Steven got a dining room table with claw feet at Goodwill for a dollar. I scraped off paint and rubbed it down with steel wool and denatured alcohol. I was amazed at the results! I will put a coat of shellack on it to further smooth out the finish. We have needlepoint chairs purchased at the ReStore.
We had a stash of curtains waiting to be installed. Some from a previous house and some from the current house. Amazingly we have enough for the whole house. For now I have only installed curtains in the second floor bedrooms;
A week of warm weather allowed me to do exterior work. We had removed a kitchen window in the south wall and had put a temporary piece of siding. Steven installed the stove vent in the space and then I used cedar siding to fill the space. Not perfect but a better solution. I put a window sill on the horizontal window and trimmed the vertical window.
The living room storms in the north porch were painted a baby blue that I really didn’t like. I removed the storms and painted the outside of the living room windows and painted both sides of the storms. I then painted the exterior window trim a rose to match the other exterior windows. Cleaning the windows and reinstalling the storm gave me satisfaction.
I wanted to paint the living room storms and windows so I did some cleanup and moved the worktable away from the windows. A new pathway was created closer to the windows.
The storms are standing and ready to be painted.
Finishing work on doors left on second floor bedrooms
One day we decided to take a new route home and saw this sofa along the curb. We tried to get it into the car but it was too big. A man came out of the house and said he would deliver it for us. He also had a loveseat in the garage we could look at. We decided to take both. I didn’t like the fabric on the sofa so I looked at the upholstery fabric I had purchased from Goodwill and found a burgundy fabric that would work well on the sofa. The love seat cushions are well worn and will be recovered in the future.
The kitchen is coming together. The dishwasher is installed. We hired someone to bring the refrigerator, stove and microwave that had been in our house to Rose Cottage. We discovered that mice had gotten into the stove insulation and into the microwave. They had eaten through 4 wires in the microwave. We cleaned up the refrigerator and stove only to discover that the refrigerator now longer worked! We can’t check out the stove until the gas line is hooked up.
The sink is completely installed with a new faucet purchased from Builder Supplies auction.
