More House Updates and Textile Wrapping
Before heading off to our Easter weekend plans, I figured I would post a few pictures of additional updates we have made to the house recently. One is rather unexciting (some new bedding) but the other is the removal of the arch in the kitchen. Somehow I thought I had a picture of it but you can only kind of see it from the side. This one is not my fault for not getting the before though. The husband did it as a surprise while I was away.
Also included in these pictures is my first attempt at textile wrapping using furoshiki. This is my mom’s Easter/Mother’s Day/Birthday present all wrapped in cloth left over from some curtains.
Craft Room Continued
I recently added some artwork to one of the walls in the craft room. I still need to paint it, but the outline is up courtesy of a tracer (I am not that talented). The flash is giving a little glare but my camera died so it’s the best I could do.
Greenhouse
This weekend we continued to work on the house. We finished the greenhouse’s structure. Unfortunately I was remiss in taking any before pictures, but it’s off the side of house where the dog kennel used to be. We took down the kennel and put up new supports where necessary and plastic siding. the roof already had the plastic siding so it was pretty economical.
Here are a few pictures.
Craft Room Remodel: Phase One
When we first looked at what would become our home in New Hampshire, we
Before the renovation
knew that there was an odd shaped room down in the finished basement that didn’t really have a purpose. The previous owners used it as an exercise room, but we didn’t have any large exercise equipment that made this a good use for the space. So, after we moved in we stuck any spare furniture we had in the room and left it alone for over a year. Finally, after much discussion we decided to turn it into a craft…ahem…hobby room. After an industrious trip to Ikea last weekend, we were finally ready to begin the transformation.
The first step was to add some paint; the room had yellowed white walls that were in need of an overhaul. Another bonus from our homeowner predecessors was a lot of cans of paint in colors I would never put in my house. Still we wanted to
After the renovation
reuse what we had so we started mixing up paint colors and seeing what we could come up with. We mixed a robin egg blue with a sage green and then began adding in a midnight blue until we ended up with a light gray color that we liked. After the paint dried, we added some new shelving, a box, and some magnetic containers to the main wall. Below that we returned the old desk and chair that were in the room before and added a pendant light that used to hang over the sink in our house in Connecticut.
A close up on the new shelving
We then drilled holes into the bottom of the shelves and added spice rack jars for bead storage.
The spice racks turned bead holders
On the opposite wall we added a bookcase with metal boxes for storage that would keep the doggy out.
New Bookcase
The opposite side of the room
And with that phase one is complete. In phase two, we want to build a fold down work table and there is a strange door in the wall that we are going to turn into built in shelving for additional storage. Also, we need to add additional lighting and eventually we will replace the grungy carpet. And I will add some art to the walls to give it a warmer feel.
