On any given day, owner MacKay Boyer can be found  scouring yard sales, flea markets and auctions. “This has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. It all started when I was a little girl and my mother dragged me from garage sale to garage sale. I loved it then and I love it even more now!”

And there really is a cottage on the bay that serves as the inspiration for Bay Cottage. In 1999, MacKay and her husband Eric purchased a tiny (486 square feet!) summer cottage on the Chesapeake Bay on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Complete with white clapboard, beaded board, painted floors, a screened porch and blinker shutters, the renovation and rejuvenation of Sandy Paws Cottage has been a labor of love for the Boyers. MacKay has filled their special retreat with vintage wicker and rattan, old iron beds, and aged linens--and her garden is overflowing with roses, hydrangeas, and daisies. Sandy Paws Cottage is THE essence of Bay Cottage style.

When not spending time at Sandy Paws Cottage, the Boyers live in Richmond, Virginia with their precocious black lab, appropriately named Bay.