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New Home Update: Painter’s Progress Week 19

This time last year, I was finishing the design for the new home we were going to build. We loved the design and the details, but other important things – like the builder and the right land — just weren’t coming together. A few months later, we found this house on the third “shopping trip” […]

How to make a large, lighted outdoor wreath

Christmas time in a new house totally different from the last abode. How to decorate for Christmas? We were spoiled with our 10 minute exterior decorating. Ease of installation in potentially frigid air was at the top of our list. Weather is a huge factor and everything has to be able to withstand wind and […]

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New Home Update: Week 11

New Home updates:  Changing colors      Solar tubes    Painting Progress     Home Update Week 7    Home Update Week 11    Week 19 Painter’s Progress   New Home Update Week 22   There have been a number of pictures tested here in the front hallway– just to see if they “sing”.   This one has lasted the longest.    The […]

House update – week 7

We’ve been concentrating on covering the walls with paint. And being able to find the things we need daily. Like clothes, food and important papers. This bit of wall décor managed to escape from its box. As soon as I saw it lying on the basement floor, I knew where it belonged. Above the dining […]

Painting progress

We managed to put quite a few gallons of paint on the past several days!  The dining room went from deep gold to soft Tradewind (Sherwin Williams).  Every wall is so deeply colored that it takes three coats to cover — primer and two coats of color.  Every. wall.  That is why it is taking […]

Changing colors

A peek at the changing colors in the living room.  Original colors are bold, deep and rich from Old World Tuscany – rich terra cotta, deep gold, emerald sage, tumeric yellow.  The new palette is sunkissed Mediterranean with clean watery blues, sophisticated grays and creams, a bit of smoky orchid.   I’m excited to see it […]