The Bee Cottage Story
How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness
Published on 7. July 2015
160 pages
978-1-63220-864-4 (ISBN)
Description
Inspired by Frances Schultz's popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house, Bee Cottage, what began as a decorating book evolved into a memoir combining the best elements of both: beautiful photos and a compelling personal story.
Schultz taps into what she learned during her renovations of Bee Cottage-determining how each area in the house and garden would be used and furnished-to unravel the question of how a mature, intelligent, successful woman could have made such a mess of her personal life. As she figures out each room over a period of years, Frances finds a new path in life, also a continual process. She comes to learn that, like decorating a home, our lives must adapt to who we are and what we need at different points along the way.
The Bee Cottage Story is part memoir, part home decorating guide. Frances discusses the kinds of useful, commonsense design issues that professionals take for granted and the rest of us just may not think of, prompting the reader to examine and discover her own "truth? in decorating-and in her life.
Schultz taps into what she learned during her renovations of Bee Cottage-determining how each area in the house and garden would be used and furnished-to unravel the question of how a mature, intelligent, successful woman could have made such a mess of her personal life. As she figures out each room over a period of years, Frances finds a new path in life, also a continual process. She comes to learn that, like decorating a home, our lives must adapt to who we are and what we need at different points along the way.
The Bee Cottage Story is part memoir, part home decorating guide. Frances discusses the kinds of useful, commonsense design issues that professionals take for granted and the rest of us just may not think of, prompting the reader to examine and discover her own "truth? in decorating-and in her life.
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The Bee Cottage Story
How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness
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07/2015
Skyhorse Publishing
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Frances Schultz is a contributing editor for House Beautiful magazine and regularly writes for Veranda and travel website Indagare. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal and Town & Country, and has been a guest on the Today Show. She is author and co-author of several books on decoration, design, and entertaining, including Atlanta at Home, Atlanta at Table, Ryan Gainey's Well Set Table, Christopher Lowell's The Hassle Free Host, Michelle Rago's Signature Weddings, A House in the South, and the popular The Bee Cottage Story.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Newell Turner
- 1 A House, A Heartbreak, and How Did I Get Here?
- 2 Childhood to Child Bride
- 3 The Single Years
- 4 Nowhere Good
- 5 The Big C
- 6 Mama
- 7 Daddy
- 8 Buying a House in the Hamptons
- 9 A New Beau, an Old Pattern
- 10 Another Loss
- 11 Finding the House, Losing the Marriage
- 12 Seeking a New Path
- 13 Detour
- 14 How Bee Came to Be
- 15 You Have to Start Somewhere
- 16 First Steps: From the Outside In
- 17 The Living Room
- 18 The Garden Room
- 19 Tom Samet to the Rescue
- 20 The Dining Room and Library
- 21 The Kitchen and Butler's Pantry
- 22 The Master Bedroom
- 23 The Study and Sometimes Guest Room
- 24 The Guest Suite
- 25 The Pergola
- 26 The Garden
- 27 Collections
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
