Per request, a few pics of My3dogs home interior
Let me start by saying that I'm a newbie, and that my home is in southern Maine, near the coast. It is an old cape built in 1937, and a modest home of about 1700 sq. ft. I have owned it almost 22 years, and have added to it and updated it so it's perfect for me and 'my 3 dogs'! For those who haven't seen the exterior, here it is. I added the garage in the 90's.
I live on a small river which forms my irregular property line. I have many perennial beds...here are a few. This photo was taken in the spring, so not much is in bloom.
You enter through this 6' x 6' porch. 99% of furnishings, wall paper , chandy in here are from eBay.
I added this half bath years ago. The only bathrooms in the house when I bought it were upstairs and a 'rustic' one in the cellar!
I made the vanity from an old bureau that I bought for $100. Top is a remnant of Delicatus granite. Again, most accessories are from eBay.
Again, it's a modest home, and I remodeled the kitchen in the early 90's! It had a large wood stove in the kitchen when I bought it, 24" of counter space, and dark plywood cabinets. This remodel still works well for me today.
As you see from the above pic, some of the rooms still have their original, and beautiful (IMO) radiators. The house is primary heated with oil, but it also has electric heat, a gas fireplace in the LR that I put in, and the old kitchen wood stove is in the cellar now. I can use whatever is least expensive at the time, and won't freeze.
The back of the LR isn't that 'country, any more, and now looks more like this. The vintage secretary is the largest item I have ever bought on eBay. Hunting toile on the re-covered (but not by me) love seat is also from eBay.
I make all my own window treatments, and this is what is in the kitchen for the summer. A Pierre Deux 'Geraine' bargain from eBay.
Whatever fabric I use for the kitchen WTs, I also shirr on dowels that I mounted inside the glass doors, and use them to cover cook books etc, on the pantry wall in the kitchen.
Whew, I'll take a break and post a few more, if you want to see any....
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoYou all have made me feel so wonderful this morning! It's a modest house, but I still love it and can't imagine being anywhere else - 7 miles from the house I grew up in.
Since I see it's not in this post, although many of you saw it in others, I'll add pics of the bathroom that my carpenter buddy helped me with in cellar in early 2011. The OLD toilet that came with the house, was dated in the early 40's, and it finally started to leak. It was just on the concrete floor, with a fiberglass shower enclosure next to it. I didn't use it, but the guys working on the house did. Jimmy (carpenter buddy) was spending more time here, so I bought a $600+ Toto toilet from a house flipping friend for $75, and when they dropped it off, I just couldn't put that shiny toilet on the cement floor. Here is the before, with the late Sammy checking out the 'water closet', after we took out the old toilet. See the rippled fiberglass that was the shower enclosure?
Everything that went into the new powder room came from Craigslist, eBay, remnant fabric bin (checked silk for valance) or was bought with coupons from Home Depot. What you'll see is now ALL GONE, due to a frozen ("frost free") outside sillcock for my hose in the back of the house, which was on the outside wall of the bathroom, and had been forever. I have new drywall, etc, but Jimmy's been so busy, that only the new floor is done, and the sink and toilet put back in so he can use it til we both get time to re-do the room. The fixtures are all OK, but the tile floor had to be ripped up and the walls were taken down up to about 3 feet from the floor. Here's what it did look like -
The Toto toilet that started it all, rotated 90 degrees from the way the original was, on our very first tile job.
Old oak hall tree mirror from my wonderful late ex-in-laws home in NY. They were going to leave it when they moved to Maine, and it was blackened with age, but when I decided to do the bathroom, it was perfect, so I cleaned it up.
From eBay, a hand painted Brittany oil from 1872. 3 of my 4 dogs are Brittanys.
Prints of antique lithographs of dogs and a wild turkey, as turkeys are plentiful in the yard in the winter.
Remnant silk that I'd had for years became a valance, and the would-you-believe perfect sized stained glass from CL that fit the window we added, as a bit of privacy screen.
Detail of some items on the shelf above the toilet. Jimmy and I both had very strong ideas of what to do in the bathroom, and there were times I wished I'd had some chloroform to quiet him down. :-) The leather stud box was an eBay find, and I just stumbled across it. I HAD to get it, as there were 4 self-professed 'studs' who worked on the bathroom in all, and this is a tribute to them. The ubiquitous Keep Calm...was a reminder to me.
The shelf came from CL, and was taken from an old mansion in the Prout's Neck section of Scarborough , ME, the town I grew up in, miles away from the wealthy Prouts Neck. That is my late Dad's fishing creel, flies that he tied, antlers from a very small deer he got one year. We grew up on venison, pheasant, fish he caught, and fruits and veggies from Dad's huge garden and trees. That's his old shaving brush, a 1880's tole tray, the BOYS sign is an antique metal one that my late FIL gave me, a tiny antique book named Bad Dogs(!), framed repro scrimshaw, and an old Bombay Co clock from eBay.
The re-do is planned and this wallpaper from England has been purchased. I'd seen years ago on eBay and it was very expensive, but last year, I was researching it again, and got it on sale, shipped FREE from England at a fantastic price! I have faux wainscot in mind for the lower walls, but we'll see if that flies. He uses it as a 'reading room' so I want it to have an old library look.
I will also frame this print from Etsy for the room. I originally saw it on a post here, and found it very inexpensively on Etsy.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoOh, and the 6 x 6' entry porch which had the Hitchcock bench (CL) in
it shown above, now has this antique German piece (CL) that I got for
$150!!!! It cost the sellers over $3,000 from an expensive shop in
Kennebunkport, but they changed the decor in their summer place in
Ogunquit and just wanted to get rid of it! LOVE it.
Have to show you the little metal sign also from FIL in there - see the green one? PLEASE REMOVE SPURS, and it's very old and something he got on a trip west. The little shed is one I had made by a man on eBay who would replicate a building and make a bird house.
My shed in the back yard, like the house, built in 1937, and the original owner built furniture in there. It used to be right next to the house, but I had it hauled down to the lower back yard when I added the garage.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoPrettyBlue, Schoolhouse, and Allison - HI! Schoolhouse and I have a lot of tastes in common, and I enjoy seeing pics of her old home, too.
Allison, yes, those hooks are original to the hall tree, the base of which stayed in their home in NY. The mirror was in their garage and I couldn't let it just stay there unused. If I recall correctly, there are square bolts holding the hooks to the mirror, but I'll see if I can get Jimmy to take it down briefly when he gets home today and I'll check. I know I was able to take them off when I re-finished it.
A few other recent CL finds that haven't found homes here yet, other than piling up in my dining room! I got this beautiful walnut antique mirror for $20, and cleaned it up. First pic is from the CL ad.
I took the mirror out to clean the wood. It was held in with old square nails.
Just propped on the mantel for now. Maybe it will be part of my fall mantel decor.
The tea caddy lamp next to it is one of a pair from eBay many years ago. Below is what the original design was after I had darkened up the bright colors on it. I saw a pricey tea caddy lamp, spray painted one navy blue earlier this year and made a faux antique. You can still see a bit of bright yellow under the gold I put on.
While picking up the mirror, I saw this great teak piece and for $75, had to have it. He'd just picked it up at an estate. It had a receipt in the top drawer showing that the owner had paid $310 for it in 2006. It's 58" tall, 24" wide at the base and a bit over 6" wide at the top. I took the pic as soon as I got it into the kitchen from the car. :-) I need to find the perfect spot for it, but something else will have to go.
I really like the heavy patina brass hardware.
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8 years agoHa, Monica - the phone in the kitchen was finally retired in the re-do this past winter. I bought the house in 1986, so it was pretty standard back then. Just got back from doing some errands and am about to go out and prune and weed in the yard. It's a lovely 72 degrees with low humidity, but by Sunday it will be in the 90s and sticky. I took today off, so have a 4 day stretch to do things around the house.
Riley, the oldest at 6-ish of my rescue dogs now, loves to share my CL Hancock Moore office chair with me. He usually only does it in cold weather, but for some odd reason, he' s been up here with me this week, just after I took an annual required online 'ergonomics' class for work. I laughed when he joined me as he and I in the same chair are just the opposite of ergonomic! I held my camera over my shoulder and got this.
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6 years agoMy3dogs ME zone 5A
6 years agoWell, Ladies! I'm so glad that you got together over this old nugget.
Jaybird, a lot has changed since this post, but I still love my little piece of Maine, and my three current doggie kids, who are all rescues.
Riley on the floor, Ginger on the left of the sofa and Rooney on the right. Sadly, Jenny, Sam and Joey way up thread are gone, but the kids are just as loving and sweet.
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6 years agoTara, I was mistaken. Most of the lights I have used recently are Hudson Valley. The kitchen ceiling fixture is Minka Lavery 4175 Harbour Point 21 Inch Wide 5 Light Chandelier
Sadly, I have looked at several sites online and have not been able to find it available now, but keep looking! Some sites say to contact them for something similar, which may be worth a try.
I did find this one, which is similar at Lamps Plus, in bronze - Minka Harvard Court Collection 6-Light Chandelier - Style # N7187
and there are more HERE, of that brand.
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoWell, THANKS! I bought this place in late 1986, and have made lots of changes to the original house that looked like a little red school house, but I know it will be my forever house, as I still love and appreciate it every day.
Who wouldn't like to look out at this from their bed every morning, with my garden shed on the left? :-)
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6 years agoYou folks are almost making me cry! I just brought up my office spring/summer window treatments to press and put up, and these sweet comments will get me through the task of ironing the 10 panels! Of course, Riley, Rooney and Ginger are right here to help me. :-)
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