tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46516313738728069062024-02-07T00:28:38.667-05:00ARDUOUS RUSTMr Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02937751565927066114noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651631373872806906.post-34025364074154250832016-10-20T15:49:00.003-04:002016-10-20T15:49:55.601-04:00Garden Jobs for the weekend (or October depending how quickly you get it done :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Collect Seeds<br />
I started this a few weeks back but take the time to collect up any seeds you want to re sew next spring. Foxgloves, lady mantle, poppy's are all on my list. I also spent some time purchasing some seeds as now seems to be the time i remember what i want and have a plan for where to sew it.<br />
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Plant Bulbs<br />
Ive done the easy bit, buying them. Now its time to get to work and plant them all before i run out of time. I keep it simple with alliums, daffodils, tulips, croquosus and grape hyacinth. Im trying to get blue bells to naturalize in the woods as well so i will add to them but for some reason they didn't do so well last year. The grape hyacinth seems to prefer the ground so I'm definitely putting a whole bunch more in<br />
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Trees<br />
My favorite ! Plant trees now. Immediately. GO BUY ONE. There basically giving them away at any nursery right now. Last weekend i put in a new apple tree in to the small orchard, and i may move the dogwood that i planted i there and add another cherry. This time of year the soil is still warm. In upstate new york too warm and not enough water, but non the less, get a tree in, give it some water and off it goes.<br />
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Plant<br />
Everything is starting to go on sale right now. So get out there and see what you need. Time to plant roses (i planted 3), plant irises (i planted 8), plant peonies (I'm up to 6 more so far) plant hydrangeas (i planted 4). I can't stress enough how great it is to do it now. Theres no instant gratification like in the spring so it takes that little bit more motivation. The plants often look like there dead, or close to it at this time of year as well so that doesn't help. But you will get such great benefits next spring. They get to settle in, put there feet under the cover and snuggle down for the winter. Just keep them watered in well, especially if we have another dry winter. The will reward you next year. Also look out for larger shrubs on sale, especially at Home Depot and the likes. They are just trying to clear the place out so there is some good deals to be had.<br />
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<br />Mr Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02937751565927066114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651631373872806906.post-10388747652359801032016-09-21T16:56:00.003-04:002016-09-21T17:28:57.914-04:00September update<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">There's many things to love in this world but always find one thing, one passion. Friends may scoff but find one thing you do, just one that you love and share it... </span></div>
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<span class="s1">That's what working in the gardening is to me. I was planting some new finds after a wonderful day at Hollister house and gardens (photos to follow) and I couldn't have been happier. The sun was fading, the weather was cooling and the peace was all around me. It's a moment like no other. So with that thought I will share some updates in the garden and also what you need to be doing now in the garden....</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This month is all about planning for next spring/summer, a time to look forward and plan. At the cottage I'm widening the white border another 2 ft to give everything more room and to let it really make a statement. I want a sea of foxgloves, with a swath of lupines, amongst all my other favorites. This seemed easier said than done as i spent last weekend moving giant field stones, but when i get the intent i go with it. Suddenly it all made more sense, i was cramming small plants under the larger shrubs, they lupins were suffering for lack of light, so now everything can breath and grow! MOre importantly i get to put more plants in.</span></div>
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This is not a proper after shot, but here you can the bed growing wider, i can barely remember a last spring when there was no flower bed here. Below was just after i put the fence up with the initial willow wips and other native brambles<br />
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This continues to be my favorite section of the garden, and i treated myself to a few more boxwoods. I added four more. After haggling with the garden chap to give me a deal on a few less than perfect balls and then i got two good green ones as well. This time of year is the best time to get shrubs in, there all on sale. You can see below the 2 on the far left are new and the two on the little hump behind the triple ball are new. The loveliest thing about all the boxwoods is that they are eternally green and this looks so wonderful all year round. I will of course add more, and this weekend i pulled out the old wild rose just behind those two left balls. I want to start working on a woodland walk, but that will be a fun autumn project. Also in the next few weeks more bluebells will be going in so i get a beautiful carpet in the spring. I started last autumn but will so few that they barely were noticeable so i got to really do it this time. This is where friends are essential!</div>
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Obsessed with my basked back pack find </div>
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This is a really fun project. Over the bridge I dug a cut flower garden. Im liberated from my self imposed colour schemes. I have pink (yes PINK!) roses and peonies and iris, then there will be more spring planted bulbs to go in. Giving flowers to friends and having them in the house is something i love (I know i know, I cant believe I write this stuff, but there really is nothing better than giving someone a bunch of flowers)</div>
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ANOTHER fun project. Who doesn't love an alée of trees. Here i am planting the ornamental flowering pear trees. Ryan and Scott they may or maynot be perfect for a spring wedding, just saying....</div>
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There is 6 total and they create an axis up to the fire pit. They just went in so will really come into there own next year. There is always so much to get done September as its a race till the first frost and you want to get the plants in with enough time to get there feet under the covers so to speak.</div>
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The orchard looks a little bit of a mess. Im not sure what to do underneath the trees. Eventually the grass will just go up to the trunks but when there young like this is good to give them soil and keep the grass away as not to compete for moisture and nutrients. Im just mulching and having to put up with it not being perfect for this year </div>
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Here the pear trees are being trained over the bench. <br />
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Just putting up a rope for the wisteria to grow along. Its really shot up in the last few months so Im excited for next spring, fingers crossed for those beautiful purple blooms </div>
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Ill leave you with some shots of Holister house and Garden in CT. If your up there you must visit. It make me want to garden constantly. That said if you need any garden advise, planning etc drop me an email</div>
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Last shot, the clematis Montana is blooming up a storm. This time of year is always hard as the garden becomes so tired with little blooming, so its nice to have this showy climber.</div>
<br />Mr Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02937751565927066114noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651631373872806906.post-25789570390839461202016-09-07T20:33:00.000-04:002016-09-07T18:35:46.847-04:00REPOST!!>>>Weekend in Review..its all about the Kitchen<span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">I was just reading about Plain English, the very expensive and wonderful cabinet making coming stateside over on remodeilsta (my go to interior blog). It reminded me of my inspiration point for my kitchen but with a wildly different budget. I think i did all the cabinet work for about $1000 dollars. Not bad for an oak painted kitchen, I love ikea but i love real wood better. The handles were picked up in hong kong so this amount doesn't include air fare :-) Take a look and scroll to the bottom for some updated photos....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">I seem to always be pulling a ceiling down</span>.....This weekend was no exception, but not to the extent of the living room. In the kitchen I wanted to leave the lath, which is the thin strips of wood that are nailed up to the beams to hold the plaster on/into. So off I went making a mess and pulling a whole burnch of plaster down. This had to happen as the ceiling had that awful texture that makes it look like the top of a cup cake on it (thats a technical term). So even if the lath or beams weren't good under there it had to come down. I feel like the house is totally working with me as it came down and revealed just what i wanted underneath it. The greatest thing about this house is that it doesn't matter what any body else thinks about it! Some people may think this looks messy, or not finished but it couldn't be more perfect for me. Heres the before shot..<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qprAeFtlAhDoNCbnB-m0w_b0fH6x_9MgELRb-iV4gVP-JwgxMqbE5gvo_S92bmKdvX2iw8fLC9wcTFx2lANF9Pc8njhVxBjWB3cjT-yOuvyqwuKbSfzZpMLlKsZvmHhxvILC9JdV7bY/s1600/IMG_9523.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qprAeFtlAhDoNCbnB-m0w_b0fH6x_9MgELRb-iV4gVP-JwgxMqbE5gvo_S92bmKdvX2iw8fLC9wcTFx2lANF9Pc8njhVxBjWB3cjT-yOuvyqwuKbSfzZpMLlKsZvmHhxvILC9JdV7bY/s1600/IMG_9523.PNG" width="225" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me in the dusk at 9pm and you can see all the<br />
crap that comes down as you start to pull it<br />
down, its a process!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWXaFdXZ3dou9-V_UdqOmXn75rmRhT2OzJZUqqiSKySKgZ6zxZt1NMCcc3avrYNaxwUK5xLsrTe5z-pxoeqiRNWmgNg1KubbUf4Mgnu2stx_PQH76-5ZKm-I2OoEyhXgDud_5u7tH5AQ/s1600/IMG_9525.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWXaFdXZ3dou9-V_UdqOmXn75rmRhT2OzJZUqqiSKySKgZ6zxZt1NMCcc3avrYNaxwUK5xLsrTe5z-pxoeqiRNWmgNg1KubbUf4Mgnu2stx_PQH76-5ZKm-I2OoEyhXgDud_5u7tH5AQ/s1600/IMG_9525.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">hello my beautiful ceiling, at this point i was just happy it was done. I really should save<br />
these projects for when people are here, but i have not patience i just want to get it done<br />
I am my mothers son...</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkN0vVd0Jzb2VmNjDRZlx0reJXYiNcBOVRXeAxV_TkGRYGexh7duxqOxhqH3uUanfebZyJm0UFmKc7tJRWHxYQc_qvzrdZxKV8SKeMJgiyRTSG2rYjc5GFwq7kL3s8tLbs5XiMM43Glc/s1600/IMG_9537.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkN0vVd0Jzb2VmNjDRZlx0reJXYiNcBOVRXeAxV_TkGRYGexh7duxqOxhqH3uUanfebZyJm0UFmKc7tJRWHxYQc_qvzrdZxKV8SKeMJgiyRTSG2rYjc5GFwq7kL3s8tLbs5XiMM43Glc/s1600/IMG_9537.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It looks like a disaster in this shot, well a lot like<br />
