Candles in the Windows

Greetings everyone! With the year end approaching and Christmas around the corner, my goal was to make sure and get out one more blog before this year is over. As mentioned in my last post, my schedule’s been a bit busier at work these days so I don’t have the time I used to for posting. However, I really need to share an update, because some of the changes are …magical. Kitchen check in: When you last saw the kitchen,…

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Hello again everyone! First of all I’d like to apologize for the long delay since my last post. Each day I find myself busy about my day, then looked up a couple of weeks ago and realized the seasons are changing here. The trees have just begun their beautiful fall show, the air is once again crisp in the mornings and fog rests among the hills and small forested valleys. It has definitely been awhile. I believe it was late…

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Hi everyone. A quick update on yesterday. We bought wallpaper quite awhile back with the vision in mind but haven’t been ready to hang it. Yesterday, with the bathroom finally completed, it was time. We have several rolls and patterns for around the house as these old home used a lot of wallpaper. Since we did not tear down all of the walls to studs and replace it all with drywall, the old walls are far from perfect. You can…

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This one has been a long time coming. To say we underestimated the amount of time we’d need for this bathroom is, well, an understatement. I’ve been waiting to post on it until it was finished, because it’s been “almost finished” for weeks now. It’s a long story but needless to say with Paul’s tenacity and sometimes I think our sheer will, it’s finished! I’m referring to the bathroom downstairs off the drawing room. It was a small and obviously…

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We finally received the call; the cabinets were in! After months of working on the kitchen, planning the layout, the design of each space and finally pushing the “build” button, the long awaited cabinets had come in! It was during this time we actually had family visiting. My mother, son, brother and his wife were all here for a wonderful week. At first we were not anxious to interrupt a family visit with unloading a truck full of boxes, but…

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It’s time for updates! I’m actually a bit over due on postings but we’ve had a busy spring. It’s all good, though! Between family visits and work going in multiple directions, plus delivery of the kitchen cabinets, we’ve kept our nose to the grind stone and have been plucking away all spring inside. Let’s see, where did we leave off? After we got as far as we could with the kitchen until the cabinets arrive, it was time to tackle…

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To continue on from the previous post, here are two other items I wanted to share quickly. First – radiator pipes. These are all throughout the house, painted, globbed over, peeling…all the fun stuff you see in most of our house. 😉 We need them as they are part of the radiator heating system and we truly LOVE our radiator heat. So, what do you do with tall exposed pipes running through your rooms? It looks like based on the…

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Hi again everyone. I ran across a couple of quick things I wanted to share. Not really part of a larger subject but each one a little fun. For starters, a door and a lock. As we work towards final touches in the kitchen, we still have the door leaving the kitchen and going into the dining room. This door we originally decided to continue with the antique white paint but once we stripped the paint down, as it was…

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We are finally seeing the end in sight. Oh we have still have a ways to go, but we have come so far and are closing in. After four walls knocked down, old flooring sealed, then flooring leveled, framing, engineer visit, support beams hoisted, new wiring, new plumbing and wainscoting, it was time for beautiful trim work. This truly kept us busy. I believe Paul said there were over 140 cuts in the wood we placed but it’s up, seamed…

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Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on the blog but I’m now finally back at it. We’ve been traveling off and on this past fall, as well as having visitors and I’ve been working close to full time at my job these past few weeks (its busiest season). Between that and the holidays, I didn’t find myself with much in the way of spare time and alas the blog suffered. But I’m back and rest assured, the work…

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