Cottage Love…and Breeze Update

Happy New Year’s Eve everybody! The MKAs are staying in the ‘hood tonight, partying with the posse. The hubbers are allegedly cooking dinner for the ladies. Mr. MKA, of course, is actually an excellent cook. At this moment he is finishing off his famous crab cake appetizers, which will be served with dollops of hot pepper jelly. He’ll cook the standing rib roast at the P’s house, while we watch the Peach (er, Chick-Fil-A) Bowl. In the meantime, here are the promised Tybee pix, both of the fabulous Dutton-Waller House, which I blogged about Monday, and the updated Breeze Inn. We finally seem to be moving right along with the beach house. The painters were almost finished with the inside when I left yesterday. The Moonlight White walls are going to be wonderful, giving this tired old house such a fresh, crisp look–like white sheets on the clothesline. PS–we actually have a clothesline in the backyard! The Morning Sky blue ceilings are sweet too, and the Shimmering Lime on the kitchen walls–well, it seems a little strong, but I think it’s growing on me. The contractors have started framing up the exterior window trim, and there’s some talk that we’ll have paint on the outside some time next week. In other news, my never-ending sink search finally hit pay dirt. I found a great white porcelain vessel sink which will drop into my washstand for Boomerang Boy’s bedroom. With it goes a cool faucet in french bronze finish. They were discontinued floor models from a plumbing place, so I got an amazing price on them. Still looking for that vintage laundry room sink. I hit two of our favorite building surplus places on Atlanta’s westside today–Atlanta Building Surplus and Midtown Surplus, both in the Howell Mill Area. (Conveniently close to my other favorite haunts, Forsyth and Lewis & Shearin Fabrics and Ballard’s Backroom) The surplus/salvage places have good stuff and great prices, but they didn’t have the right size sink, or the louvered interior shutters I need for the master bedroom. Hope to check Pinch of the Past, the great archtictural salvage place in Savannah, to see if they have what I need. We managed to save all the old louvered interior shutters when we started the demo process at the Breeze, and with some retrofitting, and some primer and white paint, they’ll work for the living room, saving me the killer cost of window treatments there. If all goes as promised, the plumber will start installing tubs, toilets, faucets and sinks on Monday, and the electrician will hang all our light fixtures, and then the floor guys, who live here in Atlanta, will head down to the beach Wednesday to do the final sand and finish. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!