a disaster.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBV2-B-J8yY_U7c5wBtZvcnoqg3MQDR9AhEhRfONB_SFbuVrJ1BeqZuCR0uf6hgWSWpNklLMZqmjLO7RMzouAnE2Y4vKrsSwvgk3zwru241mM7nYemLHDokuHpdz5nP53JP-JkFVvs1h4/s1600/IMG_9527.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBV2-B-J8yY_U7c5wBtZvcnoqg3MQDR9AhEhRfONB_SFbuVrJ1BeqZuCR0uf6hgWSWpNklLMZqmjLO7RMzouAnE2Y4vKrsSwvgk3zwru241mM7nYemLHDokuHpdz5nP53JP-JkFVvs1h4/s1600/IMG_9527.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The worst, lugging all the crap to the dump, this is <br />
the bit i would love to pay someone to do </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG6x18Pxf6kkjYzkd0YGMS1P-XICuxrMbQZjmBXbwzRRjVX18qIf_CyjUq-OXLftMO0idRSy6sEDPMZHmzbve7NGF9Coxs8yNA62Oz-qzGv_egWwYYVMKVRn2ZLqGZw6cSsyqWo_xeUko/s1600/IMG_9529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG6x18Pxf6kkjYzkd0YGMS1P-XICuxrMbQZjmBXbwzRRjVX18qIf_CyjUq-OXLftMO0idRSy6sEDPMZHmzbve7NGF9Coxs8yNA62Oz-qzGv_egWwYYVMKVRn2ZLqGZw6cSsyqWo_xeUko/s1600/IMG_9529.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">then this guy had to go, would look good in another<br />
kitchen but not mine..</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3TOoFutYw1ZlMpVX1PbfElqM_WAjPQp6er3LeHwndpSmHJYtN7vB5BNJUVJQbaPOJOCtm3fAol2LHryblvXCWvJBahwUg_YG7yjqpU_fB8rnix0d-p_kcjv7mISa0nndIB9Yoms8d0E/s1600/IMG_9532.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3TOoFutYw1ZlMpVX1PbfElqM_WAjPQp6er3LeHwndpSmHJYtN7vB5BNJUVJQbaPOJOCtm3fAol2LHryblvXCWvJBahwUg_YG7yjqpU_fB8rnix0d-p_kcjv7mISa0nndIB9Yoms8d0E/s1600/IMG_9532.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">oh thats me, I innocently thought i would just take the tap<br />
(faucet) off and then it ended looking like the below</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One thing led to another, it was interesting getting that<br />
heavy cast iron sink out alone, i did a kind<br />
of rolling technique </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9_jcs2kU-hvW-FQ96tSggon-kJ3vrc9_9OYB5PLAuYV0yWGJFAImA6kvz9vFZnb2QNZHV9UHw45Q6AjAm9gIMXcEuV3BHeoAH-uZJ1bTXcXS2Mc7dA_QZVsscMoytyu2MN-kgjjHnGk/s1600/IMG_9533.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9_jcs2kU-hvW-FQ96tSggon-kJ3vrc9_9OYB5PLAuYV0yWGJFAImA6kvz9vFZnb2QNZHV9UHw45Q6AjAm9gIMXcEuV3BHeoAH-uZJ1bTXcXS2Mc7dA_QZVsscMoytyu2MN-kgjjHnGk/s1600/IMG_9533.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At this point there is no turning back, i have no sink<br />
and a room full of rubble, i chose to think of this as<br />
progress???</td></tr>
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Somewhere in amongst all this I had a washing machine and tumble dryer delivered. Yes this out of everything feels the most grown up. Thankfully I found a used set on craigslist so I didnt have to spend a ton on a grown up things like this. There used but Kitchen Aid brand so a good brand that can be (inevitably) fixed and repaired. Im in love with these shark bite connectors for plumbing. I moved the faucet outlets over, put the supply box in for the washing machine, moved the electric so its above the water line. Never a good idea to have them too close. Please note the use of a can lid to cover a hole in the shelf? No idea why they did this but i kept it. Secretly love all of these weird make do and mends. The plumbing was way easier than i thought and was smooth sailing. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shark bite T's</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcQVpwjYPScB_00uHEXnh4nMzp6Rr_oI1Div44z1hixnaHC5_iXjjB8oVgbJK8whwJCHjGRkh83kY4G2hxqkTGFQSroUXWCM8HCdQ-kXhkn2ZapR-KP5GIYJ4vADVkHGg8qVG0FsiQnWM/s1600/IMG_9550.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcQVpwjYPScB_00uHEXnh4nMzp6Rr_oI1Div44z1hixnaHC5_iXjjB8oVgbJK8whwJCHjGRkh83kY4G2hxqkTGFQSroUXWCM8HCdQ-kXhkn2ZapR-KP5GIYJ4vADVkHGg8qVG0FsiQnWM/s1600/IMG_9550.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Electric moving </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Oe3PBhGakDmLhPSdTP9rkvwSKItn9rcHmNfWwtdXTSPRD2QFVQT-PY5ZsePLLzAb98WgL17rEep8PYUahMCBth1NKLlxIBNseccQwXlsALvz9vNvXAKhj8b2Qeu218lwuLlIH3bQ1vg/s1600/IMG_9547.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Oe3PBhGakDmLhPSdTP9rkvwSKItn9rcHmNfWwtdXTSPRD2QFVQT-PY5ZsePLLzAb98WgL17rEep8PYUahMCBth1NKLlxIBNseccQwXlsALvz9vNvXAKhj8b2Qeu218lwuLlIH3bQ1vg/s1600/IMG_9547.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the wall behind the kitchen so all the plumbing is<br />
exposed in the utility room so makes working with it<br />
really simple. Pvc pipe going in. Im telling you the glue<br />
they use to put this stuff together is potent, no wonder<br />
plumbers are always smiling</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXpum5q4ydOuud3SqLIWM6WexWkgrQ7MY3WDanbQjE06JeXSDj5-yXCrGZpCfxMVZgDUbaHeeiMGIRLB1ol0E1aWWjGeu_78-jEPKiiu9Nyl5xtbA3L0vB7yTfXnq0VolbEqs9xdjveE/s1600/IMG_9552.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXpum5q4ydOuud3SqLIWM6WexWkgrQ7MY3WDanbQjE06JeXSDj5-yXCrGZpCfxMVZgDUbaHeeiMGIRLB1ol0E1aWWjGeu_78-jEPKiiu9Nyl5xtbA3L0vB7yTfXnq0VolbEqs9xdjveE/s1600/IMG_9552.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Probably should have cleared the shelves of the china first<br />
but as you can see I just went ahead and work around it.<br />
This again is the pantry/utility room and its amazing, all<br />
the mess and tools are in here, its going to be a great<br />
project room !</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glamour shot of the new stop tap box and the washing<br />
machine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even more glamorous shout of the washing machine<br />
out let to the drain. </td></tr>
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Now that something essential like the washing machine was in and working i can move onto more exciting developments. The dryer not so much, I need a 240 volt outlet installed and as much as I would like to try this I have to draw the line somewhere. My friends dad is an electrician so maybe he can do it, in the mean time I'm going to get a local guy out to give me a quote.</div>
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As i say on to something a little more exciting, and may i say putting my wood working skills to some use. My cordless tools are some of my favorite things at the moment but i really wish i had a table saw for some more accurate cutting. Using an old box as the cutting bench is somewhat challenging, and the circular saw doesn't give the cleanest cut but...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">These are just the basic stock oak cabinets at home depot<br />
The quality is okay, and the price is ever better at 120 for<br />
the 18" base and a little more for the 24" base</td></tr>
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Adding the side support rails for the platform</div>
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for the sink to sit into. This is planned </div>
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around a farm house sink</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't have the farm house sink yet so in the <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So if I had been smart I would have taken this<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">...the top colour is the living room, the colour on <br />
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So i painted half the room in the colour B paint, and i was on the fence about it, was too blue, almost cold. On a whim i mixed a 50/50 blend with the option A taupe color and it came out perfect, thats whats on the bottom half of the room in the first photo (on the wainscoting). Its a warmer grey without being too taupe. The colour on the top half was too blue. Ended up a prefect shade of grey/taupe by chance. I basically didn't have the time to drive back to home depot for more paint. Moral of the story, have a go and see what happens. Moral of the story, spend more time on paint choice...</div>
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Definitely not finished, there is another 18" drawer unit (i think) to go in the run so its a set of three units. Always sets of three. The 24" unit on the left hand side will hide the dishwasher when i find one on craigslist (lets all cross our fingers to the craigslist gods that the perfect one no more than an hour away for little money will be listed). The concept is pieces of furniture opposed to box standard units. I have this great blackened hardware that i have been holding from a trip to hong kong that will look perfect once they are painted grey. But this is where i left the weekend. I finally got to install my antique shelf brackets out of storage. They are already a white, chipped perfect patina. The massive old floor boards were used in the basement as vegetable storage. After a thorough bleaching (in the snow) and scrubbing down they look perfect, and were weirdly the perfect length. Finally all my white china has a home!! You have to read back into previous post to see my ramblings about whiteware, stoneware etc etc, my inner Martha Stewart takes over, all be it a British gay version of Martha. Now i have so much room for more, bring on the flea market finds. The cabinets themselves will be washed with the same grey as on the walls, but with some of the grain still showing. You can see the base rails being added as well to the units. I also just put some board on the tops so i have some counters to work on, and painted them black so i can get an idea how the slate will look. Its gonna look perfect. I can see some tile or a piece of slate running along that back as well, just a few inches. Along the top of the ceiling i also want to run a 1" by 2" wood trim to add a finishing to where the ceiling meets the walls. Again that balance of finished and unfinished. Its a work in progress...check back later in the week for the stove make over...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>March 2015</b>: <b>The beginning </b>One of the first things i wanted was a fence. An english mans home is his castle and all that. We love to define our land. This is a very dear friend helping plant the first wips of the willow fence. Another very good friend helped me with the hole digging and cementing of the post and rail fence. One thing about this place is that without family a phone call away you definitely need friends who want to roll up their sleeves to help.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>June 2016: 1 year later. </b>In the Autumn I added a whole bunch of holly bushes along with beech and horn beam wips (small plants) along with the willow. Rambling through all of this is wild rasberries and wild roses and bluberries. I also have a clematis and wisteria. The overall effect is a dense country hedge that reminds me of home. It becomes a haven for wildlife with the berries providing food and eventually they will nest in there once the holly fills out. I can believe how much it has grown in a year. The stone seat another friend helped build from stones bug out of the ground, so nice to have that memory every time a take a break there. I have branches that vines are covering so it will become a little hidden nook in the hedge eventually. Isn't nature amazing what she can do in a year.