When Things Come Together!

The disclaimer for this post is -

Wall colors are NOT TRUE!

I was taking these photos in the evening before leaving – and what looks like mustard here is really closer to squash orange.  It’s a hard color to describe, but suffice it to say that bedroom one is 99% DONE! Hopefully reading lamps can be attached by each bed today.  That’s the goal at least – as soon as the other 4 luggage stands are assembled.

Bedding is on beds.  Quilts are on walls.  The only thing that remains to be done is place the zippered pillow protectors and pillowcases on the new pillows that the retreaters are bringing on Black Friday for their “entrance fee” for our first 2-night Beta Test Retreat.

Other than that, this bedroom is READY TO ROLL!

Again, these walls are NOT this color! LOL!

(Isn’t it weird what photography does?)

I had a grand time with Martha here helping me decide where to hang things.

This bed has been in my family for 5 generations.  My great grandparents (Dad’s mom’s parents) had the matching set of twins when they got married.  When they had children, they were slept in by my Grannie and her brother, my uncle Boo.  When Grannie married and started raising her family of 3 boys, both matching beds were used by my dad and his 2 brothers.  When my parents had me, and my uncle and aunt started their family – I slept in one, and my cousin Jeff got the other.

Jeff and I were best buds growing up.  He passed from cancer when I was pregnant and near to delivering my own son Jeff.  And that is how my Jeff received his name.  My uncle wasn’t happy about it, but his heart was hurting. It’s understandable.

(in fact we are re-watching Downton Abbey and just night before last was the episode where ***SPOILER!*** Sybil passes from toxemia, and Tom names the baby Sybil for her mother.)

I slept in the bed, my brothers slept in the bed -

Both of my boys have had their turn with this bed  -

And now it lives at Quiltville Inn.  Perfection.  

The bed lives on!

The two cross stitch floral stitcheries in the oval frames above the bed have also been in my possession for at least 30 years and have lived in various homes as we have moved.  They’ve been in a closet for at least 12 years now.  And here they are, back again, over Great Grannie’s bed.  (And believe me these walls are not this yellow!)

And there is your bedroom #1 tour!

The baskets on the beds hold a bath towel, hand towel, wash cloth and a turban towel for wet hair.  There is not enough room in bathrooms to hang everyone’s towels, so they will be brought back to the bedrooms.  I have the cutest of little chalk boards on clothes pins that folks can write their name on and clip it to their hook so they know who’s towels are whose. There are luggage stands for the end of each bed – still in assembly while these photos were being taken.

Front stair landing.

Pardon the blue tape around the ceiling vent – there is painting still going on!

This is the chandelier that used to hang in the dining room.

It is so much better here!

The open doorway at the bend in the stairs is the front upstairs bath.  I’ll get photos of that later, but I spent most of yesterday scrubbing that hexagon tile floor on hands and knees, chipping off what grout and cement had splattered everywhere from the shower installation.  It was grungy.  It took a steamer, a scraper, numerous scotch brite pads, and a whole lot of elbow grease to get gunk off.  Some of it was paint left from previous owners.  There is nothing like a good scrub to make a place feel more like your own.

The front stair case looking down!

These stairs are more than 120 years old (The first part of the house was built in 1884 and then added on to around the turn of the century.) and I have gotten them as gleaming as they can be.  There are also OLD paint spots that wouldn’t come up no matter how I tried.  Like 50 year old paint spots that are now part of the wood.  But they are clean and I love them!

How many ladies descended this stair case in dinner attire?  All of the fashions of the decades are floating through my mind as I imagine the lady of the house in 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 and so forth.

Top of the landing -

It’s the photo that is crooked, not the quilt on the wall.  LOL!

I love this little seating area.  All it needs is a rug on the floor, and I am in search of the right one.  I’d also like to find a couple of runners for the landings, but they have to be non-skid and not look industrial, you know what I mean?  I will find the right thing.  I just haven’t yet.

I love the room numbers!

The chalk boards for for leaving messages and writing the names of who is in which room.

Don’t you love the Martha Washington sewing cabinet between the chairs?

Another angle.

Bedroom #2 is just beyond -

ALMOST ready.

I’m waiting for a few things to come.

The other open door you see is to the linens closet room.

Life is Wonky!

We replaced the worthless pedestal sink with a simple 2 door cabinet so there would be room for supplies in here.  I have ordered a deluxe 1st aid kit along with extra packets of wound seal powder in case of rotary cutter accidents.  The first aid kit will be found under the downstairs bath sink  - hence the need for a cabinet with doors!

The only problem?  the built in mirror and vanity light are now not centered over the sink.  It would require moving the mirror and the electrical, more dry wall work, and repainting and is just more than I want to deal with.  So “Wonky But Works” Is our theme song and we are running with it.  We will find something in due time, but not now.  Just so happy that I was able to use some vintage glass knobs on the cabinet.  They came as a gift, and I love having a place for them! 

Can you see the lace curtain reflected in the mirror?

The curtains were also a gift!

They were extra long valances, and I was able to get two out of each – SO pretty!

Upstairs baths have this pattern.

This is the upstairs back bath and will be scrubbed within an inch of its life today.

In fact – I hear the pickup warming up, so we are about to head over and I am holding up the process.

Quiltville Quote of the Day

Scrappy Trips quilt pattern found under the free patterns tab  at the top of the blog!

Find that one thing that you usually take for granted and realize just how nice it makes your life!

As I post this, The Hubster is outside blowing leaves off the driveway.  Sounds like he is using his “waiting for me time” wisely!

I can hear the hum of the blower and am so happy that he takes care of this one little task so I don't have to.

What are you grateful for today?