Off and on over the last couple of months, we have been working on the laundry room/ mudroom area adjacent to the kitchen. Eventually the room will have a work counter, a small desk, book shelves, a laundry sink, and the front load washer and dryer. It is functional right now, but definitely not finished looking. In order to make the kitchen and mudroom flow together, we recently installed and painted new unfinished maple cabinets that are a close match…
Although it was pouring rain on Thursday and a terrible day for gardening, it turned out to be a lovely day to work indoors, and I just happened to have this mural commission already scheduled on my calendar. To see a little more of my artwork, visit Murals and More by Lianne over at wordpress.com. The homeowners just bought their first house and their two daughter’s finally got their very own rooms. The ten year old, Becca, has been wanting…
This fall we decided to have our old 1944 white bathtub refinished by a professional tub reglazer. It has been needing it for about five or six years. When our kids were younger and still liked to use lots of bath toys, it seemed pointless to waste the money any sooner. When we bought our house fifteen + years ago, the sellers unfortunately already had it refinished just before listing the house and we didn’t realize it at the time. …
For the last few weeks, we have been without a working printer/ scanner but finally bought a new one this week. I decided to try it out by scanning more images from Mrs. Crabtree’s 1940’s and 1950’s home decorating scrapbook. If you want to read my post about how I ended up with the scrapbook and what’s in it, click here. It takes a while to scan and crop each picture, so I am just working on the images in…
Tired Old Vinyl Floor When we bought our home, the polyvinyl chloride flooring, often mistakenly referred to as linoleum, that the previous homeowners put in the kitchen wasn’t in too bad of shape. Although we didn’t care for the faux tile or how easily it got dirty, it wasn’t that ugly nor did we want to rip out something just because of ascetics. We decided to wait until it was truly in need of replacing, and considering it was 10…
Last week I had to stop vacillating and finally make a decision in order to buy the retro colored tile for our mid century bathroom renovation and begin tiling. When it comes to making any kind of big ticket purchase or long term decisions, I ponder over them for days, weeks, or even months, rather than easily choosing. Tile fits under both of those categories. It didn’t help that the tile manufacturer, B & W Tile, had plenty of different…
I have to give my husband’s best friend’s grandma a big thank you when I see her. Back in the 1940s and 1950s, after she and her husband bought their home, she created a scrapbook full of clippings of home decorating ideas she liked. It has hundreds of either black and white or color images from a variety of old magazines and catalogs, everything from cute kitchen nooks, to furniture, to baby nurseries. Sadly, about 5 years ago, her home…