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>End June 2016: </b>Everything is a mass, with hydrangeas, roses, and viburnum adding the next layer. Woven through for height are alliums, veronica and bugbane. Then we drop down to irises, lambs ear, foxgloves, lupins, hollyhocks all classics english planting, the herbaceous border. Least we not forget the budleia which will over take everything in high summer, a profusion of white flowers. This is my homage to Vita Sackville-West. Her white garden is heaven, and here is my own little slice. Next year i will have probably dug it a foot wider, i think in the fall i will have to move things to give them more space... </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first year of gardening was so rewarding, I spent a lot of time adding manure, compost and working the soil. I cant stress enough how important this is. If you cant be bothered to work the soil then don't buy the plant!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My most recent project, adding a section of stone wall to hide the grill and create an outdoor kitchen area. Then a little more fence to screen the fire pit and seating area</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The wild violets run rampant through the lawn. I love them! Im not one for the pristine, weed free lawn. The bees love this, along with the dandelions and clover flowers. Im chemical free as much as possible and I definitely keep the lawn chemical free to help our buzzing friends.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is one of the best developments. My amazing neighbors who have 30 acres next too me. There john deer is like going back to my childhood. Who doesn't love driving a tractor, only now dad cant tell me off! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So very happy with the way this turned out. My little field on the other side of the stream needed some boundaries, so this is the first stage. There will be a gate that mirrors the ones I build for the drive way but for now this is a good start.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the right of the kitchen door i have a little bed of herbs, chives, rosemary, mint. So great to be able grab a bunch right by the door</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The alliums in the spring. I love how this ornate flower comes from a simple bulb. If you do one thing this Autumn it should be to plant alliums. I dream of a whole field of them with russian sage coming up all around them. Clouds of purple and blue, thats my mission come the Autumn, plant 100's of alliums</span></td></tr>
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A little closer up on the tile process. For those of you that don't know, tiling is pretty easy if your patient, accurate and can use a trowel. This is what the "glue" looks like going on. Acrylic tile cement is its name and your trowel it on then scrape over it to create a good bed for the tile to settle into. Wear something old as it gets everywhere.</div>
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Lets skip to it all done. This is the satisfing part. I am really happy with the way that the whole space is coming together. The chase for the upstairs pipe actually adds a little more architectural detail to the room and the bath surround is exactly like I imagined. Think Mrs Patmore's scullery. Or the below image that i have no idea where I got it from, its in my "bathrooms" folder images that I have collected for years....</div>
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I toyed with the idea of the moulding but decided with keeping it simpler....</div>
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I hate grouting. No two ways about it. You've put the tile up, measured and cut all that you need, got it all level. Then you let it set for at least 24hrs. By now hours, days have passed, and you can't use the shower. I also took the toilet out. I wanted it to be done by this point. Then you have to scrape grout all over it, pushing it into the gaps and it gets really messy. It goes everywhere. Which when its in the bath tub all good but when its all over the floor it gets annoying. You get the picture. I was tired....<br />
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This is a great shot. So whilst I was at it I thought I would put a new loo in downstairs as well. But as is the nature with old houses one thing leads to another. For almost a year I have been able to see into the basement by the toilet. As nice as that was it was time I ripped up the floor behind the toilet and replaced it. Up top here got a new plank and then also down in the basement as well so its nice and solid again. No money pit scenes unfolding here (the bathtub in that film, i had visions of the toilet crashing through.) Also re ran the cold water pipe as it was old copper that condensed and exasperated the moisture problem. Replacing it with pex and a new valve solved that. </div>
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Now the fun part. With the tile down and sort of grouted, it didn't go that smoothly but for this post lets imagine thats the way it went. This is one of the few floors in the house that is relatively new and I have been wanting to paint it. After a solid sanding to get the old varnish off I applied a coat of dark stain. This is the wipe on wipe off variety so it only takes it down a little as its not raw wood. What was great with the old toilet out it was easy to tile and paint. I have obsessed over the geometric style floor tile but as always there is budget constraints so I came up with a solution...</div>
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My slippers are getting there own blog. Essential renovating footwear as I have mentioned. I now take my slippers to my friends house, I have become that person. Here it is in progress. Using a stencil to get the basic layout out first. Its a little messed up here and there as I should have spent more time cutting a more accurate stencil but we have established by patience level in previous blog post...</div>
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Then I am going back in and hand painting in shading and finessing the shape. This close up shot it looks a little raggedy but once the hand painting is done it looks much better. I promise. Anyway nobody should be this close to the bathroom floor. This is just for the magic of blogging..</div>
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The stencil. I just cut them out from paper and then gave it few coats of clear varnish to help them stand up to the process of stenciling through them. Gosh do you think Martha would be proud?</div>
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Many many many hours later (and cups of tea) its starting to take shape. Still needs to go back over and add more details in. Its really important to get the shapes all touching in order for the 3D to work. Also its important it goes right over the edge, you can see along where the bath is there is a shape missing so that needs to be painted in. Also adding a degree of shading in the grey top "V" really gives dimension. What also really looked great was going back over and sponging on a random layer of wood stain and blotting it off so it all looks like its been there forever. When I put a final coat of varnish I will use a tint so it pulls it all together even more.</div>
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Hey presto! We have an almost completed bathroom. The background is there anyway. The floor needs some more work, but the new toilet is in, the tile is done and I can take a shower. By Sunday afternoon this was pretty imperative...</div>
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Oh and then this was what was happening upstairs. The miracle of the second floor toilet happened last weekend but the wall was missing. Not a problem when its just me but friends may disagree to this open plan WC. I wanted to do ship lap up the wall and I was going to continue it along the back but it turns out I think I will have enough wood from the wall I took out to clad it in that. You can see I have started to place it in the pic below. Anyway we will see what happens..</div>
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I used the back side of the ship lap as its all bumpy and textured (love) and it will be white washed or greywashed, or the more daring options stained black. I like the idea of it looking charged but I'm worried it may be too dark for the bathroom, thoughts? Then back into the old wood I think. I need to put some more thought into it but I'm thinking this will be more black fixtures than brass so it can be a little darker in here and woodsy. More for another weekend. Another triumph was running the new electric up to to this room so now it has a heater and is cozy. All i need is a new sink, shower tray, shower fixtures, lighting, more tile, more lamps, more plumping, more bits and bobs ......(sigh) </div>
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That is it for the weekend update. Next weekend is some much needed relaxing and tinkering with the "stuff" to go in the downstairs bathroom. Also I have more antlers for the hallways, I can't wait to get them up and take some pics....</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his is where the new WC is to be installed. This is what is affectionalty called "davids room" as my friend always stays in this room. There was a wall here, as you can see in the photo below. This is directly above the bathroom below and was the logical place for the toilet. I bit of planning went into the down pipe as I didn't want to have to move the bath and what not downstairs and I can't go through the wall as all the giant beams that hold the house up are in there. That left me with the option you will see. The toilet is in just the right spot (as long as your not over 6ft) to be able to stand under the eaves. Any one who is tall will have to sit down :-) And yes this post deals with poop pipe....beware</div>
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This is my second toilet. The first delivery (from amazon) was smashed. Top tip, don't order a toilet online if you don't have too. It turned up like a smashed vase with no chance of it being put back together!</div>
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My "heres Johnny" moment. Not the first one in this house and probably not the last!</div>
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I find herringbone slippers totally appropriate working footwear. Yes I know its right next to the circular saw. When I post that I sawed my toe off you can all say i told you so, until then i will have cozy feet and multiple toilets..</div>
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Wow i felt so accomplished on Friday night when I got this far, little did i know the next three days of grunt work...</div>
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Remember in the summer when i redid the down stairs bathroom, well I started to undo all that good work. This is the wall where the pipes need to run up in to the second floor. I decided to build a bump out to house the pipes and create it as if its an old chimney or something like that. I have always had a bunch of inspiration images of completely tiled walls and loved this idea. The hope was that this would look like that.</div>
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This is the old "poop" pipe that nobody wanted anything to do with. I did a balancing act of getting it down with the use of a step ladder and the old shelf unit. Funnily enough the thing I was most concend about was cutting this out and that was one of the simplest parts. I made sure to get the diamond cut blade made for cast iron cutting, I actually got the right tool for the job. Also it was clean as a whistle inside so nothing gross to report there, take note David and Malcolm.</div>
