Blog Archives
Our House: Re-Doing the Family Room… One Section (al) at a Time!
Over the past few months, I’ve been working away at re-doing the family room. Previously, it was a colorful, cottage style space, with lots of color contrast…
Where the walls were green on the far right side of the space, I painted them click here to read the rest of the story…
Window Treatments in the Master Bedroom, How I Accomplished Form and Function
All of the windows in ‘Our House’ are treated according to what the privacy and light control needs (function) are for each space, as well as treated for the aesthetic quality (form). In most cases it’s difficult to accomplish all those needs with only one treatment per window. Usually, I have a treatment for the privacy and light control, and a separate treatment for the ‘look’.
In the master bedroom, the Hunter Douglas plantation shutters on the windows are on read more…
Blast From the Past… Our House Dining Room Series: Our House… Dining Room Table… Finally!
Since it’s summertime with more folks taking time for vacation and travel, and well, because I’m in the midst of another remodeling project that is taking all my time and energy, and since I have a ton of new followers that possibly haven’t read about the dining room, (thank you!!) I thought it’d be fun to revisit some stuff I wrote at the beginning of when I started to blog… (sounds like a long time ago, but was actually less than a year ago) anyway, for the next few times I’ll be re-playing the series I did on the dining room at ‘Our House’…
This has been a long time coming. I started to show you a tour of our “garage turned dining room” in January, but then I was delayed in showing this corner because it’s where I had tons of stuff stored for renovations on the “Little Brick Cottage”, but finally, it’s ready to be seen by blogland!
Finally you can get the Read on…
Blast From the Past… Our House Dining Room Series, Interior Window Shutters
Since it’s summertime with more folks taking time for vacation and travel, and well, because I’m in the midst of another remodeling project that is taking all my time and energy, and since I have a ton of new followers that possibly haven’t read about the dining room, (thank you!!) I thought it’d be fun to revisit some stuff I wrote at the beginning of when I started to blog… (sounds like a long time ago, but was actually less than a year ago) anyway, for the next few times I’ll be re-playing the series I did on the dining room at ‘Our House’…
Really? Another Interior Window?
Yep! And I’m not done, there are still more to come. Today’s interior window fits into two of the categories I’ve already started from “Our House”, both the Dining Room Series, and Interior Windows Series…
This is an exterior window that’s ‘treated’ with an antique stained glass window on the inside. Read on…
Blast From the Past… Our House Dining Room Series
Since it’s summertime with more folks taking time for vacation and travel, and well, because I’m in the midst of another remodeling project that is taking all my time and energy, and since I have a ton of new followers that possibly haven’t read about the dining room, (thank you!!) I thought it’d be fun to revisit some stuff I wrote at the beginning of when I started to blog… (sounds like a long time ago, but was actually less than a year ago) anyway, for the next few times I’ll be re-playing the series I did on the dining room at ‘Our House’…
Our House: Strategic Planning, Taking it from Garage to Studio to Dining Room, Chapter 2
Continuing with the “Our House” welcome tour, in Chapter 1 you were left inside this French Door entrance in the dining room next to the antique coat tree. (You can see the edge of the French door just to the right in this picture.) When you come in from the outside, your feet immediately step onto the red rug you can see at the bottom corner of this pic. Then to your right, (or the left side of this picture)
just to the left of the coat tree you see a door with shutters and oversized keys. Let me tell you about that. It’s actually a seldom used door that goes into a little vestibule connecting to the back entry and mudroom. Read on…
Ever Thought About Dressing Up Your House with Shutters?
As I’ve been working on painting the exterior of ‘Our House’, it’s brought me to do some homework, because I am considering adding shutters to some of the windows on it, but if I do, I’ve seen plenty of beautiful shutters on houses in towns we’ve been to in Maine and the East Coast to know that most of the ones I’ve seen around here in the Midwest are not properly installed… and unfortunately can look rather awkward. READ ON…
Our House… Dining Room Table… Finally!
This has been a long time coming. I started to show you a tour of our “garage turned dining room” in January, but then I was delayed in showing this corner because it’s where I had tons of stuff stored for renovations on the “Little Brick Cottage”, but finally, it’s ready to be seen by blogland!
Finally you can get the Read on…
Really? Another Interior Window?
Yep! And I’m not done, there are still more to come. Today’s interior window fits into two of the categories I’ve already started from “Our House”, both the Dining Room Series, and Interior Windows Series…
This is an exterior window that’s ‘treated’ with an antique stained glass window on the inside. Read on…
Our House: Strategic Planning, Taking it from Garage to Studio to Dining Room, Chapter 2
Continuing with the “Our House” welcome tour, in Chapter 1 you were left inside this French Door entrance in the dining room next to the antique coat tree. (You can see the edge of the French door just to the right in this picture.) When you come in from the outside, your feet immediately step onto the red rug you can see at the bottom corner of this pic. Then to your right, (or the left side of this picture)
just to the left of the coat tree you see a door with shutters and oversized keys. Let me tell you about that. It’s actually a seldom used door that goes into a little vestibule connecting to the back entry and mudroom. Read on…
