Cobblers Cove, Barbados

Do you want to get away from it all? Fall is here and the weather is getting cooler. How about a trip to sunny Barbados?

Cobblers Cove in Barbados is an English Country House style hotel, with spacious comfortable rooms, courteous staff and excellent food. A member of the prestigious Relais & Châteaux, Cobblers Cove is truly a wonderful place for a romantic getaway!

Rates: From April 19 to September 30, 2009, superior suite doubles are $465 per night.

Cobblers Cove has a wide choice of different deluxe rooms and suites that are just beautifully decorated. There is no way you wouldn't relax in one of these rooms:

Check out their website at cobblerscove.com

My birthday is coming up. Just saying...

And the winner is....

Many of you took the time to enter my fabulous Magazine Subscription Giveaway posted on August 16th. I'm happy to announce that Random Generator has chosen Mrs Dimple over at Que sera sera as the winner.

Congratulations Mrs Dimple!

Take a look at the original post to decide which magazine you'd like.

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I'll be back with more Giveaways soon!

Beacon of history

Inspired by a local lighthouse destroyed by a hurricane in the 1800s, architect Steve Herlong created an eco-savvy home for his family on Sullivan’s Island. Read more about this home in Coastal Living Magazine.

Dining Rooms with a Coastal Touch

The great thing about beach-house style is that your rooms can be as casual and relaxed as you are on the coast. Feast your eyes on these dining rooms, then invite their easygoing looks into your home. Pictures and inspiration from Coastal Living Magazine.

Mansion in East Hampton

A grand estate featured in Architectual Digest.

See how the interior designer Marjorie Shushan and the architect Francis Fleetwood worked together to make this 25.000 square feet elegant mansion a home. Click the link for the full article.

The Barn

Once upon a time there was a young couple who loved to sail along the New England coast. On one of their sailing trips they discovered the picturesque village of Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. They spotted a piece of property for sale: a heavily wooded plot, threaded with stone walls, with a view of the sea. The young couple looked at one another, and they had one thought: Buy it. So they did.

Of course, there was no house on this lovely piece of land. But the couple had heard about an architect in New Hampshire named David Howard, who specialized in finding, salvaging and moving historic barns—and once again they looked at each other and said, “Why not?” Two years and a fistful of permits later, they owned a 19th-century barn, which Howard disassembled and shipped—literally, since it had to travel by boat—to Martha’s Vineyard, where he and a crew of island craftsmen converted it into a summer house.

Read the rest of the story in Architectural Digest.

Master Bath Miracle

Transformations don’t get much better than this. Witness a master bath’s radical change from a blue and pink disaster, to an elegant and sophisticated luxury bath.

The photos are from Southern Living Magazine.

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