Cottage Renovation | Fairhope, AL

We bought a cottage. We bought a 1938 cottage.

We are going to renovate a 1938 cottage!

This summer our home life changed when we bought a Fairhope cottage and sold our home of eight years in 2 weeks- SURPRISE!

Our comfy home life as we knew it, was suddenly packed up into multiple storage units and a new chapter started.  We are thrilled to have found this cottage- I think it sorta found us.  For a long time, PB and I have loved older homes. Homes with character and charm. The kind that has a story to tell.  It's taken months to plan, draw, meet, talk, design, email with our fab team at Walcott, Adams and Verneuille (a local architect firm). Rebecca Bryant has been our sounding board all along helping us design and work with this house to modernize it for our family while retaining its original form. I never would have dreamed we'd take on a project like this one.

The plans are drawn, the builder has started, it's progressing before our eyes. I've made a personal goal to keep a cottage renovation update on my blog and to photographically capture the metamorphosis.  I have some back writing to catch up. This is my start-  Nov. '12.

Conversion (start of a photoblog)

Conversion- a change in the form of a thing. I'm starting a new adventure in my photography journey. A few years ago, I started a personal blog to highlight our happenings with our family of 5. Mainly to keep all the grandparents informed of our musings http://bullingtoncircus.blogspot.com/ . A highlight of that blog was writing and uploading pictures while on a family vacation in Europe (summer 2010). I was still green to the blog thing. My passion for photography was not though. I stayed up way past my bedtime many nights on that trip so excited to share our adventures while abroad. It wasn't simple. Often the speed of the internet service wherever we were roosting dictated my entries. I also found myself frustrated with the limitations to the style/size/arrangements of my images on the entries.  Then a year ago, I started a photography website. Rather static, it was a proud display of my work. This past summer (2012), we again had the privilege to travel in Europe. This time, I knew my challenges of blogging and showing off personal photography was not conducive to enjoying the family vacation. I needed to simplify the process while soaking up the trip! So a new blog was born http://kellybullingtonphotography.wordpress.com/ . This was created for the ease of using an iPhone to take pictures and blog easily. Of course it wasn't the only camera with me. But, it allowed us to share our trip quickly with family and friends.

So here I am now. Realizing that I need to hone my blog skills and have more space for highlighting my photography journey. I've converted my static website to a photoblog. I'm venturing out and look forward to the surprises it brings my way. The hardest part so far has been the first entry.

So with the hardest part behind me I say, "bon voyage"!