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The living room is painted! Yay! Wren, the color Silken Stockings isn't a Benjamin Moore color. I had it matched at my local Benjamin Moore store. I can't remember the name of the other paint brand. It's a creamy beige made from mixing white with red and yellow. I inquired about the mixture of colors out of curiosity.
Tomorrow I'm playing golf. It will be good to know I don't have to get up and paint. But I do find painting very satisfying. You can achieve change so quickly and easily. I'm looking forward to hanging the art work and seeing how it looks against the new background.
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I LOVE re-painting!!! I've only been in this place just over 3 years and have painted some rooms 3 times. I have to get it right! This is where it really sunk in about the northern exposure rooms, though I'd experienced them in my last house and didn't learn!
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Our family room is a northern exposure...we put in a solatube to add some light from the sun..
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I want a Solotube SO bad for our bedroom, but apparently the condo "owns" the roof and we'd have to "buy it" and get permission from our neighbours to put one it even though many houses had them installed as they were built!
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Well, that is crummy Barbe
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We put in a skylight when we re-roofed. I wish we'd done 3. Our upstairs is a finished attic with dark walls. The difference between the room with the skylight and the other is really dramatic.
My Mom used to repaint the bedroom every time my Dad went out of town. She would have everything ready to go and get started as soon as he left. She loved violets and wanted her room to be violet related. It's a difficult scheme to get right.
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when we first got our solatube many years ago, I kept trying to shut it off at the wall switch.
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HAhahahaaha, Lisa!!! I believe you can now get "caps" for the tubes that slide over the bottom. Not sure if those are the brand Solotube or an imposter....
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I didn't really want caps, I was leaving the room and wanted to save on electricity
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Oh Lisa, I can relate to that! My bathroom faces north (opposite light to you) and is very bright and I have been known to walk out the door and try to turn the lights off.........hahahahaha! I don't need a skylight there!
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Barbe your house is lovely and not too dark at all. Will take some pictures when I have finished my cuppa. (and tidied up so yo can't see how messy I am)
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Thanks Alyson, I know your DH found it comfortable enough to snooze off while I viewed your AMAZING trip photos...hehehehe. I can STILL remember that downtown shot of New York with just the office buildings in it and all those windows....! Could you find it to post it here? I do know my home is a bit darker than "normal" as I have to have a light on by late afternoon in the living room if I want to read or something. My last house was like that so I'm used to it. The house before that was TOO sunny!! Faded furniture and made it impossible to watch TV during the day. It was a loft condo and the window was 18' x 24' so way too expensive to drape. Neighbours years earlier had spent over $10,000 trying to cover their exposure and we certainly weren't going to do that. Was weird to go from one extreme to another, but losing the heat and "in a fish bowl" feeling was a relief.
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I found the picture you took at my house last summer Alyson! Sorry that you don't quite look like yourself, but it shows the accent wall wallpaper and the 2nd darkest gray is about what I painted the walls (painted first, wallpaper second).
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This was in front of our grocery store..makes it fun to shop
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Inside my place as promised.
Front room, my bedroom, kitchen and hall. (Will add more later).
Wall paper in this one is William Morris. Our house was built about 1887. Above is Dining room
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LOVE it all, Alyson!!!! Looks like a chair in your front room has the same William Morris pattern on it...is it? That hallway ceiling is to DIE for!!!!!!!!!! How rich it must feel to live amongst those walls....loving the mix of the cream walls with the deep accent wall in the bedroom. The ceiling in the front room!!! And the millwork....sigh. I'm really a romantic at heart! (can you tell?
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What a great home. I just love it. Such a nice change from the same houses in a development. You did such a good job in making it "your's"
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Girls I have visited Aly and those photos are showing you as it is........beautiful!
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Alyson, what a lovely home you have! I too love the hallway ceiling. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house built in 1887. Do you know its history?
Kathy
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Yes it is a lovely old house but its upkeep is not cheap.We know some of its history and found more when we took it apart. It was here before the street so now it sits on a very small plot. It must have been a grand house in its day. At present we are restoring the remainder of the veranda - it was very ornate. Recently we replace a broken finial. Its a lovely feeling house which is inhabited by benign spirits of the past.I think the house knows that it is loved. You should have seen it we we bought it some of the decoration was incredible especially the pink striped wall paper in the front room.
The new finial, front room ceiling, dining room ceiling, part of the hall, bathroom and my beautiful Mennonite quilt. And the cat - Barney who is almost 17.
You can either do as we have and restore the house as we have or as many of the young ones do strip it back and make it very minimal but I can't do that even though one house we lived in was all wood (walls and ceilings) and very beautiful so it needed very little added decoration.
Carole the cream is Benjamin Moore Heritage 6. We had to repaint the hall ceiling but the other two are absolutely original - we just cleaned them, they are incredible.
Barbe, I knew you would like it and yes the chairs are done in William Morris fabric.
As you can tell I love this house and will be sad to leave it. The family say we should stay until one of them can buy it so we will see. It is a Heritage house - the whole street is listed.
Must get back to my quilting but finding it heavy work today.
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Alyson, I love your house. I'm so glad there are people like you and your dh to become caretakers of wonderful old historic homes. And the quilt is gorgeous. Did you make it? I have two sisters in law who are avid quilters. One of them has even purchased her own long arm machine to do the fancy stitching when the front and back of the quilt are sewed together. My mother and her friends in our neighborhood used to do all the quilting by hand with a big quilting frame. In those days the quilts were our winter covers on the beds, not just decorative.
I'm still in the process of hanging art work in the living room. I'm starting anew and not rehanging everything where it was previously. I've brought in some pieces that were in other rooms and one piece that was stored away.
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How exciting Carole! Are you able to post of pic? Like a "before and after"? I LOVE seeing how just painting the walls change the whole room.
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I saw this when I went to Florida a joined a BCO chatters get together
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Oh! A beautiful Monarch! I love those butterflies! That one looks a little worn but I'm sure I would be too if I traveled like it.
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Too funny Chrissy! I was going to say it looked a little shop-worn, too!
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No making him look better. He is what he is.
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Regardless of the wear and tear he is still beautiful.
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Lisa, love the butterflies! Yes, the Monarch looks a little travel-weary but is still exquisite.
I'm doing laundry before our Charleston trip (leaving Thursday) and will finish packing tomorrow in spite of keeping DGS after Preschool. Then Thursday morning we'll drop off the dog at the vet's and be on our way.
I'm looking forward to seeing what DH will eat on our trip. We've both been on diets, but I'm just eating sensibly and cutting down. He read the book "Eat to Live" and has followed it religiously. So far he's down 20 lbs and I'm down 10. Enough so I can wear clothes I hadn't worn and can button shirts I used to have to wear open over a cami, and they're loose. He's gone from a 38 pant to a 34 and looks great. Yesterday morning he left for an overnight meeting and left me 2 oil-free black walnut waffles he'd made---he thought they were great. I thought they were like eating cardboard with black walnuts in it.
Alyson, I so like your ceilings. Really, I like everything about your home! The quilt is beautiful.
Kathy
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Love monarch butterflies. We haven't had so many this year but I am trying to grow swan plant so we will have food for caterpillars next year. Problem is it has been a bad year for paper wasps.
I bought that quilt is PA - not in the tourist area but on a back road. Had a wonderful chat with the Mennonite lady who organised the making- she has quite a business. We discussed patterns, making and life it was something special. She was quite impressed that I knew the names of a lot of the patterns. Would love another one.
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