Old & New: Pt. 2

Well, let's try this again...


All the rooms in the new house were white - just white. Not eggshell, not cream, not antique satin.....just white. Like these - the living room & the bath:













Oops, I'd forgotten about that awful wall paper... the paper in the kitchen was even worse. You can see the seam covers on the walls, too; that nice 'trailer' touch that is so chic.

We got rid of all of that.


Joel did a ton of taping/texturing and sanding of seams through the whole house. I completely resurfaced the bathroom walls with stucco and Everything got plenty of paint. Here's the new living room and bath:






Most people want to touch the beige wall; they think it is suede....Joel worked on it for three days and taught me several new words. :)

The bath became our reminder of Florida, hence the colors. The things hanging to the left of the mirror are combs my Mom brought back from Africa. You can see a little of the tub corner reflected in the mirror.

The dining room turned out like this:

And the kitchen got yellow cabinet doors and fresh (eggshell) paint over that nasty paper:

This area is a lot more open than it seems; furniture seems to find a new home almost daily as we pack up and still try to keep things presentable.

We worked like trojans and did a great job. ALL the rooms; three bedrooms, another bath, and the den, too.

For landscaping we invested in 24 tons of rock of varying sizes. Because of fire danger and the acute water shortages, we garden mostly in pots and have two areas where grass & clover grow periodically when conditions allow. And we installed two 100 gallon rain barrels that really help.

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When I look thru all the photos we've taken, I can see that this is really just a house.
It's the history, the work, the parties, and even winning the building code battle with the seller...that have made this Home. My home - of 26 years - a place that's hard to leave.

And still, it's time. Time for change, time for adventure, time to step to the edge of another cliff and see if I can fly.