Fall....my favorite season.

I got fall fever and had to decorate....even though it's just one room.....our only clean room!
We rummaged around in the garage and found some fall decor from last year and......

.....I had at it.

From this:

To this:

 

 

 

Tonight's post.....short and sweet.

Porch...

My sis-in-law sent me this picture because she thinks our porch could look this good....I love it!

 

What do you think?!

 

I wanted to decorate the porch for fall, but odds are that I won't be doing much of that this year.  We're just so busy fixing up the inside......and putting most of our bucks into doing that as well!!!

Speaking of inside, here's a picture of the floor in the downstairs bath....

Before:

After:!!!!!

 

Still needs trim, of course, but....YAY!

I'm thinkin' you need a sweet little building like this!

"I'm thinkin' you need a sweet little building like this!"  Yep, that's an exact quote from my sweet friend, Kristie!

Here's what she was referring to....

 

I've actually got a stinkin' old building like this....

:D

We are going to take that building down a board at a time. Truth. It's not high on the priority list though. We're going to save the old boards and build a wonderful potting shed....

.....more like this.....

with a nice potting bench..

I've saved a ton of pictures of potting sheds and potting benches....gathered from everywhere!!!! I had to make myself stop with these!

Downstairs bath...downstairs bath...downstairs bath, and a portion of the porch!

Are you ready?

 

 

So much of the bead board is already up!

 

 We ordered this tonight....

 

 

We bought this today....

 

 

 

We're making this tomorrow....

 

 

Soon....soon...soon!!

 

 

 

                                                   Decided to improve (at least for me) on this picture a tad....

BY ADDING:

1)  A pedestal sink with a backsplash

2)  An oiled bronze faucet

3)  A light above the sink instead of to the side (only out of necessity though)

4)  A hardwood floor

5)  A bead board ceiling too!!

 

 

A Portion of the Porch

I was inspired by a visit from family yesterday.

Thank you, Rachael, for the inspiration! Mine is lacking a wonderful rustic flag ;-)



This is a picture I uncovered on the internet!

This is my bench..and my porch

The tiniest bit of order...

....and praying friends have lifted my spirits.  Thank you ;)

 

A downstairs sitting room...



 

and the upstairs sitting room..... 

 

....have the tiniest bit of order....Not prettied up very much.....but still, I feel so much better!

As you can see, especially in the downstairs room, there is still a lot of cleaning that needs to be done; however, I'm a happy girl.
 

We took a much needed day off and went to a movie!

 

A little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothin'.

You know, nothing ever seems to go as planned.  Poor Jim. From one room to the next.....every day has been pretty much a new adventure.  We went from what we initially thought would be a kitchen completely finished to plumbing issues and then the downstairs bath getting new flooring.

I remember in one blog post saying that the kitchen would have crown moulding the next day....not yet.  I've learned that stuff happens, and you take it as it comes...which is perfectly OK with me.  I like having the downstairs bathroom flooring done just as much or more than I would having the crown moulding up in the kitchen. I like every little bit of progress I see...no matter where it is.

Yesterday I took pictures of the bathroom floor in question.....

Gross....                                                                
                         


                                       

                                                                  

It was a total stinkin' mess....literally.

Today the flooring is laid and it's far less stinky. 

I've decided to stop saying "tomorrow this will get finished", however, I can say, "this will get finished"......at some point. I'm not at all concerned with when.

When it does, here's what I'll show you....

A dark stained hardwood floor, white bead board walls, a white bead board ceiling, white trim, a white potty, a white pedestal sink.....the bathroom will be totally white.  Now that sounds really bland and boring, huh? 

Not so....

....isn't this lovely?!

The medicine cabinet?  Recessed....

 

......and costs $250 dollars.  Sorry, but I don't want a medicine cabinet that bad! Jim has the stuff to build this exact frame, except the mirror (that's $15 at Lowe's).  So, our's will be a fake medicine cabinet....with only what you see here showing....which is what you can see showing in the unfake medicine cabinet.  And....see that little latch on the medicine cabinet in the

inspiration bathroom picture? I'll have that in place of the little knob on the costly one.  I'm happy. Definitely.

 

 



The pedestal sink we'll have is slightly different from the one in the picture too.  This is the one I want...

 

I love the backsplash of this one.  The one in the inspiration picture doesn't have a backsplash.

 

 

 

I'm telling you, with the placement of the window and the placement of the 'medicine cabinet' (shhh) in our existing bath, this inspiration bath is the perfect bath to "copy".  Can you see it?

 





Character vs.....HELP!

All is NOT charm and character in an old house!!!

 

This is me rigging up a way to get my work files downloaded (I'm a home-based medical transcriptionist).

 

 

Old houses have precious FEW electrical "plug-ins"!!!!!

So you stretch a loooong way.

 

 

  And then they're not the three-prong type.  Although that high baseboard is oozing charm and character....or it will when it finally gets cleaned and has the trim board replaced, it's still so aggravating (to say the least!) when you have one of these per room.

 

 

And this itty bitty closet isn't so charming either! It's about a foot in depth! But, I knew that going in. I'll admit, I didn't really anticipate the aggravation of that, but it is what it is.....and, I'm still glad we're here when I look at what is true character....like these wonderful door knobs on every single door in the house.

 

...and, as one of my dear friends suggested, when I feel discouraged I look at this wonderful staircase....

and remember why we decided to undertake this sometimes-overwhelming-seeming project!