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{Interior design: Bierly Drake Design, Photography: Michael Partenio via here.}

A Sag Harbor Cottage

{Interior design: Gary Cruz, photography: Keith Scott Morton}

Some of my favorite shelter magazines are courtesy of Cottages and Gardens which produces Connecticut Cottages and Gardens and Hamptons Cottages and Gardens (as well as Palm Beach and Westchester issues). While in East Hampton last weekend I picked up their special issue and found this adorable Sag Harbor cottage featured.

To me, this is the ideal beach cottage nestled in what I think is the most charming of Eastern Long Island towns.

It's not massive, at 2,200 square feet (still 500 square feet larger than my current home!) it retains all of it's 1840's charm yet updated with modern conveniences.

I particularly love the way it doesn't look overdecorated. All of the items have that found quality that I think is essential when furnishing a beach cottage...as if the furniture pieces were cast offs from the owners primary home, or hand-me-downs, or prized treasures from local antique shops.

I'm have a special place in my heart for glossy black front doors!

Are you heading to a beach cottage this weekend - do tell! I wish I were. I'll settle for going to the beach minus the cottage.

Local Design Crush - Healing Barsanti Home {HB Home}

Hands down my favorite local interior design studio is Healing Barsanti Home Design. Pat Healing did the interior design of my husband's childhood home during the early '80's and it was pretty fabulous in all of it's "seafoam" and "shell" pink glory. All of the furniture pieces Pat selected for the home were exquisite and timeless. We have since reupholstered all of them (after years of wear from a busy family of children and pets) and they now live happily in my in-laws new home.

Here are my favorite images from HB Home Design's portfolio.











If you're local, you can visit one of their gorgeous boutiques in Greenwich, Westport, New York, or East Hampton.

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Everything about his space is so my taste (at the moment). The bold, yet classic black and white flooring, the high gloss black door with the brass lion door knocker, the amazing light fixture, and can I just say, I want to kiss that handpainted wallpaper in the dining room. Designed by Elizabeth Dinkel, my current design crush.

Local Design Crush - Alisberg Parker Architects

Tired of seeing my family portraits yet? I'm so happy to put some fresh new images up here! So, this blog has been a major snooze lately and for that I apologize. For your viewing pleasure, let me introduce you to Alisberg Parker Architects, a fabulous, Greenwich firm with whom I'm smitten with.

Their kitchen and bath designs really take my breath away. I love the timeless quality of their work.