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The Lettered Cottage
www.theletteredcottage.net
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An online journal by The "Lettered Couple", Kevin and Layla Palmer, written to document their renovation adventures.
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Cottage Style Trim

Brian finished the closet baseboards (they match our existing baseboards, yay!) and the trim around the doors and cubby holes yesterday… He brought the cutest little helper with him too… ...

17 h ago

Guest Bedroom/Home Office Closet And Ceiling Update

Saturday, May 26th. 3:30pm- Install the first wood plank on top of our existing textured ceiling: (There’s actually wood up above our ceilings in this part of the house, so it made for easy nai...

2 days ago

Cottage Red

Our camera shy carpenter had to finish up a job at another house yesterday and today, but he did start cladding our closets before he left on Wednesday afternoon. So exciting! I’m probably driv...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

Wood Closets

Since this here blog acts as our virtual scrapbook, and I’m beyooooond excited about the closet project we’ve got going on at our house right now, I wanted to include a picture of our ama...

23 may 12

Old Closet Doors

Remember when I surprised Kev with a freshly painted home office/guest room? Well, since that day, I found a local carpenter named Brian to help us build some closets at the far end of the room, sort...

21 may 12

Spring Fever Giveaway

Meet Mary Kay… Meet Mary Kay’s new book- Spring Fever… I’m on chapter 7, but I was hooked by page 2! Without giving too much away, it’s about a woman named Annajane Hudg...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Kit-Cat the Crazy

The other day I caught Kit-Cat doing something…weird. It involved Kevin’s bathroom sink… …and a full bladder… …but absolutely no flushing when he was done. #gross ...

17 may 12 1 person likes this

Wall Niche – Pick My Presto

Hey there- and welcome to another installment of Pick My Presto! I randomly selected another email from my Pick My Presto inbox this week, and had fun photoshoppin’ a picture of a wall niche se...

16 may 12

Room Inspiration: Life Of Splendor

Have you e-met Lindsay from Life of Splendor? She and her husband, Chris, bought a fixer upper a couple of years ago and I’m so excited to share their recent bathroom redo photos here today. He...

15 may 12

It Had To Be Done

We hired a couple fellas to cut down a dead tree in our backyard the other day. It wasn’t the most fun home improvement money we’ve ever spent, but apparently home owners insurance doesn&...

10 may 12

Home Office/Guest Bedroom Update

Kev went out of town last week, so I decided to have a little “surprise by design” style home improvement fun in his future home office/studio space. The day he left, I bought sample pots...

08 may 12

How To Use Photoshop Elements 10

One of my favorite things about blogging is that I can release my inner artsy-fartsy. Wait a second. That came out wrong. Seriously though, I have had an absolute BLAST playing around with my picture...

02 may 12 2 people like this

A Fun Way To Find Color And Pattern Inspiration For Your Home

You know my BFF, Shannan (a.k.a Flower Patch Farmgirl), right? Well, since she’s one of my favorite writers in the whole weird world, I asked her if she’d put together a post just for me ...

02 may 12

I Love Lucy

I’ve got a new e-friend named Lucy that I’d like to introduce you to today. She’s one of the most entertaining little gals I’ve ever e-met and I think her YouTube videos are m...

30 apr 12

Rope Bridge Moments

Today’s an interior design post. And by interior design, I’m referring to the kind on the right side of the picture below… It’s about the day I decided to see Rock City and ho...

26 apr 12

Photo Styling Favs

Just a quick heads up: I’m guest blogging about my top 3 “must haves” when it comes to interior photo styling over at Just A Girl today… …so if you’d like to read ...

25 apr 12

The Journey Is Worth The Drive

The following post was written by my friend, Shaunna, ’cause she always knows just what to say… I have this thing for the sea. I’m not sure how or why, but the sounds of the tide br...

23 apr 12

Transcending by Kelly Corrigan

Have you seen this? It makes me smile/think/laugh/cry every time I stumble onto it, and I just thought you might want/need/like to see it, too.

20 apr 12 1 person likes this

iPhone Pics & Pinterest Prose

iPhone pics + a quote that struck a chord = I used to think I was the strangest person pet in the world. But then, I thought, there are so many people pets in the world… …there must be on...

18 apr 12 1 person likes this

School Light

So, we’ve got this guest bathroom. The right side of it is almost done, and the left side of it is…well… Work in there came to a halt sometime last year, but we did install a ($25) ...

16 apr 12

Herb Crate Giveaway

**THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED** We’ve got a fun giveaway courtesy of our friend, Betsy, today! As you can see from the photos above, Betsy carries all kinds of farmhouse fabulous-ness in her Farmho...

13 apr 12 1 person likes this

DIY Headboard & Bedroom Inspiration

I e-got together with my friend, Beth, a while back to help her come up with ideas for a headboard dilemma she was having. After a few messages back and forth, and inspired by this family photo of he...

12 apr 12

Hallway Light

We’ve had this hole in the ceiling in our hallway for, oh…let’s see…maybe, like, two years? After we painted the ceiling, we just never got around to installing a light, and t...

11 apr 12

HGTV Room

Kev and I took a little road trip to Atlanta this past weekend, and boy did it feel good to get out and do something different for a couple of days! We stayed in Buckhead on Thursday and Friday night...

09 apr 12

Pioneer Woman Book Signing

Kev and I had a truly gut-busting time at Brookwood Village Mall yesterday. We ate waaaay too much food court food, and hung out with folks that made us laugh until our cheeks hurt! Ree and I had tal...

05 apr 12

Photography 101 Giveaway

I’m on my way to B’ham today, but Kev and Josh are giving away a free pass to their Photography 101 class over at the shootFLYshoot blog today. So if you’re interested reeeeally und...

04 apr 12

Pioneer Woman Presto Update

Remember when I blogged about helping P-Dub renovate/re-decorate her upstairs? Well, she’s been a super busy gal lately with the release of her second cookbook… …so obviously she...

03 apr 12 1 person likes this

Variety Is The Spice Of (My Lettered) Life

Today’s a bit of a smorgasbord post. A little bit of everything…even Chuck E. Cheese pizza. (PS- There are 5 questions for you throughout this bad boy, too. If you feel like responding to...

02 apr 12

Wall Stencil

I got this stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils last year for our pilot shoot because I was thinking we’d have time to use it on some curtains in the Morrison’s living room… (Silly me...

01 apr 12

Kit-Cat the Adventurer

3 things I love about Kit-Cat: 1. His sense of adventure. Unfortunately I’m forced to interrupt the adventure from time to time, but I usually can’t resist snapping a photo of him first. ...

31 mar 12 2 people like this

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