After #1

The floor is finally done. All the tools are gone, the sawdust is over ! Yeah ! I love how neat and clean it looks. I think we will go with my minimal look for now. The porch doesn't have heat so during the winter it is mostly decorative. The rest of the year it's just a nice place to sit and watch the world go by. All year round now it will be a nice entrance to our home.

Befores no Afters

We have started a bunch of projects. Today I took the wallpaper off the downstairs bathroom walls. It's been on a good 25 years and was beginning to look dingy. I think this should be cleaned up before the holidays.

Then one of the candles on the chandelier burst into flames the other day. We need a light over the table for holiday dinners. I should go look for a new on before I decide to have it fixed - you never know I might like something better. While I'm at the lighting store I should get a new light for the bathroom - don't you think.

My husband is finally putting the new floor down on the front porch. It looks great but now maybe we need some new stuff for the porch ???? And we need this done before anyone arrives for holiday dinners. Maybe not furnished but at least no tools left over.

I don't know how we got into so much. It makes me dizzy. I didn't show the sweater that I'm putting together for a customer that I also knit. Also almost done. So here I am, a little this, a little that. I'm looking forward to showing you the afters.

Without a Car Part 2

This is the other project that moved along during my "no car" time. The bulletin board came from Home Goods and was $39.99. With a coat of paint I now think it looks like the ones I've admired for years from Ballard Designs. The chest came with our house 30 years ago. It was white and we used it as a toy box and later as a place to store all the sports equipment and to sit on while we got our boots on.

Now it has a new life as a file cabinet. It has helped with my organization of home bills and All Stitched Up information. I also like that it's had so many lives. When we sanded it off we saw that it had also been green and red. I have one more project in the office - to finish painting the doors and touch up the wall and ceiling. Sadly that's going slowly. I'd like to blame it on the fact that my car is working but......

Almost Done

All of our renovations are almost done. They came out wonderfully. Such great improvements to our day to day life. Now I have lots of painting and my husband has a new front porch floor to install. Having a little work done sure inspires more work and more decorating. I'm happy I have the time to do it and enjoy all the changes.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is a big day around here. We are getting new tub, toilet,sink and tile in the tub and on the floor. We redid the bathroom about 20 years ago and the recently we put the bead board on and painted.

The bathroom has served us well but behind the scenes something has gone wrong and we've had a big leak into the downstairs office. So the project goes on to repairs to the closet and partial new ceiling in the office. As long as the contractor is here I am also having him put a door in the pantry in the downstairs bathroom. One thing always leads to another around here.

I am so excited I'm thinking of new color for the bathroom and curtains and shower curtain. Later I'll have before pictures of the downstairs bathroom because after the closet door goes on the wallpaper is coming off and that room is getting painted too. I feel like I'm having my own HGTV show around here!