Wednesday, August 29, 2012

A Little Black Chest

Since we are kind of home bound at the moment, waiting while all the workmen do their thing, I started a furniture project.  Mike found me an old china cabinet at a junk store, he cut off the top glass door portion, and then got it ready for me to paint.  Wish I had taken a "before" picture.  I painted it black then did a stencil treatment on the two bottom doors. 
 It was a lot of fun and didn't really take me much time.
 
 
 
Stencilling the doors 
 
 
Completed project.
 
 
A closer look at the stencil.
 
 
The mirror over the chest comes from "Our House" a teen boys home in Olney, Maryland.
Mike and several of the boys worked on antique mirrors donated to the boy's home.
This is one the boys cleaned up and repaired.  We are so glad to have it in our home.  A lovely reminder of some wonderful youth struggling to make their way in the world.
 
 
Have a great week.  Valerie

Monday, August 27, 2012

Men Working

The new addition got off to a great start a little over two weeks ago. WOW, a lot got done in those two weeks. Men working everywhere........hammers, saws, cranes, oh my!! Monday through Friday seven a.m. sharp they got us up and going.

This is what the back of the house used to look like.  The addition
 is going over the top of the room with the three windows.
 
 
This is what it looked like with the old tar roof still on.
 
 
Things starting to take shape!!
 
 
They had to use a crane to lift materials over the top of the house and
onto the addition.  Lots of cars and neighbors stopped by to take a look.
 
I have lots more pictures.  They have actually put up most of the siding
but can't seem to upload my pictures onto the blog.  Blogging is such a challenge for the
technically illiterate!!
 
More.........later.    Valerie
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Saturday, August 4, 2012

I should have......

I should have added pictures of the bath before the remodel so you could see the difference.
So here's our 1950's bath in all it's green and gold glory!!