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PORCHES

Don’t you just love the look of porches! I found these photos on the Country Home magazine website and just loved them. They have this romantic, soft billowy look about them. We don’t have a porch at our current home but I sure would love to have one someday. I can just imagine myself….. sitting out on our beautiful porch on a perfect summer evening…we finished dinner, the dishes are done, and my hubby and I are drinking a tall cold glass of refreshing lemonade and eating some homemade flaky shortbread cookies just out of the oven! We sit there into the evening watching neighborhood kids play “hide and go seek” out in the street and reminisce about how we used to do that as kids. Then we watch the sunset…. and soon the fireflies start to light up all around us and we just smile at each other and enjoy the sweet quiet moment.

Please share with us how you enjoy your porch or how you would like to enjoy a porch of your own?

Karins Kottage

Welcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with! You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too! I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!

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Madeline & Peter says:

June 15, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Mom, sounds like the retired dream... aren't you a little young for that? He He The thing I really want right now is a formal entryway.
Judy Thomas says:

June 14, 2008 at 11:41 am

I am a new reader (found you through a long process.. lol. I was looking for black and white kitchen ideas, because I want to redo my 30 year old kitchen...and, well... too long a story), but I have added you to my favorites. I've been going back through your archives and love, love, love your site!
Kay says:

June 13, 2008 at 1:29 am

I do have a porch and I really enjoy it. I sure wish I knew how to link to the page on my website that shows my porch...it is the entry called "stress".... anyhow, across the street from us is the high school baseball field; I have enjoyed many games from my front porch. I have also watched many soccer practices throughout the years as well... and I enjoy watching and chatting with neighbors as they walk their dogs, etc.
The Style Sisters says:

June 12, 2008 at 7:44 pm

Sounds perfect, lets do that tomorrow - Your Hubby