“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”

– Renzo Piano
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”

– Renzo Piano

WE ARE CODY AND WENDY ARNOLD RECENT EMPTY NESTERS—EMBARKING ON A BOLD NEW CHAPTER. JOIN US AS WE RESTORE AND REIMAGINE A NEARLY 100-YEAR-OLD TUDOR-STYLE HOME, BLENDING TIMELESS CHARM WITH MODERN CREATIVITY. FROM DESIGN INSIGHTS TO RENOVATION ADVENTURES, WE’RE SHARING THE BEAUTY, CHALLENGES, AND DISCOVERIES OF BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO THIS HISTORIC SIXTH STREET GEM IN THE HEART OF NUGGETT HILL. WE’RE SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE!

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Before and After: Cottage Bed

Echoing the kitchen post, this space also suffers from our complete lack of before photos. That said, this room is probably the most transformed area in the entire cottage. We added the closet and bathroom where the large – and very strange – opening once existed at the back of the garage. We recently confirmed that this addition was made to extend the length of the garage…

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Before and After: Cottage Kitchen

The kitchen was originally part of the garage side of the cottage, so this was one big open space. Once again, we did a terrible job of taking before photos (a recurring theme around here), so aside from the first image, these are the only shots we have from after demo but before we started putting everything back together…

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Before and After: Cottage Living

Hey MTV – Welcome to our Crib!

You may be sadly disappointed to learn that you won’t be getting my normal literary genius (or, as it’s been called, “snarky banter”) in these next few posts. But I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. We unfortunately didn’t take many photos of the cottage before, but as a bonus, I can tell you what it smelled like as you scroll through the few photos we do have.

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these are a few of our favorite things:

We have a big job ahead of us to make this house our home, but it’s easy to see why we fell for her—here are a few of the historic details that won us over.

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