New Listing Alert

Check out my new, drool-worthy listing in Lower Gwynedd.

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

It’s an amazing townhouse with upgraded everything and easily the best kitchen I’ve ever seen in the neighborhood. 

I’ll let the pictures do the talking:

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

1543 Kellogg Drive, Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002

Price is $475,000, and you can read the full description and see even more photos on my Featured Properties page.

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Pretty House of the Week

It’s been a strange winter. 

I’ve never really minded snow – maybe it’s the collegiate New Englander in me.  But since we’ve had so little this year it seems like a huge inconvenience now, doesn’t it?

At least we can all admire this snow-covered beauty.  This house has to be in New England.  Maybe on the Cape?

via COCOCOZY

I would buy it in a second.  Too bad it’s not for sale like last week’s pretty house.

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Remember Domino Magazine?

It’s BACK!

via High Street Market

Well, kind of.  But I’ll take one or two issues a year over no issues a year!

Click here to find out more.

Oh, yeah and HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!  Check out these Domino blasts-from-the-past to get you in the spirit:

Those beds!

via Domino Magazine

That sofa! 

via Domino Magazine

Where else can you find an all-pink room that looks so chic? 

via Domino Magazine

The poster that launched a thousand spaces: 

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Lots of love xo

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Pretty House of the Week

For the first time (I think ever?), this week’s pretty house is FOR SALE!

514 Monticello Lane, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

I could literally write a book on how fabulous this house is – from its         6,900 sq.ft.(!) of living space to its wooded views and perfectly manicured landscaping.  (Aren’t you just dying over those hedges leading to the front door?)

We’re on the market for $1,390,000 and will have an OPEN HOUSE next Sunday, February 19 from 12-2PM. 

If you or someone you know is hunting for an estate home in Whitemarsh Township – in one of the area’s most prestigious neighborhoods that never, I mean never, has anything for sale – stop by for a tour. You will fall in love with this house.

In the meantime, click on this link

www.514Monticello.com

or scan this QR code with your smartphone

514 Monticello Lane QRcode

to visit the site with all the photos and tons of details.

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30

Wow!  30 years old.

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Feels completely different and exactly the same all at once.

It will probably hit me the first time someone asks at random, “How old are you?” and I have to pause for a split second to remember my age doesn’t start with twenty-something anymore.

Love to all my family and friends for making me feel so special. 

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It’s gonna be such a great year!

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Color of the Year

Have you heard?  Pantone announced it’s Color of the Year for 2012!

via Pantone

Get your Tangerine Tango on by wearing it:

H&M Blazer

via H&M.com

J.Crew pumps

via jcrew.com

J Brand skinny twill pants @ Free Shop in Ambler

via Free Shop

or decorating with it:

Paint

via As Is Home

Linen pillow

via Inglenook Decor

Throw blanket

via Architectural Digest

Will you inject a little Tangerine Tango into your house or wardrobe this year?  I’m going to!

I think it’s the kind of color that just makes you happy.

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Get Fit!

Do you guys remember my Happy Seller, Stuart?  His King of Prussia gym and training facility is hosting Fit Day on Saturday, March 24.

via Aspiring Champions

Check out the itinerary and get a jump start on your New Year’s Resolution for just $20 at Aspiring Champions:

  • Aspiring Champions Combine
  • Group 1: Ages 7-9
  • Group 2: Ages 10-13
  • Group 3: Ages 14-17
  • Group 4: Ages 18 & up
  • Adult Boot camp with 8DL Fitness’ Steve Wilson
  • Kettlebells with DV8’s Phil Scarito
  • 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament
  • Raffles
  • Prizes will be awarded

Register by emailing aspiringchampions@aol.com, calling 610-491-9075, or stopping by the gym at 970 Pulaski Drive in KOP by Saturday, March 3.

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Pretty House of the Week

Usually this time of year, I’m posting photos of pretty houses covered in snow.  It seems strange that we haven’t had any so far – except for that freak October storm.

House Beautiful’s February issue is unreal.  Whatever Newell Turner is doing over there needs to keep happening forever and ever.  I’m not sure how, but every month, the photos just keep getting better.

via House Beautiful

This is an East Hampton guesthouse that designer, Bunny Williams, turned into an absolute knockout.  (Had to takepictures with my BlackBerry, because I couldn’t find it online anywhere.)

via House Beautiful

I never tire of a giant great room.

via House Beautiful

And how gorgeous is the guest bedroom and bathroom?

via House Beautiful

via House Beautiful

If these people invited me to stay with them, I might never leave.

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you and everyone you love.

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2012 is going to be amazing.

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DIY Bookcases

Happy Holidays, friends!  While you have some time off this season, here’s a great DIY for you to mull over – straight from my own house.

My husband and I really wanted to add built-in bookcases to an upstairs bedroom, so I started getting estimates.  $3,000 here, $4,000 there.  Ummmm…no way.

Time to get creative.

After a week of searching, I found these beauties on craigslist for $50 each.

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They matched all of my criteria: super tall, solid wood, heavy, narrow in depth, and cabinet-door bottoms. These ended up being about 8″ shy of the ceiling and only 12.5″ deep, which is perfect for books and accessories, but not so deep that they take up too much floor space in the room. Know what I mean?

Here’s an in-progress shot of the (super messy) too-blue room:

source: me

See how tall they are?  Critical to the success of the project.

I told my contractor what I wanted to do: “Take these ugly things and make them look like they’ve been on either side of the window forever.”  

He added fluted molding, similar to this,

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on the non-window sides that touched the walls.

Then he bolted the backs to the wall, and added a two piece crown molding cap that is unreal.  Looks super high-end, but it was just a couple pieces of inexpensive trim.  He even cut out a small section on the inside of the right cabinet to expose that wall outlet you see below the window in the “in-progress” shot above – genius!

Then he sanded, primed, and painted everything in Benjamin Moore’s White Dove (semi-gloss).  I really like their Natura line because of the eco-friendly, zero-VOC factor (i.e. your house doesn’t stink for a week after you paint).  It’s more expensive than regular paint, but totally worth it, in my opinion.

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Lastly, all of the trim and the doors were painted in the same White Dove semi-gloss, and the whole room was painted Benjamin Moore’s Gray Owl, also from the Natura line.

via ChicagoHomeMag

Want to see the finished product?

source: me

The photo quality here is brutal, I know, but I couldn’t be happier with how they turned out!  They look just the way I envisioned and were a teeny, tiny fraction of the cost of custom built-ins.  But they look exactly the same!  Sometimes I stand in the doorway and just stare at them.  For a long time.

All that’s left to do is shop for some cool hardware for the handles and fill the shelves.

Do this project and I promise you will be so happy.  And if you want my contractor’s info so he can do the same in your house, send me a message here.

Now, where else I can put bookcases in my house?

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