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coralberry cottage’s expanded showroom inspires fresh ideas BY ROBIN HOWARD | PHOTOGRAPHY BY HOLGER OBENAUS
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Have you ever wished you had a good friend who was an interior designer or architect? Someone who could show you what to do with that weird little landing at the top of your stairs—or help you furnish your octagonal dining room? When Melissa
Hempstead and Liz Baker opened Coralberry Cottage in 2011, they wanted to create a place where people could find unique coastal cottage and English country furniture and accessories, but they also wanted to create a place where
customers could get help solv- ing design challenges. Hempstead is a former teacher who happens to have decades of professional design experience, and Baker is an architect who designs coastal cottage-style homes. They
love to problem solve. In fact, Coralberry Cottage is where my husband and I learned one of the most important rules of domestic bliss: There is no problem that beer and profes- sional help can’t solve. We’d been looking for a