About
We’re Kevin and Layla Palmer, we live in the deep South. (Prattville, Alabama to be exact!), and like our header says, our blog is our playground and passion pushes our swing!
We named our blog, “The Lettered Cottage” because of the passion we share for writing, and our love of fixing up homes. It also seemed sort of approriate that the first letter of each word is “T”, “L”, and “C”, because our little cottage-that-could, definitely needs lots of tender lovin’ care.
In 2008, we left our day jobs to chase our dreams, and even though the ride has been pretty bumpy along the way, we’re determined to stay the course, and design a life we love!
We enjoy shooting interior photography for national home magazines and HGTV.com, reading & writing books, making music, and documenting our “renoventures” here on our blog.
We teamed up with an awesome production company and shot a pilot episode for HGTV in September of 2011, but unfortunately we found out it wouldn’t go to series in February of 2012.
If you’re new here you may want to start by checking out some of our most popular pages and posts.
Pick my Presto (Reader submitted room makeovers using photoshop)
You can also check out our archives page to see a list of all our posts.
We love using Facebook and Twitter, too!
We usually post three to five times every week. You can subscribe via RSS if you’d like to get an email when a new post is up!
Our blog is a custom design by Bethany Hway, who we highly recommend! Our post font is Georgia and our cursive font is Sunshine in my Soul. The Lettered Cottage is a self hosted blog through WordPress.org and we can’t say enough good things about Shauna Callaghan who helps us with all things WordPress!
We can be reached at laylapalmer@aol.com or kevinpalmer41@gmail.com.
There’s excitement in not knowing what you’re going to reveal about yourself, or your surroundings, from one day to the next- and our hope is that one day we can look back at all these posts and smile big about days gone by. And in the meantime, we hope you’ll be inspired to laugh, learn and live it up with us, too!