Laundry needs
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This has been a great washing machine even with its rusted out case. |
Simple beauty for your home
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This has been a great washing machine even with its rusted out case. |
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Loved this kitchen with its granite counters and stainless appliance! |
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Sorry this is a bit dark ~ taken with my iPhone. |
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Good layout for a powder room. Could make an update down the road with new cabinet and countertop. |
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Sneaking this photo in of our soon-to-be home, if all goes through. 🙂 |
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Our new master bathroom ~ lovely as is. |
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The guest bathroom ~ equally lovely! |
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Our current bed ~ a California king ~ has no headboard… yet. 😉 |
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Love love love these floral curtains in Laura’s kitchen!!! |
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Dusty but still intact ~ our 1880’s reproduction Louis XV armoire and my
French handcarved buffet, which I use as my bedroom dresser.
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Looking at our different water plumbing pipes, the new blanket to wrap our new water pump. |
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I’ll provide some links just in case you ever find
yourself in need of one of these:
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Under storage compartment fitted out with a blanket for the new water pump plus an extra heater! 🙂 |
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Sorry this photo is so dark… I could have turned on more lighting (or opened up the aperture…), but didn’t think about it. 😉 |
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What the wallboard looked like prior to sanding |
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…and afterwards. 🙂 |
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You can just see where the kitchen threshold will go over in the very upper right of this picture. |
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This just will NOT move to where I want it, so here is the photo to go with all the talk about wallboard mesh and the little hand-saw, my new favorite tool!!! |
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Just a pop of color from outdoors, since I was out there staining in the overcast p.m. |
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These are the oak planks all cut to size, routered on the leading edge, and sanded and stained. |
Here is our new patio cover!
Our friend came over to help my son and I rebuild our patio cover.
My husband and son took down the old rotted beam on the original front section in June which was falling down.
For the next several weeks, I had been washing, priming, and repainting
all of the usable joists (2 x 10’s),
then this Monday our friend came over and together
he and my son took off the beams closest
to the house and started rebuilding the structure.
30 hours over four days,
it is all built, sturdy, and just needs touch-up painting.
🙂
Oh, and the sky really was that blue today!!!
80 degrees F. and nice breezes coming
over the coastal mountains.
Lovely!
As much work as we were doing,
we debated and then decided to
cover the whole thing and only build out half.
Long-term goal is to span across
the back of the whole house.
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My son Peter helping rebuild the cover and learning some new carpentry skills. |
The remaining front posts may come down
or become a free-standing
pergola-thing.
I still like the idea of having hanging plants
and our bird feeder there
on those front posts!
Project for next year.
🙂
well…
I have had this idea of making
a faux fireplace surround
since we moved to this house almost a
decade ago.
I know right where I will put it, too!
In our living room.
This surround will be a “Ladies’ mantel”
only about 5′ wide across the board.
I located one of the left-over boards that had a really, really,
really straight section between broken
and dry-rotted ends.
That board is now hand-sanded, all burrs are gone,
and I am loving the old look to it!
At our local Home Goods, I found this
corbel.
It is about 24″ long and made of resin
(I think).
It was $22 on clearance and was
originally $29.
Only problem, you ask???
I need a second corbel!
:(((
So, if anyone out there is stopping by your Home Goods,
will you check in the shelving and paintings
section to see if you see
this corbel??? Message me if you find one, thank you!!! 🙂
I will keep looking at ours, too.
I have been haunting ours all summer,
and there were two different, cute, shorter corbels
last weekend, but…
NOT MY CORBEL…
Sometimes something I really want
comes through at a later date.
I ended up with a
second angel for our yard
that way a few years ago.
🙂
Then, last year a beautiful urn came up on
clearance
and now it houses a
lovely, dark pink-flowering
rose bush.
It is a favorite in spring!!!