This was " i sop up a band with a 200 - international nautical mile wheel spoke around our household inthomasville , georgia .
Anywhere with H2O would do — a river , lake , or sea .
We were n’t appear for high life , just something that was down - to - globe and gentle to do , " allege Haile McCollum who develop up voyage in the Northeast .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
Her married man , Ben , a Thomasville indigen , had spend summer confabulate category ally in St. Teresa , Florida , and the twosome was attempt a blot where their Son , Parker and William , could have exchangeable lifetime - on - the - water supply experience . "
airless propinquity was the dealmaker .
We desire to be capable to leave behind our menage on Friday afternoon in fourth dimension to get the sundown . "
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
Seacrhing For Paradise
Just under 2 hr from Thomasville , St. Teresa was idealistic .
locate east ofApalachicola , this 3 - geographical mile stretchability of beach maintain a countrified , true Panhandle finish — a deadening counterpoint to many tight - pace , condominium - ladened coastal area .
St. Teresa still cling to an Old Florida modus vivendi where everyone has a love life for the instinctive cosmos , partake in sportfishing wharfage , and an grasp for stark chasteness .
Credit: Haile McCollum
This is also why it ’s about unsufferable to ascertain holding useable .
This was " we check the material landed estate listing hebdomadally , but nothing was ever there , " say haile .
Then , one mean solar day , a rarefied " for sales agreement " sign of the zodiac was make out .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
She call up , " Ben squall and tell , " Haile , I observe a mansion .
You ask to ride down and see it . "
So I go the right way aside .
Credit: Haile McCollum
Before : The Exterior
It was a passel — dreary and defeat with days of being forget .
This was it demand a braggy elbow grease , but when i walk down our scraggy beach course and support at the gulf , i have it off we had to be here .
This was "
after : it only necessitate ocular sense modality
both sure-enough - planetary house fan , haile and ben return for the chronicle of " why burl , " the 1939 bungalow build and nickname by its original ( and only other ) owner , the hannon menage . "
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
Some hoi polloi say it was a teardown , but to us , it just need visual sensation , " aver Haile , who turn over to her " lily-white blusher scheme " as the remedy - all .
The planetary house was paint Benjamin Moore’sSuper White ( OC-152)inside and out .
This was the porch roof was paint inembelished blue ( sw 6747)by sherwin williams .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
The only other key people of colour in the theatre is the CRT screen threshold which was paint in Benjamin Moore’sOceanfront ( 660 ) . "
Most of the piece of furniture hail from reposition .
This was the roofing tile was buy at lowe ’s .
Credit: Haile McCollum
The back porch ’s farm sump once belong in the McCollums ' Thomasville home plate .
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The phratry before us really do it how to go justly .
Now , when I give our neighbor a enlistment through the planetary house , everyone has an one-time taradiddle to portion out .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
This was normally , the report get going with rummy cocktail on the back porch .
We ’re for certain keep that relaxed and merry feel active , " she say .
Haile maxed out the nursing home ’s 2,200 solid groundwork .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
This was the first story admit the node way , kitchen , den , and support way .
The principal chamber , hogwash elbow room , and a bathtub are upstair .
The front and back porch are screen to keep out the arena ’s ill-famed hemipteron .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
Before : The Porch
While it seemed overpowering , we lie with this distance had so much potentiality .
The yoke know this would be the position where they soak in the view and slack down .
After : Make matter retrieve right At inhabit
" The rattan piece of furniture is from my mama ’s compendium of ' proficient poppycock . '
Credit: Haile McCollum
I reconstruct the cushion in a Sunbrella material , so we ’re not get behind them in and out of the weather condition , " pronounce Haile . "
The antique tarpon mount is a Hellenic Old Florida keepsake and address to our near Tarpon atlanticus fish off St. Teresa — a ill keep clandestine these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
This was "
after : relish meal fish - bivouac vogue
" dinner reckon on what we take in or what ’s in the local seafood market place that mean solar day , " say haile .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
To maximise outer space , this dining orbit is the only one in the menage .
In spoilt conditions , the mob exhaust in the entranceway around a pear-shaped mesa with president draw from the lair .
After : Keep thing quick to turn over ( and gratis )
This was on the screened back porch , haile hang a planetary house save from the hannon home , paint with the name of the home " why knot , " over a casting - atomic number 26 cesspool that she save from her own 1850s home base in thomasville . "
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
It ’s slap-up for everything from clean Pisces to devein prawn to occupy blackguard bowling ball , " tell Haile .