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As always with these projects one things leads to another. That being, moving a hot water pipe, disconnecting the run from the kitchen and the bath, re routing the cold water pipe. I did and do have this idea of a grey water system (if anyone has any info on that let me know). The washing machine dumps so much water in the to the septic system is seems silly to have it going through here, but for now I reconnected. In the future I would like to have a grey water well out the side so the WM can go into there. There was never a machine in the house before I moved in so I'm always concerned about the amount of water washing into the system and removing all the good bacteria needed. I won't bore you with more septic talk !</div>
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Whilst I had the wall all cut up and decided to run a new electric line up to the new bathroom from a very underused electric run from the basement. This way when I connect the heater up there it can have its own line and not trip or over stress another electric run. Let me tell you threading this line into the basement was a pain. I went up and down about ten times before i finally fished it through. </div>
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Once the pipes were in it was full force on the frame out. I also wanted to clad the side of the tub in tile so it all felt built in. Funny story here, saturday evening around 4:45 I was all done with the pipe, had ran the cold water up to the second floor and was all ready to install the toilet. There I am screwing in the toilet bolt to the flange ready to drop the toilet on. Then I dropped the bolt down the soil pipe. Thats when you just have to laugh. After all that work I had to then take a sawzall to the pipe to open it up again to fish out the damn bolt, mainly because I didn't want it causing a block in the future. Then i had to re seal the pipe up again. And then i drank....</div>
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Sunday was a little more productive and felt like it was really coming together. Some days it just flows and you feel like your achieving a lot. Drywall, toilet installed and flushing. Bingo! Sunday night at my usual 4 am call to pee, I didn't have to trek downstairs. Not as liberating as i had hoped, but come summer it will be great when the house is full again.</div>
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The lip on the bath surround going in. Again as in the last post I still never manage to fully clean out the room. Also by Sunday I really wanted a shower!</div>
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Tiling full force on sunday. I also managed to re do the cement board in the ceiling between the beams. I had done it in a bit of a rush in the summer so I wanted to do it properly this time. Sliding insulation in between the layers and around the new piping so that it is sound proofed and insulated.</div>
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Learning my lessons as I go. I always rush tiling but this time I made sure to mark out the wall with levels and really figure out the placement and properly cut the tiles. This wall is front and centre so it has to look good.</div>
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Over christmas I had a couple of choices, either do this project or start the plumping for the new bathroom. Seeing as I had a house full for most of the holidays, I thought this maybe the safer option. My room has always had this admittedly very useful walk in closet (probably one of the many children that lived in this house's bedroom) and a nook in front of the window. As charming as they were it made it tight when the bed was in the room and I wanted the light to come in across the bed, I know I know I sound ridiculous, but who doesn't want to lay in bed and have the light streaming in, you know drinking tea and generally being lazy...</div>
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Above is how it looked before, perfectly reasonable and in fine shape, I could have just painted and called it a day. To be honest I think the house wouldn't have had these originally, there is so many little cut up areas, and the granddaughter that I met who's family used to have the house since around the 1900's was telling me that as they had children they just added another sleeping nook. I would imagine these walls were put in around 1920-40 when they had the 8 children. As I pulled them out I kept finding little parts of old wallpaper, I love these little discovery.</div>
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See I finally admitted it was messy and took the curtains down. I kept the desk in, I always need somewhere to put my tea down. Also take note of the beam all covered up in plater that runs along the bottom of the window. Im sure ill find out there is some terribly important reason that the beams are meant to be covered in plaster but until then I'll be busy exposing them...ALL.</div>
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You can see in this photo the amount of plaster that is on these walls. Im always surprised by the weight that this old concrete, horse hair blend weights. I can feel the house sighing as I take it down. Also here you can see a glimpse of the original beam construction of the house in the right hand corner. These are the little glimpses that gave me hope when i first viewed the house, never did i image how beautiful the beams were underneath. I also don't understand why they would have been covered up ? </div>
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I surprisingly kept it somewhat tidy as i took it all down. Notice the window to the right. That helped a lot as i just thew it all out onto the lawn. My neighbors think I'm nuts.</div>
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Its at this point when all the walls are down, it all looks a bit messy and depressing. The old plaster really makes a mess and then where it was connected to other walls it really looks bad. This is were a little creativity comes in to patch what you can back together and also realize that it will never be perfect and that is how it should be. Here there was a big indentation where the wall used to be, so I put back in a "beam" that was part of the old wall. I grey washed it later on so that it is more subtle. Then i just filled and re-plastered around it. Also this is where there is an odd little door on to the landing. These are the parts that i love. All these old details, I think another person would have taken it out and cleaned and re-plastered the whole wall. Its really important to keep all of this character, every crack and old detail all adds up to what makes it great. Its all too easy to take everything away and then you have removed what you loved about it in the first place. In someways thats why its better thats it just me pulling these bits apart. You see a team go in and rip the whole walls away and put back a generic dry wall and you loose all that great old plaster. I didn't have this perspective on day three or plastering around all the "character".</div>
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Just messing around and putting the bed frame back in, this is what I call "I need motivation" stage. I think it was day three and I was still plastering areas and waiting for it too dry. Its so tedious but necessary. I did find this amazing filler that drys within 30 mins and is rock hard, but you have to use it within 10 mins of mixing it up. This was life changing if you have ever waited for plaster to dry you will feel my pain. Oh and notice the beam, oh and the wall colour. It was starting to come together.</div>
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This was again pretty tedious. Where the old walls were left a mark on the floor. This is not a job for a hand sander, but needs must. I think when all the various wall are moved or removed then I will get a seriuous floor sander to rework some areas, there too beautiful to mess up and not respect. For now you can't really notice it, and its actually kinda nice to see where the old walls where.</div>
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Ugh this looks like a disaster. It basically was. This was during the many layers of plaster to get some sort of smooth transition from where the old wall was back to the ceiling. You can see the original ceiling is no ice rink, so it wasn't like i had to be a master plasterer. But just transitioning over the bumps was a pain. Anyway I got there after a while and then there is a great technique when the plaster is almost dry to sponge it, this way it looks like the old plaster. This is also where you at some point have to draw the line as you could go on for ever creating the old plater look. Im still talking myself out of doing another coat, luckily for me there is more projects to concern myself with..</div>
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Adding a little water to the paint mix to create a wash for the wooden uprights I put in. This technique is so simple and always works a treat.</div>
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Here we go. Curtains back (don't worry mum they survived) and that great bed frame back in place. You can see where the walls used to be and then you can also see how the light now goes across the room. See I'm not crazy ...Also take note the ceiling is still not painted but is somewhat complete...</div>
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The lion and the dresser that were temporarily in the living room were lugged upstairs, thanks David! You thought you were coming for a relaxing christmas break. (Martha please ignore the dust and finger prints). Also one of my little painting studies, one day i will get around to doing the large scale version of it, i will get back to painting something other than walls!</div>
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The old piano desk is right at home at the side of the bed along with that lamp i picked up at the flea market. Also no room is complete at jordan cottage without antlers!</div>
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Living up to the saying an English man's home is his castle saying and also that we like to define our land, I have been wanting to put a gate on the drive way for a while. On a serious note it lets me close up the back of the house so when i am not there no body can just pull in the back of the house. Its pretty hidden away at the back so I'm always concerned about break in etc. Its also a lovely feeling when your home at night to close the gates and nobody is going to stop by. Above is the finished gates</div>
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The plan. My inspiration is a typical english 5 bar gate which are all over the family farm. But of course to buy one in this country i would need to sell the house to afford it. So necessity is the mother of all invention. How hard can it be. So i set too with my trust power tools and this very technical drawing (ha)</div>
