I’ve got a wonderful Feature Friday for you today. You’ve met my friend, Shirley with Housepitality Designs. She’s a long time blogger and I featured her previous house years ago. She and her hubby sold that house and embarked on building their new forever home in NC, as Shirley calls it. It’s a spectacular forever home and you’ll enjoy seeing it today!
I’ll let Shirley tell you more about herself and her new home below.
Thank you Rhoda for the honor of presenting our new home to your readers!
It all began when we finally decided to “downsize’ and build our forever home, a one-level, 3 bedroom, 4 bath brick home with a french flair that we call Hickory Cottage. We built in a neighboring golf community not far from our former home. Did we downsize? Well, if you consider downsizing by 200/sf downsizing 🙂
A grand cupola greets you as you drive down the long driveway and there is one above the sunroom for the golfers to enjoy!
She has a room of her own in our new Hickory Cottage. We closed on our former home on the day that our granddaughter was born, so leaving that home was truly bittersweet.
Guest Room
Granddaughter’s room
We are very happy with our very open one level home
(with the exception of the office and gym over the garage)
and enjoying making this forever home a home when those
who enter can say, “yes, Shirley and Tom live here.”
Didn’t you love the tour of Shirley’s magnificent and stunning home? It truly is a masterpiece home and I love how open it is and how it flows from space to space. Shirley has done an amazing job with all the interior design and her furnishings are exquisite. I love the entire home, but one of my favorite spaces is the sunroom. It’s just so stunning with those windows and the furnishings. Such a relaxing space with all that natural light!
Thank you Shirley for letting me share your beautiful new home with all my readers! It was fun to watch it being built and now to see it all finished and you and your family enjoying it.
Beautiful and timeless! So happy not to see gray- but use of lovely soft color throughout!
Thanks for sharing, you are an inspiration!
Absolutely gorgeous!!
Beautiful forever home! Love all the chandeliers too, but surprised that you don’t have any ceiling fans in your southern home.
Thanks for the tour Shirley. I love your collection of Chinoiserie. Miss your blog. The old house was beautiful too.
Sorry. What was I thinking “Rhonda”
I love the serene feeling of this house. Can you share the neutral paint color of most of the house? Thank you for sharing.
Hi, Josee, You will need to ask Shirley, the homeowner about the paint color. She’s now just on Instagram and not blogging, so check her out here:https://www.instagram.com/housepitalitydesigns/?hl=en