128 Napkins

Plus whatever is at the city place.

 

 

 

 Many with coordinating place mats.

 

Yikes.

Maybe I shouldn't have attempted to straighten the linen hutch.

I only threw 3 away.

 

But not these. They are my current favorite.

Something is missing.

 

Blue.

 

I don't have any blue napkins.

Oh, dear.

 

Are you cloth napkin user?

DUNZO

The farmhouse bathroom fix the broken tub  total renovation is complete.

 

 

 It's quite a nice improvement.

 

 

What's next? 

This weekend marked two years since we settled on our very special place in the country.

We celebrated by working hard on farm house projects.

 

The old master bathroom floor tiles came up,



 

 

{they were blue too} 

 

and down went the new.

 

 

  The door refurbishing project came out of its long hiatus,
 

 

and a set of good old fashioned parlor doors, found in the barn returned home.
 

 

One of them by way of a brief career as a cold frame.

 

 

It wasn't until we found the second door and did bit of house detective work that we discovered their original place and purpose.

Down came the cold frame immediately!

 

All it took was a good scrubbing and some paint.

They look charming and serve to keep the heat from the fireplace in the living room instead of escaping up the foyer stairwell.

 

Much better.

 

 

 

 

 



January Projects, Part 2

 

The Farmhouse Master Bath

 

The duct tape over the crack in the bottom of the tub just wasn't working any longer.

So out came the power tools and it was soon in a heap behind the chicken coop.

 

 

 

 

I will not miss it

Or its lovely broken companion.

 

And if we are doing away with those, the related blue sink and it's vanity might as well be ripped out.

I will not miss it either. I am sure you can understand why.

 

And since the layers deep wallpapers of past lives did not come down quite so easily, it seemed just as well to tear down the wallboard.

 

And while we are at it, might as well reconfigure the doorways.
And Update the plumbing since it is all exposed.
Which all of course requires that the floor tile be replaced. 

 

It will all be worth it I am certain.

Despite my dining room doubling as a bathtub instillation staging area.

the new one is so nice and deep, with elbow rests!

And demolition dust ev.er.y.where.

With company coming this weekend.

Good thing there's always reason to laugh.

  Like when my husband said that he was going out to the man-shed to get his wall adjustment tool, and came back with the biggest sledge hammer I have ever seen.

 

Yes, It will be worth it.

This I will keep repeating to myself.

 

 



Morphing the Kitchen