My Cottage Home

JOIN ME for some vintage fun. Welcome to my 1929 cottage exterior bungalow plan interior home in Historic Downtown Kennewick, WA! Many ideas inside and out to share. More than just a home...it’s a life style. Live work play eat drink parade dig bank clinic plant beauty pets friends family and shop shop shop.

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Karen Sullivan

Mira, Malak, Bob and I star in our local Holiday parade. That’s Stephanie Button w Bob. She is the new Downtown Association Director. We love her!

My dear friend and fellow UW Alum Jim Wise turned 75 and had an Octoberfest birthday party! That’s me dressed as a Austrian beer frau! A fun event!

Family and Friends

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Isn't she a beauty? This time 90 years ago, they started work on my lovely little bungalow home with a cottage exterior. She is small and fierce at 984 sq ft with a full basement thank God. The tree to the left dates back to at least 1897 as do the bricks in the fence pillars. 1897 is the date of the first train station here. I have a gorgeous yard too. My little house was boring and unloved when I bought her 4.5 years ago. You can see that is not the case now.

Yard

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Yes, I think this is the prettiest front door of all in Kennewick, WA. Especially with that Husky Purple door frame paint color. The door has lots of panels as you can see. Different textures in the panels...lots of crystalline inserts. So deco.

Peek a boo. Around the old maple tree. So pretty.

House

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1940s tree topper added to my bathroom decor.

Oh Christmas Troll oh Christmas Troll, how lovely are ear muffs and hairdo. I loved troll dolls in the 60s. I had one with fuzzy short hair in second grade. I loved him very much and carried him around all the time in my pocket. I took him to camp and on trips. Hidden in my bag during school hours. I brushed his hair daily. He was named Blueberry. This one here is of the same age and size, and I just had to have him! He was rather expensive. Nostalgia!

Kitchen window! Go go Santa’s from the 50s, dime store quality all flocked and sporting a plastic face and white fur. Very made in postwar Japan.

Holiday

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Despite the camera glare, u can see how well the skyscraper lamps look on my radio. Period perfect. This is dead ahead when u enter my house via the front porch to the living room.

In my front window facing out toward Kennewick Avenue (south). Green slub silk curtains that button on. Gold sheers underneath. So perfecto! Another piece I am just in love with. The lamp was made from a repurposed 70s lamp with added beads, crystals, chandelier fobs and more. No shade tho.

U can see the original green and gold glass lamp in this foto. It is just so beautiful. Chandelier fobs, crystals, beads and more. I put flicker candles in the lamp.

Lighting

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Decor

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before and after photos of a bathroom vanity

Home Feeling

Home Improvements

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people in costumes are walking their dogs through the parking lot with firetrucks behind them

Mira, Malak, Bob and I star in our local Holiday parade. That’s Stephanie Button w Bob. She is the new Downtown Association Director. We love her!

an older man and woman pose for a photo in front of a tv screen at a store

My dear friend and fellow UW Alum Jim Wise turned 75 and had an Octoberfest birthday party! That’s me dressed as a Austrian beer frau! A fun event!

a shelf with various items on it and a santa clause hat hanging from the top

1940s tree topper added to my bathroom decor.

a troll doll with red hair and green eyes holding a christmas carol's sign

Oh Christmas Troll oh Christmas Troll, how lovely are ear muffs and hairdo. I loved troll dolls in the 60s. I had one with fuzzy short hair in second grade. I loved him very much and carried him around all the time in my pocket. I took him to camp and on trips. Hidden in my bag during school hours. I brushed his hair daily. He was named Blueberry. This one here is of the same age and size, and I just had to have him! He was rather expensive. Nostalgia!

christmas decorations are displayed on a window sill in front of a sign that says, all you need is love

Kitchen window! Go go Santa’s from the 50s, dime store quality all flocked and sporting a plastic face and white fur. Very made in postwar Japan.

a stove top oven sitting inside of a kitchen

My 1929 replica stove decorated for the Christmas holidays. Love my styrofoam and metallic glass ball ornament trees just like ones we had in the 1960s. Easy to make but pretty spendy.

a small christmas tree sitting next to a santa clause

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Mechanical made in Japan Santa (he raises his arm to ring a bell) from the 60s and a “visca” light up Glo Brite Christmas tree from the 40s. Visca is a very flammable cellophane cousin not used anymore. Lights are from a standard lightbulb underneath the tree which illustrates the “candles”. Candles are covered with colored cellophane jackets.

a christmas stocking hanging from the side of a fireplace with a santa clause on it

Needlepoint Stockings

Needlepoint stockings took forever to make. I did two of them with Santa on them. A similar one cost me over 50$ twenty years later. Lots and lots of painstaking work, but a great diversion for my then overloaded academic mind.

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Christmas ornament I made in the early 80s. I used to embroider or needlepoint in the half hour trip home on the bus from law school. It helped clear my mind. Those were long tough uber competitive days and doing crafts really centered me.

a group of santa figurines sitting on top of a white table next to each other

Some great Santa’s from my collection. Top right is a chalkware Santa from the 1930s. Extreme left is a Department 56 Santa from the 90s. Year 2000 Santa in white ceramic and just a great fun inexpensive Santa lower right.

an old fashioned sleigh with santa claus and other christmas decorations in front of two framed pictures

Gorgeous papier mache’ Santa about thirty years old. I got him in 2019 at the charity thrift store for 15$. The original price tag from the local flower and design shop was still attached: 149$. Yikes on that price! He is very ornate and made in Czechoslovakia. I had to reglue and replace his accessories but it was totally worth it. He sits on my fireplace mantle now in front of a big round golden mirror.

a group of santa clause figurines sitting on top of a mantle next to mirrors

The Holiday Movie Cottage

Jim Shore Santas Around The World

Some of the Santas. They are awesome! Where would I begin? Just enjoy them in their multitude and realize I have 100s more, mostly just inexpensive ones I bought since the early 70s. Many from my travels too. My Mom has given me many of my fav ones. She even saved the blue Christmas ball ornament from my first Christmas 1955.

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