Number 6

 As many of you might remember last summer I gave my kitchen a mini make over. Everything in this room was white, cabinets, old paneling. So I removed four cabinet doors painted the interior black added a few lights and that was good for a little while. Then you may remember in December I started removing the cast iron covers from the fireplaces in the living room, dinning room and one of the bedrooms. Then as you saw yesterday the fireplace was opened in what is now the master bedroom. Now there is an opened fireplace in another bedroom I haven't shown you yet, but I will. It also was just a wood burner and in really great shape when I opened it up. Just allot of dirt and old wood like the rest of the fireplaces. I think someone did the last fire and just closed everything up. But anyway as I said I am addicted to the Rehab Addict. Now if you watch the show she always finds a fireplace chimney in the kitchen. There was nothing visible in the kitchen, but this looked like a reasonable place for it to be. So under the house I go, made the husband go with me I don't like going under houses! Guess what I found? You guessed. The kitchen chimney going through the floor! Now to get rid of that paneling!

 Yes the lady of the house liked blue. So out comes the hammer and the tapping begins, and after three buckets of  old concrete.

 MY BRICK!!!!

 If you watch the shows, Nicole always talks about gaining space and by doing this we gained four inches.

Two in the front and two on the side.

We still have a little trim work to do and I still need to seal the bricks, but a girl has to play. A little topiary.

A bunch of beautiful Camilla.

 Or maybe this simple vignette.

 There is still so much to do, new counter tops, a sink, cabinet doors and the list goes on. But I think my little farm house kitchen is making a grand comeback. Everything we have done to date has been nothing but deconstruction, taking out what was put in the fifties through the nineties. So one more little project off the list and to date this project cost nothing, just allot of time, getting very dirty and being blessed to have the energy to do it.

Thanks for visiting, be sure to come back, you know I didn't stop here!

See you soon,

Sandy

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A Joyful Cottage

A Farmhouse Master Bedroom

Well here it is the somewhat finished master bedroom. I still have a few pictures to hang and a few other things to add (after I find them), but for now it's a place to sleep. The only expense to this redo was a can of walnut stain for the floor, everything else I already had.

Now I know there are no elaborate bed linens and matching drapes, pillows piled high on the bed but I would imagine something as simple as this quilt may have been the lady of the house pride and joy and she would have been very proud to have it on her bed. Just simple white panels and a red and white valance will do. A different lamp and shade, when I find one is in the future.

And Miss Kizzy will be the model of the day. The wardrobe was a curbside find a few years ago. Question how long does it take two women to load a wardrobe in a truck? Less then tree minutes.

The talent show!

The mirrored chest I bought last summer. I had to add the panels on the bottom of the window for privacy since we live on main street.

Now we can enjoy this large bathroom rather than trying to use the smaller original bath in the house.

A good place for a soak after all this work. 

Oh, did I mention? Demolition has also started in the kitchen!

What nut starts all this work at one time? That would be me. 

There is logic to my madness!

When you open anything in this house, there is what seems to be ton of dirt. Remember this house was heated with coal and wood back in the day, farm workers were in and out and I'm sure in that time you never took off your shoes to go in the house. Well just lots of old dirt! So I thought since this room was so close to the kitchen I should get all the demolition and dirt over with at one time. We found one amazing thing in the kitchen after removing all that old paneling and when we removed the linoleum, plywood and felt paper off the floor another discovery. So come back!

So stay tuned, lots more to come.

You will surely want to see my post titled Number 6.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sandy

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No More Green

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Ours was busy as usual with the kids coming home and all the other things that go along with the holiday season. That said we were still quiet busy working around the house.
If you remember my last post, I said several projects would be going on this year. One was taking up this green carpet and exposing the heart pine. This photo was from the first time I saw the house.



This past Christmas and after the fireplace had been opened. I'm very happy with the fireplace, but not the floor. Since we moved in this room and joining bath have been a guest room.

And after about an hour of pulling up carpet, cutting and hauling it to the garage to be taken away.



Really not that bad for the age of the house. You can see the wear patterns and the white square pieces are where the sink used to be. Just a little patching and that will be fine. Remember this was and still is a farm house, so they would come into the bedroom to wash up after work before dinner. The door leading to the bathroom used to be an outside door, before half the back porch was taken for the bath.

I have to say the worst was, where someone had painted something. There were obvious signs that shelves or a piece of furniture had been painted white on the floor. Drop cloth people!

My new best friend. This stuff is great for those lighter stripping projects. If you have a problem area, you can leave it overnight. So after two days of sanding and dark walnut stain, a little furniture moving. Well that's all I will say for now. You will have to come back tomorrow and see the finished room.
Hint..... It's no longer the guest room.



See you tomorrow,

Sandy

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