A Post on My Post

There is a floor-to-ceiling-one-of-a-kind treasure shop near the home of my in-laws and its called The Sea Hagg.

I love going there whenever I can. I usually come back home with something for the house, but the last time I was there, I came home with an idea for the house.

At The Sea Hagg there are two massive pillars or posts marking the entrance to the grounds of the shop. These posts are unique and whimsical. They are covered by coral, shells, fossils, sea glass, all kinds of interesting little things. Every time I look at them it seems like I see something I hadn't seen before.

Well, The Colonel and I built another retaining wall and this wall has a post in the corner. The posts at The Sea Hagg were our inspiration when deciding to decorate the post.

We hit The Home Depot to see what kinds of tile they had that would most closely resemble coral. I found some tile I liked, but of course it was special order, so special, that it was no longer available. Great.

We ended up buying some Travertine tiles. We chose to expose the underside of the tile and not the smooth, finished side when tiling the post, this created the more rough, coral-like look we wanted.

We have collected sea glass, fossils, shells, old bricks and shark's teeth for a few years now and this post was the perfect place to use some of our findings. My in-laws and DSIL bought us a beautiful glass sand dollar and glass sea shell that we incorporated in the post. My mother-in-law also gave us some Geodes from Indiana to use for the post (an homage to all of our Indiana roots).

It took about two weeks to complete the post decoration. We had to work between rainstorms.

We are pleased with the end result. Take a look for yourselves.