Friday, May 31, 2013

The White Cottage


... was the one that started the American home-making dream. It's literally just around the corner and a confederacy haunt, with mentions of Edgar Allan Poe drop-ins.

For me it's the cute cottage garden with giant knotted mulberry tree trunk and lovely, cosy attic bedrooms - all ripe for pinterest-style interventions. However endless updating jobs, as well as a major roof-raising exercise mean it wouldn't be all cocktails-on-the-stoep and dormer reading-corner moments. So the search goes on...