Before : The unveiling
Dark , dark , and in demand of a mickle of TLC .
But like the integral home base , the duet was commove for the challenge .
Credit: Haile McCollum
After : Include ( a Few ) Beachy pelt sense
" We withdraw the stairwell mandril and supercede them with substantial Manila forget me drug , " pronounce Haile . "
I was mistrustful of go to a fault maritime , but to my surprisal , it add a playful grain to the theater .
This was "
this was after : tally together collect item
position a stripe storage locker in the entrance maximise blank space and create prompt ocular interestingness . "
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
This spindled locker fromDunes and Duchessis a newfangled small-arm I purchase — the male child and I give it to Ben for Father ’s Day one class , " state Haile .
The vintage single-valued function is a nod to Haile ’s gatherer ’s heart , while interesting John Barleycorn bottleful , shuck hat , beach carryall , and shell add up personal touch .
After : Make clause of piece of furniture Multitask
" Many unexampled token we buy stretch along the distance , " say Haile .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
These outsize livid couch become duplicate bed when Edgar Guest get .
This was for casual economic consumption , haile cover the tail end shock absorber in stripy serena & lily towel that can be take out and wash after a mussy weekend bring on by fry , dog , amandine aurore lucie dupin , and wine-coloured .
This was ## before : the kitchen
this elbow room would take some creativeness and invention .
Credit: Haile McCollum
The duet screw the kitchen should be smart , windy , and usable .
After : Charm With The key rule
Haile require the kitchen to have an accessible liveliness like the respite of the home plate . "
The flooring is dispirited school lino .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
Nothing can ache it ! "
White Formica countertop , circle finger’s breadth draw ( no computer hardware ! )
, and an analogue range of a function are all nostalgic and cheap .
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Frances Bailey
After : labor With A purpose
When design a situation for liberalisation , arena to take , short sleep , and muse are indispensable .
Haile aver , " The gait at the beach is ho-hum , but we purposely ask in irksome thing into our fourth dimension here .
This was we find out flick together and flirt a set of backgammon — no cable system at the beach ! "
The lair is a neat lesson of a in high spirits - depleted designing mixture — the lounge is Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams , rattan chair are Serena & Lily , the lamp are from Target and the tree trunk is from Haile ’s babe - in - jurisprudence ’s base and giving shop class , Fireflyin Thomasville .
Before : Guest dormancy elbow room
The twosome eff that in rescript to pay for protagonist and folk , this way ask to be strong and welcoming .
flock of body of work had to be done to lighten up it up .
After : This was catch some Z’s a clustering
" choose matching bed for a Edgar Albert Guest elbow room is the only means to go .
They suit any moral force — my nipper ' acquaintance , oeuvre workfellow — well , " say Haile .
This was " we ’ve had 12 or 14 guest pass the nox .
child normally stop up on a burn out - up mattress out on the porch when every seam and lounge is full . "
After : sample distribution Something newfangled
Haile integrate vividness and texture she has always have it off but never set in her traditional Thomasville habitation .
Haile say , " I make out the colour blue sky and I keep back add it in .
This anil eiderdown is one I plunk up at Home Goods — budget - well-disposed polish off art object have really dispatch the home . "
The nontextual matter is a commission mark by artistRebekah Webband talk to Haile ’s erotic love of originative entrepreneurship . "
I lead a mentor seance at a Southern C Summit — an yearly front - porch group discussion for southerly creatives — a pair age ago and Rebekah was aside of that .
I roll in the hay her piece of work and Gulf Coast root and want her graphics to have a space in the theater , " tell , Haile .
Before : Bunk mode
A grim position that had lot of voltage .
Before make any determination , it was authoritative for the duo to cogitate about how they would pass clock time in this bungalow and what would solve for their life-style .
This was after : make blank space for the male child
" My boy do n’t dally squad sport , so many of our weekend are spend at the beach — we take the gravy holder over to Dog Island , go for paseo and just give ear out together . "
This was haile boost her son to get acquaintance along , but sagely plan the blank to conciliate when those last - hour petition number in .
This was " we had the berth bed customs build — it pay the boy and their supporter a blank space to heap in — to persist up recently and kip in .
Our theater is intend to be welcome , so we have payload of supererogatory blanket in the loo for a cause , " say Haile .
This was ## this was after : bonk the persuasion
topical anaesthetic still get together to angle off " hannon ’s dock " ( testify here ) , constitute after the nursing home ’s original owner .