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What is great about the drive way is that i can just use the 10ft lengths of 2x4 planks so the cutting was minimal, not that its particularly hard to cut 2x4 shorter. Especially since i splashed out the 7 dollars and bought a new cutting disk for the circular saw- life changing, no more fighting to cut through the thinest piece of wood. Here i am setting the gate post in. Digging is normally the hardest bit but there was a couple of giant stones here and once they were out I was able to easily sink the gate post in. Then it got cemented in the same way the fence went up. Very simple just adding the dry mix cement in and adding the water and letting it set up. Main thing it to keep it level and give it time to set. </div>
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Here we go, a work in progress. Its projects like this when you really need another person. Lifting these gates up a 100 times on to the hook and lining up the eye (that the metal bit in the photo below that goes over the hook) wears thin after a while. But i have to say i was pretty pleased with the way it was shaping up. The gate on the right is hung. There pretty high off the ground, my thinking is that if we have the many feet of snow that we had in February this year then there is a fighting chance the gate will still open and close.</div>
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Also I'm going to wax lyrical about my power tools for a moment. I didn't buy them new, like most things I turned to eBay and got a set of Bosch for a great price. This way I got to buy a better make of tool that I wouldn't be able to afford, just simply because they aren't the newest models. Also I'm not a full time contractor so its not so important that they are in tip top shape. I did however buy a new batter pack as is one of the first things to go in a rechargeable set up. Also please note that Bosch tools are the least offensive color of power tools. They are not day-glo which i thoroughly appreciate </div>
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Allium azure (below) is one of my favorites. I already have a few alliums groups in the garden but i want big clumps of them everywhere. When i was home last year i visited Alnwick castle and they have hundreds of them scatered beneath trees in a well light but wild area. Im thinking about putting more all around the small orchard area i have and seeing what happens. Not sure if it will work as you need to let them grow in the summer and i will want to mow the grass, so it may just be in the flower beds. I may try some in the wild meadow area beyond the small orchard. Anyway now is the time, in fact I'm being. Alliums need to be planted now so they can get settled before it starts to get too cold. That will be this weekends project..<br />
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Snow drops and bluebells. Quintessentially British bulbs. These will go everywhere if i have my way. I have ordered 80 blue bells and 50 snow drops. I will have to channel my inner Martha Stewart and gather as many hands as possible to get these in towards the end of the month. I have a busy travel schedule coming up so timing is everything. Not to early or they will start to grow and i don't want to leave it too late. First weekend of November is when I'm thinking. I have my beech tree seedlings coming then too so i will still be a busy time. I still need to order the hornbeam to go in as well to fill out the hedge idea. I will leave this property with plants that will go on forever, and one day it will have a fantastic hedge and an all year round flowering garden.</div>
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This is where all the blue bells will go in. Then come spring it will be box wood and blue bells. I think it will be so beautiful too take a walk up there and sit. I will have built a stone bench or found a wooden bench i like to situate up in there by then i hope. Off to the left is also a very basic nursery bed where i have a whole bunch of fox gloves growing so i may also leave a few of them in there for good measure. All my favorites. I think it also needs another little topiary, the smaller version of the big guy at the front. We will see what happens this weekend...stop me!</div>
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<li>Allium (purple and white for there respective gardens)</li>
<li>Bluebells(woodland walk)</li>
<li>Snowdrops (orchard)</li>
<li>White daffodils (along the hedgerow)</li>
<li>Grape Hyacinth (Around the Norway Maple)</li>
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My mum inspired this process. Whilst chatting she mentioned how easy willow cuttings are to root by simply putting in water so i tried some the other week and would you believe it, they rooted. You should just be able to shove a piece of willow in the ground and it will root, but it needs to be constantly wet and we have been so dry, so this process works a treat.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a really wild friday night updating my gardening book. I keep all the tags and then can write alongside them any notes i have such as when they should be trimmed, or if i want to move them before next spring. Its riveting stuff i know. What can i say it makes me happy. The hydrangea trees are some of my favorite things i planted, filling out above the fence and giving some great structure to the garden. The plan was for this to be the white garden and to provide a barrier between the house and then the road. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here i planted two "harry lauders walking stick" also know as corkscrew hazelnut. It was discovered in 1800 in (of course) the english hedgerow. Its branches are contorted and provide great winter interest. The plan is to have a few more box woods around them. All in time...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obsessed with my double balled box wood. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=arne+maynard&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMI56em2ouCyAIVRj4-Ch1-9wsQ&biw=1200&bih=811">Arne Maynard</a> is a constant reference point. He obviously has an endless budget but i have to start somewhere. Large topiaries everywhere is what i want, but slowly and surely i will get them. Seriously take the time to look at his work, simple, edited and beautiful. Gardening with restraint is key and i love all his projects. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exciting! My tomatoes are coming on like crazy. Never really planned on having any veg this year, but just planted them and they are pretty self sufficient ! Now the big decision is where to put the veg garden permanently.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have jabbered on about all my fruit trees, and here are the apples starting to come in. Planting trees is one of my favorite things to do, yes I'm that exciting. For the same price as lunch you can put something in the ground, and with a little care and attention it can live on for years and years. Its pretty amazing. This past weekend i put in a new maple and really want more!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isn't this what we should all be waking up to everyday. The fog and dew, its literally like being at home in England, but then it gets hot, unlike England. The best of both worlds..kinda of...I just need a beautiful topiary emerging from the woods...that would be perfect...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my rose, its a terrible photo but i love them. This is a David Austin (this didnt' mean anything to me, but it was my mothers first question "is this a David Austin" apparently a good grower, and apparently as the nursery told me not very appreciated in the states, so i obviously then bought them all). Anyway they are British roses, old style, full flowing and smell beautiful. I planted one but quickly realized soon as you start to cut flowers then you are left with an empty garden, so then i planted two more. This way I can cut a few from each bush and not really notice. They need attention. Im all about gardening that needs attention. Thats the therapy of it. The Japanese beetle love a munch on them, so you need to spray, you need to dead head to encourage more blooms. There is something rather lovely about looking after something and seeing it flourish.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bug bane and culvert root add great height to a border and they are beautiful old plants. Look at Sissinghurst, and Vita she loved these plants. In the below photo you can see them reaching for the sky and I just can't wait for them to spring to life next year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Sissinghurst the white garden is absolutely stunning. Im just finishing reading a book written by the wife of Vita Sachville-West's grandson which takes you through the creation of the garden, with the life that was lived there intertwined in the story. A great read. It stresses the importance of getting the foundations in sooner rather than later. Big shrubs, roses, box, all need years to grow and this is what rings through my head as a rush to use the last few planting months of this year. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thats Annabelle on the left. She was discovered by Harriet Kirkpatrick in 1910 when she was out riding in the country side in Ann, Illinois. She and her sister then obviously dug it up from the wild, as we all would have done, and then started sharing it wit there friends. Basically this means when i am pulling up a plant in your front garden you should encourage me....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Look at these little box woods in the bed in front of the house. They are perfect. I want to eventually move them out further into the lawn so that the bed sort of over flows into the grass. Next spring it will develop more. Also here is lambs ear, lavender, russian sage, the irises that weirdly re bloomed this year. At the back is a plant very similar to buddleia but less invasive. Its a haven for bees and i have so many frogs. Also i did have a gardner snake in here but i relocated him to the field. They are good for the yard but they still give me the willies so he was outta there....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a shot. Thats me from my best angle. This is a little nursery in Patterson, NY. Its not fancy, but the plants are so healthy. They are not overly preened or made to look good. They just grow. Put them in good soil and watch them go for it. This is my kind of perfect day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">....and this was a few weeks back with my niece. The front flower beds have really filled in. Here its all green and purple and blue. Im all about a color story and it works with the grey of the house so well. New lights either side of the kitchen door have gone in. Solar so I'm being green and top tip here. Solar light can be so harsh sometimes so i took the lights apart and added a lighting gel, so that they give off more of the Edison glow. It actually works...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There you go, no nasty white light here, a nice orange glow. Whats great is that they come on at night and turn themselves off and don't need wiring. Basically the easiest thing to do. The hardest part was sinking the pole in the ground. I was thinking about wall mounting but i wanted to get ivy going up the house and this is a great way to get that going. I found at another nursery some pre grown lengths, so they are wrapped around the poles and are already arching off to grown over the house. I know people freak about climbers on the house, but as long as you watch it and again trim it all will be fine. Ivy does not grow as fast as people think. </td></tr>
