These are not your garden variety clothes. While fashion trends change season to season, these garments actually grow with the seasons.
Horticouture
Fashion designer Jacob Olmedo’s Wearable Gardens are a kind of HortiCouture twist on mobile gardens–portable pockets of … Read More...
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Some environmentally conscious designers and artists are creating haute horticouture–botanical fashion statements made with ornamental plants, flowers, and even edible greens. Many of these cultivated collections are artworks meant for viewing alone, while others are designed to be worn.… Read More...
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I am so excited to show you the dining room! It was a very dated room before with pretty awful wallpaper… now it’s light and bright. The color is one that we have in our home in our upstairs and downstairs hallways and our dining room. It’s called Stormy Weather and I love how it’s the most slight gray with very little undertones (if anything it reads green).
So, what do you think? It’s starting to look like a gorgeous blank slate, isn’t it? I am dying to stage this room… we currently own everything I’m using so it’s really easy for me to envision what the space will look like. I marked on some of the photos where the other rooms are so you can get a feel for how the house flows:
I decided I need to start distinguishing the flips we are going to do… just in case AJ says yes to doing another one… so folks, #EssexAveFlip is born. Search with this hashtag to see any flip progress!
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We have a little under two weeks left of our most insane summer ever. I’ll share more details why in another post but this flip was, and continues to be, a big part of it. If you are new here AJ is a middle school teacher so he has the summers off. He’s always used the time to do renovations on our rentals but this year we decided to bite the bullet for our fourth flip. If any of you have spouses who are teachers you may know how hard the transition to summer is when the schedule is so different from the school year… for everyone in the family. We find all of us adapt better to the schedule change if there isn’t much change so AJ generally leaves for the day and puts in six – eight hours at the flip or the rentals each day. Of course there are vacations or beach days but in general the same daily routine works best for our family.
My job is to do all the shopping and sourcing of materials and AJ’s job is to install them. It’s basically my dream situation. 
^^ Notice the variations in counter… the little cutting board they made us shows it really well. This area will be staged as a coffee bar with THIS MUG STAND.^^
^^ My favorite part of the kitchen… I just purchased this gorgeous long wooden cutting board to stage this space with one of our large rectangular ones! Aren’t those windows amazing?!? ^^
^^ Bar stools will be at this long counter area… I think I’ll use the sea grass ones from our former home (similar ones HERE and SO affordable). ^^
^^ We hope the plumbers and electrician will finish up this week so the wall and ceiling can be finished and patched back up… and so the faucet and dishwasher can be installed correctly.
I am so excited to show you the dining room progress next… AJ re-drywalled the entire thing and it looks fantastic! He’s about 70% done redrywalling the bedrooms upstairs as well… he’s a machine.
Sources:
Cabinets, Sink and Faucet: Building Supply Outlet || Peabody, MA (If you are from the North Shore of MA and are redoing a house… GO HERE! We get such great deals!!!)
Counters: North Shore Marble and Granite || Peabody, MA
Range (the reviews on other sites were better than you see on Amazon), Dishwasher, Fridge and Microwave
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When I think disposable, I think landfill. So when I heard about the new $8 biodegradable and disposable cardboard CasusGrill, I thought, wow, this has everything–environmentally friendly, convenient, easy to use, and so compact and lightweight you can throw it … Read More...
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Once in a while a pup could really use a little respite from this dog-eat-dog world.
When a pooch is dog tired after a long day on the run, chillin’ out at Yappy Hour … Read More...
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Here’s a civilized idea for getting away from civilization…or for hunkering down right in your own backyard. Escape off-grid (or not) with ...
