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Nearing the End

Today I went shopping for the last few items needed to stock our beach cottage.  I was almost sad as I considered that we’re nearing the end of this project.  Even though we’re starting a new chapter of being vacation home-owners, the planning and design process is nearing an end.  

 We now have renters booked for 8 weeks this summer!  If we get 4 more, my husband says that we will have made a successful investment the first year already!!! 

What have I learned in all of this? That I really love doing this. If we can make a “go” of this investment, I’m already thinking of the next one because I love to think ahead. The reality is, 10 Cuttin Sage won’t accomodate our family forever. We can go now and take our 2 daughters with 2 friends and fit very comfortably in the house.  After all, it sleeps 6. In the future, it will be 2 daughters with 2 husbands.  Someday there will be 2 daughters, 2 husbands, and grandbabies (hopefully and God willing)! Therefore we might have to have... 2 cottages!!!!  I daydream about another cottage with 2 or 3 bedrooms and 1 or 2 baths.  I suppose we could sell 10 Cuttin Sage and buy something bigger, but I already love this cottage so much, I can’t conceive of selling it!!! I have a feeling that we are all going to be very attached to it.

 Anyway, today I bought odds and ends like a pizza pan, extra hangers, a teakettle, a pitcher and a plunger (just in case!) I also found 2 really cool bamboo crates with lids at Marshall’s. Stacked, these will make a really cute end table and provide storage, to boot!  And we needed one more end table next to the couch. Marshall’s also just so happened to have a lamp made of seashells that was on clearance. I bought that too, because we also needed one more lamp in the living room.  (At my age, I need light, light, and more light to read!!!)



With a lamp on top of this, it will be cute and practical.




The crates have 2 rope handles which are rustic looking. The bamboo makes them look a little tropical.


Isn’t this a great lamp?  And very inexpensive, too! 
I’m not a very good shopper, but I’m getting better!  This new stuff will be hauled down to Ocracoke in the next couple of weeks and I’ll be able to show photos of it in its permanent home. 

 I can’t wait!!!

Comments

  1. KimberlyApril 29, 2013 at 7:58 AM

    Hi,
    How much do you rent this beautiful cottage for per week? My husband and I usually try to go to the ocean in the fall if we can manage to get off from work in either September or October.

    Kimberly

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  2. 10cuttensageApril 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM

    There are still weeks open in September and October but it is starting to book up. The rate for those months is $1600 for a week, but partial weeks are available then. Blue Heron Vacations is the agent handling rentals for us. Just go to their website, search for 10 Cuttin Sage (which is first on the rental list) and you can view more photos and information. The house is very secluded as it sits at the end of the street and next to the fish camp which is very quaint.

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