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Remember when this was happening. This was one of the first rooms i tackled back in the beginning of march, a little over 6 months ago. The beams i had crossed my fingers were there, the fire place became more beautiful than i could have ever imagined, with more than a little elbow grease. What was once 2 wired rooms have become one great big cozy room. A visit from the niece of the old lady who lived here, funnily enough confirmed that it used to be one big room, before that partly an outside porch. so much history in this place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">remember when the truck broke down with half the living<br />
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On to the present. I finally got around to taking some nice photos of the place. Its still needs more bits and bobs, and i have already moved some things around since these photos but this is were we are today. Needless to say its hard to leave this place...<br />
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My deer, every time i look at this i think of it strapped to the top of my truck with a tarp over it, driving to the closing, with a truck so full of stuff i looked like a crazy person. With two antlers piercing the tarp driving through a snow storm. Longest day every...</div>
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All my readings on old english gardens, such as Sissinghurst and Virginia Wolfs garden all talk about rooms. I love this feeling in gardens, an enclosed safe space. When you take a walk across the road onto the 30 acre tree farm to the east of my house, you have all these paths cut through these little gatherings of trees. So intimate and secret. So here i wanted to create a door way into the little scrub land beyond, shield the little road and also create a sense of enclosure. Next spring imagine that little piece of scrub full of wild flowers with a little path going off into the woods beyond...</div>
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Close up of the raspberries going in. I love this whole section being about fruit, next summer, fingers crossed there will be peaches and apples and pears and raspberries to gather. On the trippods in front in the below picture i have tomatoes interweaving with blueberries. The blueberries will grow up and over the canes and there is about 4 green tomatoes on there right now. Small steps into a veg garden.</div>
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Great inspiration shot of a store in denmark i think? Maybe the branches need to engulf the little doorway more, and i love the idea of an old gate hanging on it as well. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Andy Goldsworthy you genius ! One of my favorite British artists. Working with nature in the landscape, he uses found objects and creates amazing sculpture. He has a piece at storm king and they are dotted all over England. Im not saying my fence is anything like this (i wish) but its definitely an inspiration. I would love it to connect with the giant old oak tree on the far right of the image, somehow making the branches swirl from the tree into the fence. I had better get collecting some more branches. These are the things i get up to when left along over the weekend !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The garden is a true passion of mine. The interior has ground to a halt and all of my time (and money) is going on planting. I have been engrossed in an old book documenting Vita<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began transforming </span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;">Sissinghurst</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat and author husband, Harold Nicolson, and all she talks about is regretting not planting enough large shrubs and structural plants soon enough. That is my reasoning, that i need to use this first year to try and get as much of the long term structure in place. Such as the box woods in the front and trees. I am really waiting for end September and praying that the boxes go on sale, i want so many more!</span></span></span></div>
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This weekends flea market was amazing. So many larger pieces of furniture instead of nick nacks and little prices. Feel in love with everything I got ....the 7am wake up was worth it! </div>
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This captains bench was so unusual. I love the roped seat and want to maybe weave more through it rather than have it covered with the cushion but we will see. The rope would look beautiful but It's comfy with a cushion. Comfort may win out over style. It's a solid oiled oak and wasn't essential but as is so often the case I couldn't pass it up. </div>
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I want the ivy to grow up into the kitchen is sort of this garden room with all the doors. I have wanted somewhere easy to sit in the morning for tea my tea and toast... And it was hard to find something that went under the window. It's perfect... </div>
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In the living room I wanted some where to sit and read my garden books. This desk was perfect. It's a little more feminin as the living room is dark and masculine so adds a nice balance. Not a historic piece. Up close I think it's a bit of a repro but the price was right and it looks like it was made for the space. The lawyers bookcase stacked on top is something I picked up a couple of weeks ago with the intention of stacking it on something. It looks so great like this. Just wait till I get more stuff all over it and start using it. At the end of the day how you put it all together is key. Context and all that ! </div>
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Now this piece couldn't be more perfect. My mum and I had been talking in one of these smaller rooms about having a day bed. It was just stacked in a pile at the flea and I haggled it down but it's made for the space. It's a big heavy piece of furniture. It's empire style and is solidly made. As furniture should be. No fiberboard here. My back only just made it too tell the tale. Just wait till is covered in pillows, I have the perfect wall lights and my niece is snuggled up in there. Can't wait to style this room out !! </div>
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Finally these two handsome lawn chairs. They used up the last of my budget but was happy to go home with no money. They fold up and are engineered better than anything you will buy today. Again it was love at first sight. It's amazing when some weeks you find nothing then other times it feels like you want everything. What's your favorite ?</div>
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This is where were at. There is new screen doors that will be painted a dark grey along with the door frames and actual doors. You can see the side is still to be painted along with the chimney but its getting there. Also the gardens in the front are filled in a little bit. Im saving my pennies for some more boxwoods, i have my heart set on some topiary for either side of the kitchen door (thats on the right) . I love it!</div>
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Spending my last pennies on my favorite plants, a budleia and an allium </div>
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My white poppy flowering along with the lupins making an appearance in the back ground. White flower farm close to me has the healthiest plants and i'm really lucky with great soil. Soil as you know is the key. I am still making sure to keep adding new garden soil and feed feed feed. The plants will only ever be as good as your soil. I know its a pain. I just always pick up a bag (or three) of garden soil when at home depot. That way its always there to add when planting.</div>
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Virginia Wolf's garden at Monk's house, in Rodmell in England is a constant source of inspiration. She and her husband lived there for decades and create an amazing retreat from the world. This is my hope with the garden, a private retreat. The very creation and nurturing of it is something i love, and im happily to spend hours, days working on it. I've mentioned it before but with the garden its not anything instant. The trees will be tiny for years and years, but one day maybe, if they live there will be two rows of fruit trees all beautifully interwoven to go sit amongst. Fingers crossed i will be sitting amongst them. There is this sense of urgency however, to get things in and get them growing. You work in years not in weeks in the garden, you have to get it planted in this year otherwise you have to wait another year. Gardening you really have to have a vision of what it could be, unless your spending lots of money and can have insta garden..</div>
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Saying that here is some instant gardening, these great chairs have been taunting me at a thrift shop that i drive by ever time i go to home depot. I finally gave in and got them. Also more foxgloves. My obsession and im finally growing them from seed. Fox gloves are bi-annual. This means they grow a year then flower the next, then go to seed and sprout up every where if the conditions are good. Im doing a little experiment, i have put some seeds in the damp, natural habitat of the woods and then i have some in the seed trays as well. Lets see what happens. Turns out the kitchen may just become one big potting shed, my mother will be horrified!!</div>
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Finally removing the gigantic ugly ariel (antenna) that has been on the house for years. Also got to see the condition of the roof close up. Pretty much a miracle its not leaking so lets hope it stays that way.</div>
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Finally have some outdoor furniture and you can string these lights anywhere and it makes a place look great. The table is an old kitchen table from a yard sale and the chairs i have been lugging from apt to apt for years, they finally have a resting place in the garden. Oh and those lights make anything look pretty and cute. </div>
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One of my favorite plants, a peony blooming. It happens for such a short time but they are so beautiful. I will get more next year and plan to get different varieties to extend the blooming time. Being a weekend house is good and bad. Bad that you only have 2-3 days with your garden but it is nice to go away and then really notice the difference that happens when you are gone.</div>
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Love this old style shower mixer, one day this beauty will be mine, not yet however...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see under the old ceiling board is a mis match of some old plaster and then some lath. Nothing is simple. So what i did and it was so SO tedious to do was slide in new cement board up there in-beween those old beams and the really old beams if that makes sense. I hadn't planned to do this and it took me the better part of a day to cut and fix it in there. After all this is a bathroom and you want it to look some what clean and functional. Then i grey washed the beams and i think it all came together well </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">I blame this sink entirely for the redo of the bathroom. I had planned to leave the bathroom<br />well alone but a late night Craigslist search i came across this stone beauty for $50. Then<br />is snowballed in to the brass fixtures and the rest you are seeing. The idea of the additional<br />sink was really about making the use of the room outside the bathroom. Until there is<br />another bathroom, this helps with bedtime teeth cleaning and face washing is someone is<br />in the shower etc.<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grey grout going on. Tiling i love, easy, systematic almost theraputic. The cutting can be a little bit of a pain, but in<br />compariosn to grouting, its a breeze. Grouting is messy, tedious and at this point you just want to be done. Tile adhesive has to set for 24 hrs before the grout then the grout needs an additional 16-24 hrs. Needless to say i was on<br />day 3 of no shower. I was happy to have an excuse to be gross ;-)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The grey wall in the bathroom. Again i am in love with this color. AND look at my taxidermy quail. He matches the stone and the wall to perfection. Who doesnt want to clean their teeth and hang out with a dead bird..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those budget fixtures from china didnt turn out half bad. I should have installed it about a half foot higher but if i ever date someone who is over 6 foot then i will worry about it then. Here the tiling is all done and you can see the grey grout all dried and finished. I chose to stop the tile short of the ceiling so i could add a wood trim around the top. This is just a details to make it feel a little more period.</td></tr>
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Firstly what a weekend, I was happily indulging my inner Labrador by not showering and rolling in dirt. Well kind off. The weather was spectacular. I was up early for a drive into Connecticut to pick up a beautiful sink I found on craigalist. More on that later and then to homodepot to get some more wood trimmings for the kitchen and some more rails. I got up to the house Friday evening and finished digging the holes for the posts. Then I had an electrician come to take a look at the dryer outlet situation. As I thought the panel needs upgrading. This was expected but one only hopes that it won't need to be done. Even though it's not urgent it's something that I'm going to take for the long run and just suck it up. Otherwise I will spend all my moey on plants and come winter I will have no dryer. </div>
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On the to the main subject of this post. Hedging. So I have a very quiet road by the house. There is another 6 or so houses past mine. So I had been planning a privacy screen. You know in the summer when you drunk and rehearsing your next dance routine. Not everyone needs to see that. The photo above and below are willow hedges, something that i have been researching and love the look of. Willow is fast growing, easy and looks great.</div>
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This is my true inspiration, the hedges that run by parents farm. They are years and years old and are a great mix of beech, holly, brambles and other classic british hedges row plants. This takes years and beech is very slow growing. I chose willow as its economical in price and is fast growing and won't be too dense too quickly. I'm not looking for a wall as the view on to the barn and other trees is great. Along with the willow I planted blackberries, raspberry and also some native brambles. Nothing like a thorn to welcome people. I say I did but Courtney did the planting I was busy doing mans work( haha!) cementing posts in. </div>
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This style sofa just wants to be curled up in, by me, by my friends, by my future Labrador. So i had my heart set on it. Obviously there is no way my tiny city apt can fit one in so that it had to wait until now. Like anything its all in the planning so after searching i came across <a href="http://shopcomfortclub.com/">shopcomfortclub.com </a>. My go to's believe it or not are the likes of a jcpenny, macys etc etc as they always have some sort of imitation of these classics furniture pieces. They were all still pricey, sofas in general are pricey, in the way that you would rather go on holiday for a week instead of buying a sofa.<br />
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But after countless googeling and searching i came across the web comfort club web site (terrible name i know) . You have to have some blind faith and also really look at the dimensions. The cheaper ones generally are scaled down so it helps to look and know the dimensions of the one you really like such as the RH one. After checking it all out and getting the fabric swatch (i ordered the fabric swatch and hoarded it for about 2 years in all honesty) i went ahead and ordered it. It ships free and came in 3 days. Amazing and its all that i hoped it would be. Its a times like this it makes sense to but new instead of searching craigslist then trying to get delivery etc etc. Check out the web site, its limited in color but you cant beat the turn around time and also the free delivery and most of all the price. Trust me there the best prices out there. I think it could do with some better images of the product in situ on the site but the chap is super helplful and responsive and it worked out great.</div>
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This weekend i had a few people up on Friday so it was a good excuse to slow down a little and start enjoying the house. Of course i didn't do that. I picked up a dishwasher, a security camera and then realized that i hadn't been to the grocery store or the liquor store and they close at 7 (well the liquor store does, who cares about the groceries). SO friends arrived to a empty pantry and dwindling booze. Luckily they travel with booze so all was not lost, and pizza and beer are close at hand. </div>
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Saturday everyone was put too work, cleaning, painting and doing home depot runs. Good times for all. The MAJOR accomplishment was the fence starting to go in. What a pain this was. The enthusiasm for digging lasts for about 2 holes, then the largest boulders turn up and it takes the two of us to roll them out. David was amazing! he worked like a maniac digging with me until it started to rain. Great progress was made, cementing as we go, and tamping down the ones that are not. I can't believe how good it looked. We even planted some raspberry and black berry brambles to get the thing started to be covered. The road is really quiet there is 6 houses past mine, and the neighbors were all stopping to say hi so its not really for crazy privacy, i just wanted more a boundary. It creates a feeling of security, this is my little spot. Its a British thing, you know staking out your land, great British empire and all that! There is a lot of wild brambles up in the hills so they will get transplanted down as well. The look is going to be a rambling english hedge. Full of brambles and cow parsley and other things over time. The birds will love the fruit and in essence they become a nature corridor. Not that there isn't anywhere for the birds right now, the house back on the Appalachian preserve. I would love beech but they are incredibly slow growing and $$$, but i may pop a few in and see what happens. I am thinking about some willow as this mixes in well and will be a nice back drop to the flower beds that will eventually go in-front. Willow has an amazing flexibility to it so it can be grown in to arches and all sorts of shapes, over time. This garden gets so much sun and the soil is amazing. I can't wait to get into it more. As much as i love the interior my heart is outside in the soil. What i love about gardening is like the opposite of painting a room. It take patience and time. Something that happens over years and you can see it unfold. You remember when you planted something, you see it grow up. Theres something really rewarding about it. My plant file is long and way beyond my budget. I keep answering the home depot questionnaires in hope that i will win the gift card! Fingers crossed.</div>
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<br />Mr Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02937751565927066114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651631373872806906.post-19239611249226372162015-03-30T16:29:00.002-04:002015-04-03T06:28:12.133-04:00Stove face lift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">od these photos look bad...</span>but look at what i am working with. I have been wanting to buy a new stove. I found the brand NXR at AJ madison which does a cheap version of the viking stove which i love. But i just can deal with getting rid of something that works just fine and spend 2K on a stove. So whilst googleing i found a couple of things that i thought would be worth trying out. First is the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001W8O5KK/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B001VMHBJO&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=08GC0B8DK8ZDTS6CJ20F">stainless steel paint</a> which i just ordered online. VERY SKEPTICAL. Many many light layers later..Then the other product was a stainless steel film also just ordered on amazon. Not sure on how it will stand up to the heat but as its on the glass panel on the front which stays cool we will see. Supposedly it's meant to work. Worst case i waisted 70 bucks but i think it turned out at the very least better than it was before and will do for a year or so till i can splurge on the new stove.</div>
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See the final product below. Im still looking into replacing the knobs for a chunkier effect and with another cutting board strategically placed in front of the dash at the back i think it could pass. Also helps that you get too see the new grey walls which make it almost disappear.</div>
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Also notice i made the window opening smaller, like a viking. The easiest part was running a piece of chrome closet rail over the handle to get the industrial look. Simple home depot purchase cut to size and threaded over the existing handle. Thats a piece of the film on the table in front. To be honest the film is the most succesful but was also the biggest pain. Air bubbles the first couple of trys but just patience and applying very slowly helped. The paint is easy but again just do very light layers. It is by no means a viking stove but once its all "styled" right i'm hoping i can live with it. What do you think?</div>
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Now on the left you can see the "u" reattached with the shark bite fixtures. They are more pricey than just copper that you would solder in to place but they is no risk of you soldering badly and leaking and then having to re drain the system. The other photo is me very triumphantly removing the base board that i needed too. This was a successful Friday morning!! Interestingly enough the color behind the base board is a grey color, darker than i want to do but non the less there it is. Its like the house knows me!</div>
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Me newly confident that i didn't flood the house, so i took to drilling a large hole through the wall of the house to move the gas line, not recommended but i really wanted to move the stove. All went well and by lunch time on Friday i had got a lot done. How to reward myself? A trip to home depot and then on to home goods. Yeh this is really adrenaline causing activities out here :-)</div>
