Two long and painful years later, our Florida beach home renovation is finally complete. It feels so good to be finished after frequent bouts of home renovation frustration and managing an ever expanding budget. We conquered our very own Money Pit. (Remember the 1986 movie of the same name with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long?) Exterior Our Florida beach home renovation needed just a few changes outside. We updated the front door and selected a new color scheme. We picked Powder Pink (at 50% strength) by Benjamin Moore for the walls and RAL 6028 Pine Green for the new aluminium shutte ..read more

Picking paint colors for your home is like ordering ice cream at Baskin Robbins – there are way too many choices. In this post we share 5 tips for picking paint colors for your home and show you the color palettes we chose for two beach home renovations. We knew the look that we wanted to achieve in our two recent beach home renovations. Soft neutral colors combined with pared down furnishings to create a clean, cool and relaxing beach vibe. No loud pops of color or dramatic accent walls for us. A soft neutral color palette in our Florida living room. But even after zoning in on ..read more