like this. Family moves into huge, inaccessible home. Family can't deal.
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