It's that time again. There's a blog party at Kelly's because it's "Show Us Where You Live Friday!" This week is a bathroom tour and since we only have one, that made it a pretty easy selection. When our house was built there was no indoor plumbing. There was an outhouse for potty breaks and a stove in the cellar to cook on. I'm glad I didn't live here then! Sometime before we bought the house, a kitchen and bathroom were added. This is the view from the door. One of the things I loved when we first looked at this house was that the original clawfoot tub was still in the bathroom. Ultimately, I'd like to have it refinished and painted black on the outside and white on the inside. It is perfect for a deep bath and my daughter and dog both love it. You can see Ella's toys stored in an ...
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Saturday’s List
1. We worked in the yard. 2. Went to Hanna's and bought nineteen shrubs to plant out front. 3. Watched my hunky husband dig nineteen holes, with lots of toddler and canine assistance. 4. Bought a sprinkler to occupy the princess. 5. She called it a splishy-splash. 6. Yes, we coordinate footwear and hair accessories with the bathingsuit. Who doesn't? 7. We finally got them all in the ground. Don't they look great? They should grow to be 4-5 feet at maturity and give us a nice little privacy hedge between our yard and the street. 8. We went swimming to cool off and watched Beemer chase tennis balls in the water. 9. Grilled out hamburgers and made home fries at Kamin & Cory's. 10. Remembered why knife safety is so important (Yes, I'm typing with 9 ...
Let’s Get Crafty!
It's that time again, Show Us Where You Live Office Edition! Since technically our office is in the dining room, which you've already seen, I'm sharing my craft/play room. I would call it my office - it is where I get creative and fill all of my painting and design orders. There isn't a computer in this room, which is a little disappointing, but if we moved it here then I would have to share the space with a boy. I'll take a girly space any day of the week! I first blogged about the craft room here and although the furniture is pretty much the same, we've rearranged a little and added lots of accessories. This room is our former guest room future nursery (I hope), but for now Ella & I needed a place to get creative. I bought the two main pieces of furniture at a local ...
The Princess Room
Since this post is long, I thought a gratuitous princess shot might be in order to lure you in. Now... I was thrilled that this week's "Show Us Where You Live" was a children's room edition. Ella's room is still my favorite room in the house and I'd spend time in there over any other room, hands down. Little has changed in this room since Ella was a tiny baby. We've replaced the iron crib with a big girl bed, we ditched the changing table in favor of a kitchen, and we've added drapes to keep this little one from daydreaming instead of napping. My love affair with decorating started early and the fact that my mom should take over for Martha Stewart only helps those efforts tremendously. She and I worked hard the last half of my pregnancy to make the nursery of my dreams. My regular ...
The Room We Live In
Well, since I missed out on the first few week's of Kelly's challenge, I'm going to use the weekend to catch up. I'm skipping the guest room because we don't have one, I'll offer up the kitchen later with a caveat, but today I'm sharing the living room. In our house all of the rooms {with the exception of the kitchen and bathroom} are exactly the same size. Our bedrooms, play room, living room, dining room AND laundry. It is similar to a Craftsman four-square only it's a six. When you walk in our front door you walk directly into the living room with our dining room being in the very center of the house. Above is a picture looking from our dining room to the front door. You'll see our "entertainment center" on the left and the majority of our seating on the right. And you'll notice ...
Coming for dinner?
I decided to play along with Kelly's party this week and show off my dining room. We live in an 86 year old rock cottage, which we love. The day we brought our daughter home we grew out of this house, despite it's three bedrooms, because in 1923 they didn't think to build closets. Our house has no hallways or wasted space, but where it is overflowing with character and spacious rooms, it is definitely lacking in storage space. To combat that problem, all of our rooms do some "double duty" and we have to have lots of interesting ways to display and store things. Above is the entrance to our dining room from the living room. There is a large arch between the two rooms and we treat them as one. You can see one of the original light fixtures that I love hanging in the room. We shortened ...