Some Changes

There have been a number of things we have done to our home since we moved in. We put in a new white kitchen from Lowes, painted a few rooms, put up two storage sheds and a new porch on the side of the house. I'll include some pictures here.

The living room was a dark gold. I painted it an Olympic "Toast" that we had in the living room at our previous home. It is a lovely neutral color. The fan is new too.

Poppy's first job, almost, was to insulate the playhouse and put siding on the walls and windows. Chloe insisted on it. She wanted electricity but we drew the line on that.

 

 Our playhouse.

I love our little back porch. It is a special place to sit on summer evenings, or..........

quiet summer mornings when the sun is rising.

   

Briggs finished the food storage room as soon as we moved in. It originally was a well house

 

Just a few things we have done to our home. I'll post more later.

2014 Begins

I really have a desire to continue this blog which I started when we wanted to move into our old fashioned farm house over 1 1/2 years ago. I wanted to keep a journal, if you will, of the things we have done to improve and beautify this house. It looks like that did not happen, but it is my  desire is to try to keep up the story of our house and life a little better this new year. So, I will begin with this introductory post and a picture of our house I took the other day when we had one of the few snows that we experience in the winters here in NC. Hopefully I will keep this journal up throughout the year so my family will have a little tale of our life to read when I am gone someday.

It Has Been A Long Time

I see my last post was May. We have been so busy that I have not been able to take the time to post pictures of our progress on our new home at 314. Redoing a building for food storage, painting, putting up fans, waiting for new kitchen cabinets, all in the last 6 weeks. We still have not moved in if you can believe it. We knew Katie was coming to visit with her family so we have stayed in our current home so they would have a comfortable place to visit. Besides, our new kitchen is not in yet and we want to have that all finished before moving in. That will take place next week and then the final push to move will take place. In the meantime we are moving a little at a time and have a few rooms finished. I must confess that some aspects of this old house are a little overwhelming for me and I come back to Rockhouse Road and wonder why we wanted to leave this beautiful piece of property and move to a smaller plot of land, essentially starting over with everything, but in the end I know the move will be good for all of us and that the Lord takes care of us and leads us in the direction that is good for us if we have faith. Already, Dad and Kelly are so happy with the move and all they are doing at the new home that it makes me happy to see them pleased. I will be pleased too when I finally get to call 314 home. Rockhouse Road, I will miss you but we must move on. Pictures of all of our projects will be posted soon.

Working Hard

Briggs and Kelly have been working so hard this week on the stone building at 314. We are turning it into a food storage building. They took off the roof and door and cleaned out the floor. It originally was the well house. The new roof is almost done. It is looking good.

 

I have finally gotten the living room painted after a week of interruptions. I love the colo,r "toast" by Olympic, from Lowes. I took the wall paper down in the foyer and plan to paint it "toast" too. I will do it this week, I hope. I have also painted the master bedroom a light blue green called "glimmer". It is by Behr from Home Depot.

Making A House A Home, Quick!

To me, making a house a home is having flowers all around the yard. So, the first thing I did was to hang the 8 geranium plants I had been collecting in anticipation of buying 314 from the front porch. The wraparound  porch has two rows of gingerbread trim so what better setting for red geraniums to hang from? The next day I planted impatiens in the garden in front of the house. They should grow up nice in the next few months and make a colorful show from the street. With the help of Mr. B. we hung a kitty kat flag I bought from a porch post and put up the house number plaques from Mighty Dollar for only a dollar each. They are so cute on the entry step post. I put a new entrance mat at the front door and "instant hominess". One of my first tasks next week will be to paint the front door black and the transoms around it white. I will look forward to that. Our current home is not seen from the road so no one ever sees my garden creations but now our lovely home improvements will be seen by all who pass by. They might even get a glimpse of me out in the yard in my grubbies working away.

"We Did It"

As Dora always says at the end of her show, "We did it, we did it." And we did. We had the closing on our house yesterday, May 1. Should remember that date easy! The closing was very quick and not complicated at all. I was surprised. I give a lot of praise to the realtor, Debbie Perry. She is a wonderful realtor as well as person. Kind of like a friend. After the closing we went over to our new house and started assessing all the things we want to do. I hung geraniums on the porch. I think there were eight. Briggs started investigating all he has to do to make this home work for us. Storage is the BIG thing. And for me it it is a new KITCHEN. But in time it will all come together and we will be settled and happy at 314.

Tomorrow Is The Day

We have our closing tomorrow. It is the day we become the owners of two homes. Oh my! I hope our other house will sell soon. We have a showing on Thursday. In the meantime we are going to the lawyer's at 11:00 tomorrow to finalize the sale and become the owners of 314. Then we will have the key and get busy fixing it up the way we want to. Hope we don't find any surprises except good ones. Briggs is excited to start his food storage building in the old stone well house. I am going to hang geraniums and plant inpatients along the front flower garden. The first thing we are going to do is put up a decorative flag to show that a family is living there again after one and a half years of standing empty. Do you think the old house will be happy about that? I hope so! The Lord has been guiding us through this experience for quite a while now and praise be to Him who loves us.