Photos of Updates on the House

 

 

                                                               My new rug!:

 

 

Lighthouse and its shadow:

                                         Built-in china cabinet:

 

Dining nook:

 

Guest room:

                                Peaceful corner of what is now the Master Bedroom:

 

Cabinet/Bar that divides the great room from the kitchen:

Christmas in the Mountains

I just love living in the mountains.  This morning, the ground was so frosty that it looked like snow.  Everything was so sparkly.   When we drove to see “The Hobbit” the other day, a tiny little cloud was taking a nap on the top of one of the mountains.  And all around in the valleys were lower clouds, giving the mountains their accurate name of the Smokies.

Update on the house:  My bathroom is now completely done and I love it.  So peaceful in there with the dark color and cedar. 

The dining nook is done except for touchups in the paint on the moulding.   Ray sanded down the dining table that his parents used when he was a child and re-stained it.  It came out very pretty.  Guest room and my sewing room done for the time being, but my sewing room now has no sewing machine and is being used as my office until the master suite and huge closet and pantry and tower office are built in the spring (and the NOW master is turned into a library). 

Kitchen is done except one of these days I would love to get new cabinets.  Living room is done—Yay, hardwood floors are down!—and there isn’t an inch of carpet left in the house!  Well, the living room is done as far as TV hung on the wall, and new rug—which I absolutely love—down.  But after Christmas, we will purchase the new sofa and 2 chairs to replace the PLAID sofa and BLUE chairs that came with the house.  They do NOTHING for the rug, but I’m ignoring that right now as much as I can. 

Sunroom is done, including adding the glass door I love, except for some touchups in painting.  And the yard is done until spring when we plan to devote quite a bit of time to it.  Ray’s barn was done long ago.  Everything is decorated for Christmas and is so pretty with the lights all lit.   Ray added a lighthouse outside one of the triangular windows in the living room.  it's solar-powered, so if it's been a sunny day, it lights up at night.  During the day, it throws an amazing shadow on the wall.

Once the Christmas decorations are down, this house will be the beautiful, simple Mission-style home I have always wanted.  So pleased. 

Top photo is of our lamppsot decked out for Christmas>

                                           Paper tree I made:

 

Cardinal that comes for visits in tree at kitchen window:

Spooky moon the other night:

 

Frosty morning looking through the cherry wreath on the door out to our pond: