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Comments (7)Dave that looks all so very beautifully designed. The tree like NOID is beautiful. I am not sure if mine will ever get that tall. Love the black ruffles and I do not blame your wife for having some fun lol Lucy...See MoreMore Progress
Comments (2)Glenda, I could sit down and cry. Not just because the tiller is permanently broken but because it belonged to my mother before me. She used it for a good many years and it made her so happy to be able to garden on a larger scale. A new tiller that starts with one or two pulls will be nice but it won't have the emotional ties the old one did. I'll miss my mom all the more. MeMo...See MorePart 3: More Progress Pics
Comments (3)Thanks! I'm attaching another photo of the closet. Details of the closet: I pulled out the shelf, but reused the supports/skirting. Decided to make the bench at 20 inches high (a touch high for kids) as it allows bags to be tossed underneath. For the seat, I had a piece of plywood cut out, then I used both 2 inch foam and then quilting stuff (and my fabric), and staple gunned the heck out of it. I'm especially proud of my buttons, which I used as I found that the fabric wrinkled oddly over such a soft padding. Now, with the buttons, it looks intentional. Sorry, the photos aren't very good - I'll try again later today to take some. As for the hallway, keeping items under control is a priority - those dressers are actually shoe boxes from IKEA. I also have the plastic variety (called Trones) which are super cool in that you can either stack them vertically or horizontally. I use the shoe boxes for hats, mits, scarves, and, of course, shoes! I find that the plastic ones seem to hold more and open wider. But, given that the area was so visible, I chose to go with the more furniture looking ones. I used two of the shorter variety, and it makes for a nice ledge too. I'll put up a mirror or something in time. Here's the IKEA link: Here is a link that might be useful: IKEA shoe boxes...See MoreMore progress!!! This is the fun part
Comments (21)Yes -- congratulations on moving forward! What a relief, eh? You kindly asked on another post if we were done with our project ... well, we're done for now! Our project was not as extensive as yours (we didn't touch our bed / bath) so we've left projects for later. Honestly, I couldn't take it all at once and also, there's that pesky issue of funding it! Imagine that. So in our family room, which took a lot of work (removing a fireplace and a revolting two-story drywall arch barf-detail and installing a new fireplace on a different wall), we are still without mantle, built-ins around the new fireplace and the windows above it. They (GC) want to come back Monday (8/11) to do it but I can't take it I.C.! I really love having our house to ourselves. And sometime within the next few years we'll deal with our bed / bath: our bedroom will just be cosmetic, well, and adding a fireplace. The bath, however, will be a gut job and as it's a rather large bath (what is with these ridiculous more-recent builds? we do NOT live in our bathroom and it just strikes us as ridiculous all that wasted square footage) I can wait. Besides, the planning is fun! I'm going to include a few photos -- decorating is an ongoing process, and my four year-old really likes his "decorating." He'll flip pillows over and move bibelots from here to there -- I never know where I'm going to find things. But I do love how interested he is and that he enjoys our goodies. That's a good thing! In '02 we went trekking in the Himalayas (climbed Everest) and on our way back, we tootled around SEAsia. (It was a homecoming of sorts for me as back in the early '90s I lived in Hanoi, Viet Nam, plus some friends of ours were living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, so it made it all the more fun to pop in to see them.) Okay, so in Bangkok we made a pilgrimage to my beloved Jim Thompson's house and shop. Oh my god do I love his fabrics! So we bought twenty-six metres of the dreamiest peach Thai silk and maybe this month, most likely next we'll have drapes made of it for the living room. (I can make a story out of anything!) before & after of our living room: We had the walls / ceilings smooth-coated (had been the ickiest, ugliest, tackiest knock-down texture) and moulding galore added -- thick crown (based on a drawing I did), high base, panel, chair, casing -- LOVE IT! before and after of our entry: and our dining room: Can you see the Louis Ghost chair there in the right corner? Its mate is on the other side of the mizuya (buffet). In this room the entrance to the kitchen was moved (obviously), we changed a much wider window into the narrower outswing french doors, we had the built-ins built in (ha ha), the beveled mirror wall and more mouldings! (chair rail and panel mouldings in here as in the living room) Here's our lonely family room fireplace -- I really love our Delft tiles! I haven't taken any photos (yet) of our den where we also added a lot of custom cabinets -- it's like another kitchen in there! I do love storage. No photos of our family room. Or the children's rooms. Or their bath. Or the guest room and its bath. Well, I'm tired, so there you have it! Okay, I won't butt into your pictorial any longer. Thanks for letting me share! I know we have really different styles and aesthetics, but I absolutely appreciate what you have been through and how fun all these projects are for you. I feel the same way and am so excited for your progress! Congratulations, my dear!...See Moreperen.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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