tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4341372360611753192024-03-14T05:27:32.216-07:00Split, InfinitumWe love our humble little house so much, we created a fan page for it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-6645689439078465972023-05-27T20:34:00.006-07:002023-05-27T20:42:04.873-07:00Inching Along on the Sunroom Addition<p>These photos are a few weeks old. We're thrilled at how well the tiling came out. (And with a weather forecast of 90 degrees to orrow, we're grateful for the mini-split installation.) The purple chair is a vintage Thonet Club Tub and we've had it in two other rooms before this one. </p><p>
Since then, we had the bookshelves painted and we're waiting on some construction and electrical work. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-9616856031786121042023-04-25T21:53:00.003-07:002023-04-25T21:57:57.946-07:00It’s Starting to Come Together<p>(and not a minute too soon... all the furnishings are bought and stored all around the house. Things are so chock-full that I half-joke that my home feels like an episode of "Hoarders", just without the mold and flattened rodents.) </p>
<h3>Taping and Mudding</h3>
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<h3>Priming</h3>
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<p>Floor tiling has just started; hopefully, some of the furniture and book boxes can be migrated in next week.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-6504053971727488852023-04-25T21:24:00.002-07:002023-04-25T21:25:42.939-07:00Mood Board for the SunroomHere's what we're loving these days as inspo for our new room.(Yup, we're all about the moody coastal look.)
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Final size will be about 13' X 22')
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<P><I>Above: We're building right on top of our existing patio.</I></P>
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<P><I>Above: It isn't easy being green...</I></P>
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<P><I>Above: Take a peek inside.</I></P>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-80543482737870240142019-02-16T05:35:00.003-08:002019-02-16T05:36:21.748-08:00Announcing "The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Home Gym for Old Ladies and the Men Who Love Them"
<p>Our first project for 2019. We bought more brown draperies and cared a home gym out of more cellar space. (Due to tax and zoning reasons, we chose to keep this level semi-finished in all its 1970s paneled-wall glory):</p>
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<p>We call this room the "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Home Gym for Old Ladies and the Men Who Love Them" (apologies to Derek Zoolander) because we hope to be as active and feisty as Justice Ginsburg at her age.</p>
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<p>This door mirror is surprisingly useful and reflects light from the small window opposite it.</p>
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<p>We blocked off the plumbing closet to forget that there's a sewage ejector pump behind the doors.</p>
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<p>In case of emergency, break glass. (Some memorabilia from Lynne's Halloween 2018 costume.)</p>
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<p>These black lace beauties are exactly the "lifting gloves" you'd expect in the "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Home Gym for Old Ladies and the Men Who Love Them".</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-13553756345925658322018-12-09T06:38:00.004-08:002023-04-25T21:30:02.473-07:00The Reiki Room - Our Private Space for Energy Work and Healing<p>This past spring, we updated all the basement lighting. (No more flickering florescent tubes!). We then installed a Reiki Room in one part of it, which encouraged me to get my Usui Reiki Master attunement.</p>
<p> The space is never going to win any design awards, because the only unifying feature is that it's all stuff I love and which has great personal meaning to me. The energy healing space also happens to be one of the most comfortable rooms in the house, because it's not intended for public use.</p>
<p><b>2023 UPDATE: There have been some refinements to this room over the past few years. Updated photos to follow in new post!</b></p>
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<p><i>Above: Room at a glance. The light in the corner has a purple bulb in it and all the lights are dimmable. The silk scarf over the mirror is from my bellydancing years. The floor rug was bought off overstock.com and turned out to be even prettier than the sellers' picture.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: Hanging rocks and an over-sized wooden rosary. (We're very ecumenical...)</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: a hand-made lotus pottery bowl bought a few years ago at an antique shop while on vaca, filled with sand for "drawing" in.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: a TJMaxx dream catcher, which I later embellished with ribbon, yarn, and shells</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: Another embellished dream catcher.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: I got this wing at a Native American powwow. It does a great job sweeping away negative energy.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above:</i> A HomeGoods garden praying figurine, over a bowl of crystals, animal teeth, and other goodies </p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-22080450612731781302018-12-09T05:24:00.000-08:002018-12-09T05:24:17.199-08:00A New England - Style Organic Modern ChristmasHere's what the living room looks like this year:
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<p><i>Above: The huge plastic fortress is our Yorkie's pen.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: We went with a birds motif since we have so many of them around the house. Unfortunately, the dog thinks the snowballs are new toys for him, so we have to watch them closely.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: The flowers here and in the tree photo are recycled form when we had full-size trees in the house.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: Stockings stuffed with floral picks. The cotton accents are repeated throughout the room. </i></p>
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<p><i>Above: The squirrel wreath, dedicated to our resident rodent catcher. More cotton accents.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: Coffee table, with Indian glass ball ornaments in a large bowl.</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: We like to mix it up a little. Fortunately, wood goes with everything!</i></p>
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<p><i>Above: And what Christmas decor would be complete without a thrifted clay Jesus as Rodon's "The Thinker", inside a tiki hut?</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-45294956954325800292015-11-03T12:52:00.000-08:002015-11-03T12:54:20.310-08:00Keeping Busy<p>We've had a pretty past few months, but none of it has been terribly glamorous. </p>
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<ul>
<li>We had some trees taken down in our yard, to hopefully prevent the tree falls we had last winter. The outside looks like a tornado went through, because we elected to do the cleanup ourselves. (Something we'll likely never do again.) </li></p><p>
<li> We also replaced the rest of our 30+-year old windows a few months back. We heat our house primarily with electricity, so we're hoping this will help lower the bills.</li></p><p>
<li> We're replacing a few 1970s square recessed lights.</li></p><p>
<li> We ordered a replacement bathroom light/fan, to replace one that sounds like a jet plane.</li></p><p>
<li> The Halloween decorations went up (and came back down this AM)</li></p><p>
<li> I hit the 80% off sale at Michaels and found fake flowers in just the right shades for the "new to us" tree we'll be putting up for the first time in the family room right after Thanksgiving.</li>
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<p>As it write this, the weather is in the 70s and I spent a few hours outside today doing fall cleanup work. I smell like wet leaves and couldn't be happier. While it's a lot of work, it makes me feel truly appreciative for all we have.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-18687977028350430852015-08-09T19:07:00.003-07:002023-04-25T21:19:21.149-07:00Return of the Art LampsPicked up a pair of lamps at a thrift shop last summer for the sunroom L hopes to build someday. The backstory we were told by the shop was that they were donated by a prominent Vermont art gallery. (Obviously, they were sold without the vintage shade shown here. <g>)
After a year in storage (and no start date for the sunroom in sight), L thought it was time to get some use out of them. One is in her home office/study (see below); the other is in the family room.<div><br>
<p><b>2023 UPDATE: Wait 'til you see how we'll be repurposing these lamps in the sunroom that we're actually building now! I'd forgotten that they were originally purchased for that room, so I have no guilt about moving them around.</b>
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<p> L and D "cherry-picked " our favorite piece, then realized it was part of a set. Not wanting to breakup the set, we bought both:</p><p>
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<p> On our way out of the store, one of the stores owners told us a fascinating story about how the pieces ended up in the shop. (We have no idea if the story is true, but if it is, L might push for some estate law reform.) According to the store employee, someone died intestate, after spending years in a nursing home. The person had no relatives, but a household of belongings in various storage units. Allegedly, the lawyer overseeing the estate hired a few kids to cart everything to the dump. The kids, hired by the hour and nearing the end of their shift, refused to stop loading their truck so that the someone else could check its contents. The story got a bit murky here, somehow involving Craigslist. At some point, the consignor acquired the items and brought them to Chichester. The store employee told us that some collectors of African art had been in to see the pieces and were expected back to pickup some up. We were told that the two statues we bought were the two most important pieces, that we had a "good eye," and that they dated to the 1930s or 1940s. D and I just happened to get there first.</p>
<p> As soon as D and L put the two statues they bought in our family room, we realized we wanted more. We went back to the shop as soon as it opened the next day and bought two more wooden statues. (The tall one is D's birthday gift to L.) It took a bit of convincing for L to agree to buy the one with the grass skirt, because it looked too much like the Tiki guy in the old 1970s Karen Black TV movie "Trilogy of Terror."</P>
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<p> While we didn't take the entire collection, we hope the former owner would be happy that some of the pieces went to a home that appreciates them and will take good care of them.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-50236317503609526172015-07-12T10:40:00.000-07:002015-07-12T10:40:02.989-07:00Laundry Room Refresh, the RevealHere's lovely and tiny laundry room:
Photos, top to bottom: View from the family room, with washer, dryer and shelves behind the "shower" curtain; toilet and sink; detail of painted shelves; sink detail.
