That HGTV Dream Home Is MINEZZZZ

So, uhm...can we talk about the HGTV Dream Home for two thousand elevs for a hot min? CAUSE I WANT THAT FUCKING THING SOOOOO BADLY.

It's in Stowe, Vermont...and that's a bit too far away, but I seriously dig it this year! It's like waaay hunting lodge chic-y!

I gotta say, I always enter the Dream Home giveaways, because hello: who doesn't want a Dream Home. But I've def never felt as much of a connection before to the dreamy homes as I have to this one.

And I mean, how fucking cool would it be if a Design Blogger actually won this? Lemme answer that for you: VERY FUCKING COOL!!!!

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Saugerties...My New Fave Little Town in the Catskills

Ok, I'm sharing this info with all y'all cause I love you. But if all you btchz go up to Saugerties next weekend and buy houses and jack up the price of real estate I'm gonna be PISSED. Except that then we'd all live close to each other and that would be so much fun, and we could go antiqu-ing-n-shit, cause I SOOOOO WANNA BUY A HOUSE UP THERE TOO!

This weekend, Greg and I rented a kickass house right outside of Woodstock with our friends Kevin-n-Carmen.

We drove up on Friday night, hung out and played board games, built fires, got drunk, went out for delicious food, and basically just had fun and relaxed all weekend long.

Only, I kinda didn't want to come back home.

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[AYFKMWTS] Mountain-Top Estates

So remember how I'm kind of obsessed with getting a weekend "country house" up in the Catskills?

Right, so this obsession manifests itself probably once a week or so, and when it does, it generally results in one to 9 hours (oopsie...I couldn't sleep that night) of online real estate research. During my latest real estate porn bender, somewhere between drooling over a cute little cottage in Phoenecia within walking distance of Sweet Sue's and a cabin in Woodstock that was only 45k but had no bathroom, I came across this place.

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I Still Don't Own A Weekend House

Kelly Shimoda for the NYTThanks so much for reminding me of this sad fact EVERY. FRIGGIN. CHANCE. YOU. GET, NYT.

Le Sigh.

Time For A Place In The Country? (NYT)

p.s. We ARE refinancing our mortgage right now for our apt, since rates are lower than Snooki's SAT scores, so maaaaybe we need to start re-funneling the cash money we're saving into a "chic carriage house in the country next to a lake or a stream with a detached garage we can turn into a guest house" fund?

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'Hamptons Out of Reach?' Try This Shitty Town

Ok, look: I can't afford a house in the Hamptons. And I'm a human, breathing person, so duh...of course I'd *like* to have one.

I often think that I'd like to have any vacation house really, only I'm realizing that that's not true. Cause after reading this WSJ article, I've realized I sure as fuck don't want a vacation house in Rockaway Beach.

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