wall unit with blackout drapes and uplight

shrinking door, 32" to 24"

Tomorrow I hang the door and plaster and paint the wall

The smaller door creates space for a kitchenette in the studio apt while preserving inside access to the main house.

TOILET !!!

A toilet by any other name :-)

KOHLER AquaPiston Toilet Flushing Technology: Kohler’s Most Powerful Gravity-Fed Flush.  Yippiee!! or should I say "Yippoo!"

Security doors front and back.

Allows for more airflow while keeping the house-critters in and outdoor-critters out

yesterday bookshelves today toilet

3/4" Birch Plywood.  

I think I will whitewash it next:

White Washing Birch

Q: I just had a wall unit installed made of birch plywood and would like to white wash it so the grain will show. Do I use oil based or water based, and how?A: You can use either. Several companies make a white stain. Alternatively, you can make your own by buying white latex paint and reducing it 100% with water. Flood the stain or paint on, and wipe it off immediately, leaving as much or as little as you want to get the look you desire. Let the stain dry, then top coat with a waterbased polyurethane.

music box and train

Music Box Intro

Music box from the turn of twentieth

Train at the Historic Fayetteville Depot

Now Arsagas Cafe

Living room and guest room floors done

The living room and the guest room floors are finally done  .

Mirror in living room

Acid stained concrete floor

New VCT in guest room

 Nik-Nacs on old oak law book case

Old School vinyl composition tile replacement

Poot's room pre VCT

A little too much Adhesive 

Old oak tree in backyard

Oak Tree

Cleared the back yard out some

View of back of house from

sunset in the livingroom

When the sun is low in the west

Backlit barn 

The evening sun backlights this painting on the windowsill 

Pooter in the chair

I call this photo   "Poot In Chair"  hehehe

Notice the Stainless Steel Cube, please :-)

Mom's Kia

She is free to roam in her Kia.  I know she likes it better than the Volvo wagon because she always made me drive the wagon and she wont let me drive the Kia :-)

New wall creates studio apt out of dining room, laundry room and side entrance

New wall separates living room from old dining room.  Creating a studio apt by repurposing dining room , laundry room and side entrance hall.

Plywood wall on the living room side before texture paint and green paint.

Wall with texture paint under green paint, plus tryptic oil painting.

Old sheet for drama and mystery :-)

Living room comes together

Studio apt side of wall with pine paneled alcove harboring armoire and dresser.

Stacked washer and dryer now in kitchen liberating old laundry room for studio apt. bathroom.

  View away from green wall towards hall and bedrooms

Mom's 78th Birthday 07/15/2013  

preparing the living room concrete for acid stain

living room concrete prep

living room prep part 2

Floor Sander

Floor sanded, scraped and scrubbed arrgghh.

All the wild variations in the slab will contribute to the acid stain result.

Order acid stain from direct colors in shawnee oklahoma.

http://www.directcolors.com/products/concrete-acid-stain/

Chairaholic cat

Punkinpootrpiepus

Loves her new widowsill

chair 1961

Platform Bed with shelf and samsonite beauty bags

Vinyl chair

Lots of cute houses like this one made of the native stone

aqua bed making, metal roof, concrete acid stain

Aqua platform bed with shelf

pantone pool green

Acid stained concrete again with sealer

New Metal Roof

California and Hawaii native gets Nervous about pending winter ice storms in Arkansas