I always get so excited when the lilacs start blooming in the spring! These gorgeous, sweet-smelling flowers are so sentimental to me. Here are some spring lilac inspiration and tips I’d love to share with you! Lilacs flower for only 2-3 weeks in the season, so I take full advantage of their beauty, for as…
Welcome to our “forever home”, a beach cottage overlooking a bay on Washington State’s Puget Sound. We have put a lot of love into our little home which was built in 1920. One of the very first things we did after moving in was to build the deck off the front of the house. There…
Hi, I’m Kim the gardener, decorator, and storyteller behind Shiplap and Shells Here is where I share life in our 1920 beach cottage and Pacific Northwest garden. My husband and I (along with our two pups, Jax and Ollie) live on the Puget Sound, where we’ve spent the past 13 years renovating, reinventing, and adding…