Cottage charmer home tour

Cottage charmer Home tour in Oregon

Hello Debbiedoo’s Readers!! I’m so excited to be here at Debbie’s today.

I’m Shannon and I blog at Foxhollow Cottage

Debbie graciously invited me over to be a guest in her home tour series. Now, I read and view all these tours… so I admit, I was a little hesitant!

You see… I do not have a big, fancy house.

Then I thought… oh, screw it!

>haha<

So here is my real live house.

In Oregon.Where I live with my hubby of 20 years, our son Austin and our 2 kitties!

My husband and I try hard to do something today that is not always easy… we live within our means. (ie; no charge cards)

I know.

Yikes!

It can be a real challenge.

I will be totally honest, some days…

I want to throw caution to the wind and make changes

we can not afford by using one of those

magical little plastic things.

But we (wink wink) refrain.

And I know in the end… our family is better off.

Here Is The Nickle Tour

We’ll start in the Living Room

I realized something today… I have a zillion photos.But almost every one has been taken at some holiday or another.

Uh-Oh!

I could try to pretend I’m ready for FALL.

(but I would be a big, fat liar)

I took two new quickie-pics instead…

Since pretty much nothing

looks the same now besides the couches.

Then, we have the

gawgeous fiya-place

the home came with…

Which is currently under construction.

But it has had a few tweaks over the years.

From the banishing of the

pumpkin paint in place of a neutral tan.

To pale aqua…

Then to a deeper aqua…

At present… the hearth is demolished.

It’s getting new tiles!

So in real life… it looks like THIS!

Now… On To Our Before Bathroom

This was the before… before.

I went from pale aqua walls to a cottage green.

I am about ready for the calmer spa-look again.

I miss it!

I love changing out *accessories for a whole new look.

And with this room, all I have do is

paint that small accent wall.

Bam. New color story.

This is THE easiest room to change.

Super fun!!

(*that I steal from other rooms of the house!)

The Kitchen

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

I’ll leave it at that.

… and After.

With loads of hard work and some occasional cursing.

You can visit this link for more details, how we did it and what we used here.

This was the far side of the kitchen before…

We added some additional storage with

cabinets and counter tops.

I took the glass front doors off of the upper cabinets a few months ago. I never really liked them. The frames covered up way to much of my “stuff”. Now I can see all my goodies.