Things are progressing
very slowly here this week.
I thought I would be able
to show you our
new kitchen stove today,
but the schedule got moved out
so don't know when
it will arrive exactly.
The project
that I told you came out of the Captain's
five little words
has been started
but still a slow process.
So,
while we are waiting,
I thought I'd take you
back to the past...
very slowly here this week.
I thought I would be able
to show you our
new kitchen stove today,
but the schedule got moved out
so don't know when
it will arrive exactly.
The project
that I told you came out of the Captain's
five little words
has been started
but still a slow process.
So,
while we are waiting,
I thought I'd take you
back to the past...
...and show you
what the Cottage looked like
when we first took possession.
I wasn't blogging then and
it seems like pictures
were not a priority,
so I don't have a whole lot to show
but I can tell
you how things were.
what the Cottage looked like
when we first took possession.
I wasn't blogging then and
it seems like pictures
were not a priority,
so I don't have a whole lot to show
but I can tell
you how things were.
The guest room
was wallpapered in
green leaves and red berries
with avacado green wall-to-wall carpeting.
(Hmm, sounds like it might have made
a pretty Christmas scene).
We stripped off the wallpaper and
took up the carpet.
The original fir flooring
looked like an area rug
had been placed and
then painted with mustard gold paint
around the edges of it.
We stripped the paint and
finished the floor and
that is the floor that we have today.
We painted woodwork,
re-papered the walls and
now it looks like
the above picture.
was wallpapered in
green leaves and red berries
with avacado green wall-to-wall carpeting.
(Hmm, sounds like it might have made
a pretty Christmas scene).
We stripped off the wallpaper and
took up the carpet.
The original fir flooring
looked like an area rug
had been placed and
then painted with mustard gold paint
around the edges of it.
We stripped the paint and
finished the floor and
that is the floor that we have today.
We painted woodwork,
re-papered the walls and
now it looks like
the above picture.
The parlor and entry
were both covered in
a pinkish flowered paper and
the same avacado carpet
was covering the original fir flooring.
We re-papered the walls
of both rooms and tore up the carpet.
We lived with the original floors
until I painted blue and white squares
in the entry and
decided to add carpeting
back into the parlor.
We have since added
blue and white flooring
over the paint in the entry
(which I now kind of regret)
and although the burgundy carpeting
still is covering the fir flooring
in the parlor
we hope to tear it up and
just leave it in the
original state again.
The sitting room
looks like the above photo now
but it has undergone numerous changes.
When we first saw it
a white wallpaper with a gold design
was covering all the walls and
the same green carpet was on the floor.
The green carpet
was what showed
but underneath there were
four more layers of other carpets and
all the doors had been shortened
to accommodate that.
The sitting room
is the only room
that we didn't wallpaper
but it has gone through
more transformations than any other room
except for the kitchen.
Our first change was
blue paint, blue and gray carpeting
and white trim.
It was done in a country theme and
really was quite a pretty and inviting room...
what you see above...
...we then changed
back to blue paint but
still kept the burgundy carpet
that continues in from the parlor.
Third times aren't always a charm, and
that one was a great disaster,
so we then re-painted it
like what we see today and
added the lighter carpeting.
Above,
is how the dining room looks now.
A first choice of a new look
for the dining room,
after stripping off yellow and orange flowered wallpaper and
gold shag carpeting,
was red wallpaper with little yellow flowers
and a white flowered border
in red, yellow and blue.
I loved that room
but a change came
when I imagined that it
wasn't fancy enough...
...so we changed to
a yellow flowered,
more formal,
wallpaper.
When we bought the Cottage,
this is the kitchen we inherited.
Early chaos and
the only room
that I have a
"before" photo of.
This is our first change
in the kitchen
(sorry for the poor quality of the photo,
but it was pretty darn sweet)
and we kept it
for quite awhile...
...then it was yellow...
and I think there was some
red and white checked wallpaper,
at some point,
but now...
...this is where
we are at.
As I look back and
remember some of these changes,
I almost wonder why
we made some of the decisions
that we did,
but such is life and human nature, and
if I had to second guess myself,
I imagine
there will be a
few more decisions
in the future.
While Old Man Winter
continues to entertain us,
I am hopeful that
I will have some
new news
next week.
...Judy...
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