It has been a lot of fun this past year moving into a new home and getting some recognition for our hard efforts. My husband and I had rennovated many homes including a 1928 Tudor and let me say, it was really hard for all of my family to sell that house and move to the warm weather of Florida, but we did.
Our new home is located on a lake in Orlando and we have really enjoyed working on this project. We started with a color pallet of all shades of spa glass, reminders of my yesteryear on the Jersey Coast and picking up glass that was well worn by the ocean currents. I used to love it when I would find glass in deep shades of turquoise or indigo blue in an age when everything was put in glass bottles and not plastic or tin cans. Well, not entirely but Milk of Magnesia was my favorite glass to find – it’s deep blue and a small bottle factory in Central South Jersey would bottle their products in a deep turquoise color. Then washed on the sea beaches were evidence of glass once used and after a hurricane, it was like discovering hidden treasures. Sometimes I would find whole bottles, sometimes just broken pieces.
Years later, now, those colors inspired me to paint the inside of our home in those beautiful colors. Last month, in April, our finished home was featured in House of Turquoise. Home sweet home 🙂 – here it is.
Our Turquoise House – Pegeen Finishes, Interior Design