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<div>I've also been busy painting the new baseboard:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5778fat1auKAs0E93CE47YahvaF42NVK12fY6LTvS9bInA-9zFnnoiXNqfYItvhI7H32JqaZ0n6S6DE0nBmnexNP7QJ_d9gtxXXkF4_axYa4cgq5wVaWLZJp0mDELocD8vhFXBuYDtkFJ/s640/blogger-image--640740201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></p><p><center><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5778fat1auKAs0E93CE47YahvaF42NVK12fY6LTvS9bInA-9zFnnoiXNqfYItvhI7H32JqaZ0n6S6DE0nBmnexNP7QJ_d9gtxXXkF4_axYa4cgq5wVaWLZJp0mDELocD8vhFXBuYDtkFJ/s640/blogger-image--640740201.jpg"></a></center></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-54834692776389700322015-04-12T15:44:00.001-07:002015-06-17T08:08:32.102-07:00Slow Moving on the Laundry Room RenoVanity on order; chose the countertop; waiting for tile guy to tell us his availability. Moved our attention outside for some spring cleanup.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-84660572770538775182015-03-22T06:20:00.002-07:002015-06-17T08:08:32.107-07:00Laundry Room Refresh ContinuesSample wall painted. New wooden art hung. Flower in corner. Tossed down a few tiles to preview what the finished floor will look like.</p><p>
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And here's what it looks like after chair rail and baseboards removed, shelves, mirror, and bath hardware uninstalled, and two coats of primer added:<p><p>
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With any luck, the "tenement" look shouldn't last too long. After another coat or two of primer, I'll be painting the room the same color as the upstairs full bath and rehanging the hardware and artwork. After that, we'll be tiling the floor and replacing the sink and toilet. The hardest part so far is finding an 18 inch wide vanity that doesn't look really cheap: we may have to build or convert a piece of furniture to fit.</p>
<p>The washer and dryer still work well, so we're keeping them for now. Once they wear out, we'll add a stacking washer/dryer and configure some cabinet space around it.</p>
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<p><b>3/17/15 UPDATE:</b> We purchased some tile and are looking at using a bar sink, so we can go even smaller with the vanity. Unfortunately, the painting's behind schedule as I haven't been able to do the other two coats of primer yet.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-5646654142183347832015-01-04T15:31:00.000-08:002015-01-04T15:32:41.063-08:00On Thrifting
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This year, we decided to go in a totally different direction: all the way to Bollywood! (And yes, I know that most Indians are Hindu or Buddhist.) The bright warm colors go great in our living room and it's a color scheme that can be lived with even after Christmas.</p><p>
We started again with the artificial tree,</p><p>
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then added artificial flowers and decorations of all sizes. I got the "silk" flowers for 80% off at an end-of-the-season , because thought they were "fall" colors. The sunflowers with the sparkly center work great with the Indian theme, as does the Indian mercury glass balls in two sizes.</p><p>
(For best results, sort your ornaments before hanging and then hang all of one kind of ornament at once, working your way all around the tree. Vary sizes and shapes. Don't forget the back of the tree, especially if it's what you see out the window.)</p><p>
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We even found a matching soft orange poinsettia at Wal-Mart!</p>
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Next year, I'll be working more at the top of the tree, adding branches and/or feathers. Other than that, we're hoping to enjoy this look for years to come.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-39480906027420307602014-10-15T05:01:00.001-07:002014-10-15T05:02:16.390-07:00More Work to the ExteriorClapboards and rain gutters installed. Still have to paint the clapboards yellow and replace the shutters:</p><p>
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This is about noontime:</p><p>
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By the end of the first day, all six windows were in place and I'd bought five replacement baseboard heaters. (It made sense to do all the energy-efficient changes at once...) More to come...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-22376746985078586292014-08-18T08:54:00.003-07:002014-12-11T02:49:22.363-08:00Exterior Repair, Part 1Simply removing the front entryway overhang </p><p>
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got a bit more complicated than we thought, when we found significant water damage:</p><p>
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At the contractor's advice, we contracted our insurer....</p>
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<p><b>UPDATE:</b> Here we are at the end of Day 1:</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-69626551245342865952014-07-06T19:24:00.005-07:002014-07-07T03:45:16.709-07:00Man With Power ToolsDarren decided to take down some dead trees:</p><p>
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<p>We'll have enough firewood to last all summer....</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434137236061175319.post-55490085145686896052014-03-02T17:44:00.001-08:002014-06-06T10:08:21.030-07:00Yes, Formica... You Got a Problem With That?One of the tensions in remodeling a "mid-century modest" house is wanting to create a jewel box without outbuilding the neighborhood. Our countertops and cabinets are late 1970s and we have no desire to replace them anytime soon. That means that the countertop we want to put in between the two rooms shouldn't be marble or granite. </p><p>
Here's the spot we want to put it:
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We decided that a 1970s split just calls out for Formica, so here's a preview of what we're thinking of installing:
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