Like a moth to the flame....

More Inspiration pictures. I guess I am in love with white rooms right now.

These are from Domino Magazine (RIP) from Sept. 06. I wish I could give a linky, but they took all those away (bastards). Anyway, this is Michelle and Derek Saunders apt. She is the vp and fashion director for Juicy Couture at the time (maybe still- I don't know) I don't get how her decor is so calming and fantastic and Juicy is known for putting their name on womens butts.

Enjoy-
This is pretty much my table. Maybe that's why I love it so. I also really am liking the bookcases.

I really love the bookcases in this room. They would be easy to replicate. The chairs too- I have 2 already and if I throw a stick where I live ,odds are good it'll land in a similar danish modern chair.

The back deck

back deck
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This year I repainted the picnic table and my Grandfathers table in red. It has had an amazing effect on the back deck-much more alive and inviting than ever before.
The farthest table was my Grandpas at his cottage. The table could be 60 to maybe 100 years old. It is pretty much held together with metal plates (I installed) and years of marine paint (he painted).
Every year he threw on a new coat of red marine paint (any color as long as it's red" was what he used to say) . When I got the table I couldn't find red marine paint- only blue. Not wanting a blue table, I painted the tops a light tan. It was horrid.

This year I found a gallon of this brick red exterior paint on the mis tint rack at lowes for 5 bucks for the gallon. I had intended on painting my front door with it- then thought better of that. I have painted these two tables and my bird feeders and poles with it though- and I just love it. Just not enough to paint the front door...

More obsession....

I love these too. They are from a design firm - Meyer Davis.

These are in the residential file- this is called Lake House. But, I have to say- every picture that I saw gave me a case of decor envy.

I am totally obsessed

I have found the perfect decor for me. After doing a touch of the windows shopping I found this

There is oh so much more at the above link. I love, love, love this house!

This is what happens when I get bored

I paint a dining room wall. I honestly just wanted to see what it would look like. It needs another coat but I need to let it dry. I don't know how I will feel about it- or how the Mr. will feel about it when he gets back from his trip. I just got really tired of hearing about the primary results on the tv and with the writers strike, honestly there isn't anything on tv worth sitting down for.

It's late and I need to get some sleep. I'll see how I like this in the morning.

please help me!

please help me!
Originally uploaded by thefarmersdaughter

This is the problem- that big empty wall space. I am currently in the process of re working this room. The large orange wall hanging is staying, the kiss painting too, but that leaves approx 8 ft of empty wall. What to do with it? The entire wall is approx 20 ft long (some parts aren't visable in this pic. Any ideas??? And yes, those blonde wood chairs are going to be re covered in something else that matches the new color scheme.....

Christmas home project updates.

This is the before picture- we have moved the buffet to the dining room by this pic and emptied the shelves. The shelves are going to be re purposed in the mud room.

This is the hole in the floor and wall for the duct work to the laundry room. My husband is putting up a cleat on the back wall to hold up the countertop (which weighs about 100lbs. Really, no lie) My son wants to help so much, he got out his "tools" and is driving my Mr. crazy.

This is with the legs. That is the countertop. See the duct? Coming out of the floor? Nice huh. (it's going to have a box built around it. Honest. )

This is it up.

Next is the wall on the right side, trim underneath the thing and trim on the legs. The legs I am going to paint- maybe white to go with the kitchen. The box for the duct is going to be painted the color of the wall. We have to also get a new monitor for the computer. The monitor I have works great but it's 10 years old and HUGE. I am going to use some of my Christmas money for a new, flat screen. Tomorrow I will update on the laundry room project. (some pics are already on Flicker.)

Apartment Therapy post!

We have started on the beadboard backsplash. And by we I mean my Mr. So far I like it alot, and I am glad I didn't tile. Plus, this is a lot less work for me.

We have a 5 ft by 30 inch piece of butcher block that we are going to make into a bar table for the side wall of the kitchen / walk thru area. I have a bizarre floor plan because originally, my 8 x 10 ft kitchen had another 8 x 10 ft eat-in area. When the previous owners put in the new cantilevered living room, the former eat in area became a large walk way. If this house was on one of those horrible "sell your house" shows, some bimbo real estate agent would tell me the room would "confuse" possible buyers. Because apparently possible buyers have no vision or imagination. I would really like it to come back and be friends with the kitchen, but it will take some work. But if it works out right, my little 8 x 10 kitchen "feel' larger, and that's really all I need.

The first picture is the beadboard 1/2 done. The second picture is the before pic. When I took off the trim, there was an old strip of the original wallpaper.

A home "cure" post.

With all the HOOPLA over wardrobe cure, I have let a few projects get lost on the back burner. That, and I have been fighting a cold and the time change kicked my butt this time around. But I am getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday home improvement push, so I have to get my lists together.

1. Finish the paint job on the kitchen.

2. Have my Mr. do the beadboard backsplash and soffit covers. ( a smaller job than it sounds as my kitchen is only 8ft by 10ft and a galley.)

3. Clean and paint my laundry room. I have the paint, it's sort of greying blue. I also have to paint the trim in that room and caulk.

4. My Mr. bought a 5 ft by 3 ft. piece of butcher block from a friend of a friend who was re doing his kitchen. The butcher block is beautiful (it was his island) and will be put up as a bar height shelf/table on the side of the dining room opposite the kitchen. He is putting up a knee wall on the dining room side, a cleat on the backwall, and we have to decide on a leg for support on the living room side. This butcher block is SO heavy- I haven't measured it but it looks to be over 1 1/2 inches thick. But nice, and dirt cheap!

5. I have to haul out all my Christmas crap. There is about 10 big old rubbermaid tubs of assorted stuff. Not all comes out. I don't want some of my glass ornaments broken by my 3 yr old, and I don't want him to feel bad if he accidentally broke one either, so my decision is just to store them for a few years until he gets a little older.

6. I have to finish pulling in all my yard stuff and get the porches all winter ready.

7. I have to do something with what is in the top picture- that's a vintage cast iron bathtub that I got as a "present" this summer . A friend pulled it out of one of his rentals and brought it to me- thinking I would use it in my garden ( or put a statue of the virgin mary or Elvis in it) That is as far as it got because it takes 3 people to move it. I think I am going to put it under those trees on the back side over by my rock garden. Next spring I can decide whether to fill it and plant something that will trail over the edges, or go and put it up on one end and put a deity of some sort in it.