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Don't worry i haven't lost my mind and painted the walls pink. This is spakle, it goes on pink and dries white. This is another boring process shot of me filling the walls and somewhat prepping them for paining. They are staying quite rough, to go with the beams and also because i can have them rough, how i like them. Not to everyones taste, and in the city when i was dry walling and plastering i hated getting them perfect, so tedious, so its nice just to have a more crackled and hand done effect. The main idea was to draught proof. Any large gaps i to spray foam in and the covered with plaster. </div>
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Okay this project was not planned. I had two half used cans of paint remover in the city apt that i brought up with me on Thursday night. No idea why but here we go. So after plumbing and moving and filling and sanding the room all day Friday i thought why not just spray a little paint remover on here. So thats what the first photo is. Removing paint is possibly the messiest thing to do. Its disgusting. You can't get it on you as it stings your skin. It goes everywhere, and once its on you have to work really hard to wipe it off. Just not a project to do unless you really have the patience to do it without any gauratee what would be underneath. Why would i do this? Its was Friday at 7pm and i had nothing better to do. So after scraping away it look like the first photo. Not great but i thought maybe i could work with an antique white look??? But look at the second photo, its on the top right. On the far right of the fireplace there is a tiny black rectangle at the top of the "leg". This was under a very hard layer of white paint that i chipped off. It looked like the wood was stained dark dark brown, or black. It was 9 pm by this point. No chemical was going to get the white/brown layer off. SO i got the blowtorch out. Should have been a heat gun, but needs must. I went to town. Heating that paint till it was a bubbling mess and scraping it off. Went through two scraping knives. BUT look at it. Its amazing. I love a black fireplace. BUT an original, sort of Ebony fireplace, with all that patina and age. Its insane. Or i am. Midnight i stopped, i figured tiredness, a naked flame and a wood house with a taxidermy deer in close vicinity was a recipe for disaster. But i can't tell you how chuffed i am with that fireplace. If i was picking a fireplace to buy it would be this, and weirdly enough i built a fire surround for the city apt and its nearly the double of this. That was three years ago, and thats just plain boring painted black. I think you get the point, i love this surround.</div>
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What an amazing photo! yes thats my hand and a sander. I know your so interested. I took the damn photo so you have to look at it. This is just to smooth some of the plaster lines to make them look "worn" in. Yes this is how i think. But look at the other photo. That colour. I would love to say i spent hours selecting the perfect shade of browny cream. I looked at farrow and ball's colour card and had it matched to a cheaper paint. Matt finish of course. Once the paint goes on the room feels so finished, or at least it feels like a room you can be in. I really lucked out with the colour, its warm and neutral and lovely all at the same time.<br />
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Its obviously not completely done, but this is how the walls and ceiling should be. There needs more furniture, more bits and bobs. But on the whole you get the vibe. There is a large jute rug then smaller animal skins over it so it doesn't become to hunting lodgy. There is another skin on the way and i just really like layering all the rugs together. I really like sitting in here and looking at the ceiling. Sounds weird i know but its so great to look at. Im trying the light fixture suspended from the ceiling and i quite like it. I think i may get another one for the right side of the sofa. They are from restoration hardware, as much as i hate to have RH lamps as there is so many great vintage ones out there. We will see. I had originally planned this for over the dining room table but I feel like it will continuously evolved so there is no harm in wiring it in and trying. I do like it coming down from the ceiling over the table. Also i never imagined the odd furniture together but it really does, again for now. The chocolate brown chair will probably move back into the dining room and i would love another leather arm chair but the hunt will go on for that.</div>
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Also the fire place needs it wood burning stove. Im researching as i have found this guy. Totally ventless, the flu is "fake". Im not sure if it looks that good in really life, or if I'm being seduced by the tea pot, but this is the top runner. It will throw of some heat, give the ambiance of a fire, but the illusive crackle and smell of wood smoke will be missing. This is about 4k cheaper than what i would have to do to install a real wood burning fire, and its better for the environment. Just thought i would trot that fact out to sell myself a little more on it. Again doesn't have to happen immediately but knowing me i will order it this week. SO much more to write but I'm beat and wanted to get these photos up. Would love to hear your thoughts and questions in the comments...</div>
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One more thing, here are the before shots of the two rooms before i put them together<img src="webkit-fake-url://31182cb6-4baa-4779-b8a2-04a51d2f8547/image.tiff" /></div>
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So much happened this weekend i'm doing two post, yeah lucky you! This maybe the more interesting installment anyway as I'm sure pulling plaster down is wearing thin. After all that demo, and clearing up of the demo which is inevitably the worst part i needed a little instant design. Im a craigslist addict, call it the thrifty in me (its a budget out of necessity not choice). Anyway i saw some images of an old work bench and it was a 30 min drive further upstate from my house. I dragged my unsuspecting friend David with me, this was after waking him up at 7 am to do a run to the dump. Yes these people choose to be friends with me. I'm eternally grateful and very blessed.</div>
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In a barn at the end of a muddy track, which i had my doubts about ever getting out of again, and especially with my luck in regard to the truck over the weekend, was the below bench. Covered in straw and in the company of 2 horses and a rather freindly old cow. A nice old man showed me it blissfully unaware he was in the presence of a gay who needed a new kitchen island! So that was that and in the back of the truck it went. I did ask if i could take the cow too but he just chuckled. Thats for another weekend. The truck made it up the track and we made it home safe and sound. </div>
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The bench is so SO perfect. Its almost the exact same shape as the other table that is in the kitchen, so they will sit together, one solid structure next to the other more beaten up and weathered. Im thinking this one at the height it is and then the other one is lower so you can sit around it. Or the other one will be raised up to the same height so its like a bar you can sit on stools around. All in good time. I will mess around with these again and again i am sure.</div>
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This photos a little blurry but the editing and filtering photos are on insta, here I'm just going for it so you will have to excuse my terrible grammar and sometimes odd photo. Those top two drawers are like the old printmakers drawers repurposed in there. So its full of little section for things. I love things. I already adjusted it a little so the cutting knives go in there. I can't wait to get all ocd and organized stuff in there. </div>
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Heres a clearer shot. David is a cleaning matching so he scrubbed it down, then took a light sanding block and rubbed it all over. Then conditioned it with a beeswax so it looked amazing after all his hard work. Space at the bottom for pans, cutting boards on the right....Oh and its the perfect place for tea! Im so so ready to paint the kitchen but i need to pull the horrible stucco ceiling down in here. Im just finishing puling old plaster out of the living room so i got to rally up again for this room. Its like a knock on effect in here. I want to replace the sink, see the story below. But before i do that i have to move the stove and gas line, but before i do that i have to move the base board heat. Thats this weekend. Im going to sweat some pipes and move the base board heat, then ideally get the stove moved, so that i can then do the ceiling and move the sink and then paint....phew that all seems a lot but little by little.</div>
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SO another craigslist hunt ensued later that day on saturday. This took us into conneticut to what was an abandoned house, see that me in camp, look hard there i am. Well this turned out to be the wrong house but anyway you get the idea. In the basement was a sink very similar to the one below on the left. I love these giant old soap stone sinks. The grey, the size, the stone, all great in my books. I didnt take a pic of the one that was in the basement, it was cracked and not in good shape, and also been badly patched with what looked like concrete. All of this would have not normally stopped me, but there was three of us, and there was no way in hell we could move it. Were people stronger many years ago? Or did they care less about breaking a finger under a stone sink? I admitted defeat on this one and gave up. It was a good try for a really great sink, and i was trying to do something different that the white farmhouse sink. But that is what i am going back to i think. I have toyed with the idea of old galvanized wash buckets but at the end of the day i still want some elements that look polished and together. We will see what happenes but for now i am back to the white butler sink, not a bad option....i will continue to search craigslist, eBay and all of that.</div>
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Other than that there was 2 stops at home depot as i feel is going to be the norm. I purchased a very exciting new vacuum cleaner that i am sure i will destroy within weeks, plaster dust i am sure is not the best thing for it, but the shop vac was just not cutting it. As i mentioned David is a cleaning machine so he mopped and cleaned and vacuumed the day away. I was so happy about that. I like to rip it apart but my patience was wearing thin on the clean up. Oh we also stopped somewhere in Connecticut and some nice families house and i got a bed frame, the old spindle kind. It was a double but i attached it to a different from to fit the queen. I will post a pic another day about that. The whole upstairs of the house is really just going to have to stay as it is for some time. Im just focusing on getting beds there for workers, i mean friends. Side table, lamps will come in time and i love getting all of that so I'm in no rush. This coming weekend i would like to get through it without a trip to the mechanic, so lets all cross our fingers that the truck (miranda she has been named) makes it through without costing me any more money.....</div>
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