Finishing the house part b

Miranda Loves Purple/Lavender. Here is a picture of her bed. You can see she LOVES her babies. To prevent them from having to be sent to the floor at night she has them set up looking at her from the foot of her bed. Her border has little fairies resting on flowers on it and I set it in the middle of her wall at the height of her light switch so she could really see her fairies. Then I took green paint and shadowed the leaves/ivy at the base of the border just as they had done in the actual border itself around the leaves etc. Makes the whole thing blend into her wall nicely. She had picked out the border herself and spent some of her Christmas money on it last year. On her bed is a white dress she just had to have. It is just beautiful, if not as practical for this time of year. However it was a gorgeous day yesterday (Thanksgiving) and the children could spend a lot of it outside ~ after dinner she changed into white sweats and a t-shirt so she could climb trees... which she, Robert, and Christopher (her cousin) did. In the not so tall safe willow out front!~ Christopher broke his leg at the beginning of the school year. Doesn't seem to be stopping him. What a trooper!

Miranda's room was done ages ago. However, a more recent thing has occurred. Last week we painted the kitchen and this week we layed the tile in the bathroom and kitchen. Aunt Karen and Uncle Rolly had tile under roof ~ out by their shed and when we cleaned it all up we found we had just what we needed to finish the bathroom floor. About 7 years ago I had purchased white tile (27 pieces) for 50 cents each. We found 13 light to medium gray and about 20 pure white 8 x 8 tiles in what we got from them. When I graphed it I was going to put two white and then a grey, two white and then a grey and so on making a pattern that would sit on a diagnal. Well, when I placed one tile on top of the other to see if they were the same size... I found the grey to be an entire inch larger than the white and so I counted what we would need to do the landing up by the tub and then the main floor and found that we needed exactly 13 for the landing and 25 for the main floor. So, the grey went up and the white down. It turned out quite nice in spite of not being exactly what I had expected.

Grey grout in the bathroom and brown toned/tan in the kitchen/dining roomNow for the kitchen/dining floor! This was yet another adventure! Over a year ago we had gotten 12 by 12 tiles from Home Depot. I got all 7 boxes that they had in stock at the time. They filled the shelf again, but I didn't have all it would take to finish the room. So, waited. Well, I waited too long! The manufacturer discontinued the 12 by 12 size and I needed 9 more boxes!

However, it turned out for the best. I never would have been able to talk Bob into undertaking this project and it turned out just lovely! They still offered the tile in a 16 by 16 and Bob found a complementary tile at Lowes to cut, smash, and put back together to make a border. Where you see the tile cutter at is where some 16 by 6 tiles fit perfectly between the lamenant and the new tile in the dining area. The tiles were out of the pile from Aunt Karen and Uncle Rolly and they matched up quite nicely. We never could have found anything like that! And here again there was just enough to finish the job. I think we have 1.5 tiles left??

The Kitchen/Dining was grouted the night before Thanksgiving (which we hosted) and we brought in a dining table and chairs that our neighbor Kay gave us when she moved away. The other table (a natural finish butcherblock with windsor chairs) is most likely going to go out to the "Bunny Bunkhouse and Fiber Factory to be used as a fiber seperating table and sewing table. I plan on putting a sofa out there as well as a restroom (at least a toilet) and a large sink/tub for cleaning fiber. Molly and Wiggles will have a home there as well. With a run off the north side that they can go out to any time during the night.

Another great thing came into the house yesterday. The China Hutch! And we needed to unpack the Crystal and China too. It looks so lovely all put together. The piano will be next and then Bob has a project... building bookshelves and milling doors and trim for our cabinets. As well as the crown molding and baseboard.

I'll take pics of the 'closer to finished' rooms later and post them here.