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Italian magazine cover from the 1920s

Powder Room – Act Three

It’s a tiny space (25 sq. ft.) but the mirror falling down required me to repaint and rethink the accessories. After three paint colors and a Powder Room Mirror Fail due to a rusted screw, the space is finally complete. There’s a color change that’s difficult to capture in photographs so I decided to provide [...]

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Our restored house numbers sign ready for Halloween

Our House Numbers Sign Restored

Bringing seasonal color back to the bottom of the driveway topped my list of outdoor tasks. Now it’s done! When we first moved into our house, one of the neighbors mentioned how much she enjoyed seeing our house sign, with it’s four seasoning paintings, when she walked her dog each morning. Built by the previous [...]

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house sign without the internal frame

Restoring Our House Numbers Sign

My first outdoor project is to fix up our house marker so it can once again change with the seasons. Down at the bottom of our driveway there’s a large white wooden marker that acts as our house numbers sign.  Since we can’t be seen from the road, and the driveway turns up a hill, [...]

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huge old trees in the backyard

Home Without Power

What I did before, and what I learned after hurricane Irene stopped by our house. That old witch visited millions of us on the East Coast but, of course, we knew she was coming. For a couple of life-long apartment dwellers, this was an initiation to country life a mere two months after the move.  [...]

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gilded wood soleil mirror

Powder Room Mirror Fail

A new mirror would alter the look of my guest bath. My powder room mirror fell off the wall and crashed into the sink. That was several months ago, before we moved into our house full time. Fortunately, I wasn’t here – no need to describe how scary that would have been. There wasn’t an [...]

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