More of That Old House

More walking down memory lane with pictures of the old house and reminding myself that it didn't  look this good when we moved in, so I need to hang in there with this house!

This is the only picture I can find of the living room. It was a really big space, open to the dining room and kitchen. You can't see the alcove with the piano from this angle, it's just around the corner behind the couch.


When my daughter moved out, her room became a guest room. At first all I had was this log bed, the top of a bunkbed, (my kids all take their nice beds with them, leaving me with whatever I can find).  I made new black and white bedding and curtains to freshen it up.


But it wasn't  long before I needed a double bed to accommodate guests. It's hard to see, but all I did was hang two different fabrics for a headboard and hang a wreath over that.


I had a plethora of dressers for some reason, so 2 of them made it in here. I tried to keep the clutter/decor to a minimum.


This must have been a bigger room than I remember, with a double bed, 2 dressers, this table and chairs, and a wing chair! You can see the curtains I made to match the "headboard" on the left.

 

 

Last of all, I had a really big laundry room that was also my craft room. It was filled with quilts and many of my old favorites that didn't fit anywhere else, but made me happy when I was here either doing laundry or sewing!

 

 It's good to be reminded about this last house that started out a lot like this new one, but ended up so cute!

Repurposed Project: Using Old Crates for Office Furniture

I had a couple old crates sitting around in the backyard. I used them for outdoor tables, or shelves on the patio. Sometimes they made it up on stage as VBS props.

But I needed something to hold the fax machine and printer in my craft room when I sold the little dresser they used to sit on, so I had Husband screw them together and attach wheels to the bottom.

They make pretty good office furniture.

I left it untouched, in all its shabby glory.

The wheels came off an old office chair, nothing fancy.

I didn't bother to clean up, this is how the craft room usually looks, projects all over the place!

Craft Room: An Empty Nest Has Its Upside

This year we became official empty-nesters. It has been coming for a while; one by one, each kid went off to college, lived in the dorms, but came home for vacations and summers. So their rooms remained theirs and I got the pleasure of cleaning them, but not using them.

 Then the oldest got married and I gained an office.    

           

   That was nice.

 Then the second moved out of the dorms and into an apartment. She took most of her furniture and some of her stuff, and I gained a guest room.

I could get used to this.

Then we sold the house and bought a smaller one. I lost my office, my guestroom, and my laundry/craft room.

 
 I set up a space in the garage for my sewing machine and fabric. It was often too cold or too hot to actually work there, but any port in a storm, right?

 After some consideration, the third bedroom became a bedroom/playroom for my grandson, rather than a grown-up guest room. It made me happy to have a totally kid space again and, frankly, I was hoping to lure him over as much as possible. And a grownup could still use it if necessary.

I  still had one kid living at home. Then he decided he wanted to get married. I thought about the fact that he still had 2 years of college to go, that he only had a part time job, that he had never lived away from home and was very young; then I thought about gaining a craft room. hmm...what to do?

      It was a lovely wedding.


Coming soon: my new craft room!