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Inspired by Frances Schultz’s popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house, Bee Cottage, what began as a decorating book evolved into a memoir combining the best elements of both: beautiful photos and a compelling personal story.

Schultz taps into what she learned during her renovations of Bee Cottage—determining how each area in the house and garden would be used and furnished—to unravel the question of how a mature, intelligent, successful woman could have made such a mess of her personal life. As she figures out each room over a period of years, Frances finds a new path in life, also a continual process. She comes to learn that, like decorating a home, our lives must adapt to who we are and what we need at different points along the way.

The Bee Cottage Story is part memoir, part home decorating guide. Frances discusses the kinds of useful, commonsense design issues professionals take for granted and the rest of us just may not think of, prompting the reader to examine and discover her own “truth” in decorating—and in her life.

Frances Schultz is a contributing editor for House Beautiful magazine and regularly writes for Veranda and travel website Indagare. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal and Town & Country, and has been a guest on the Today Show. She is author and co-author of several books on decoration, design, and entertaining, including Atlanta at Home, Atlanta at Table, Ryan Gainey’s Well Set Table, Christopher Lowell’s The Hassle Free Host, Michelle Rago’s Signature Weddings, A House in the South, and the popular The Bee Cottage Story.