Backyard Plants

The garden is doing well in all this heat and rain. Flowers everywhere too! The yards still need landscaping work, but at least they're spacious and leafy green.

Lemon Tree

Flowers

Peppers and cucumbers

Tomatoes and Basil

Upstairs Hallway

It's a dark, tiny little space, but now the floor has been sanded and is ready for a nice shiny finish! Still contemplating wall treatments for this small space. Maybe some vintage-inspired wall paper. And no, the floor sanding never ends around here!

Welcome Rose and Fern!

Joining the family this weekend are two sweet little 10 week old Sheltie mix puppies; sisters Rose (black) and Fern (brown). We'll just see how long those nice shiny floors last with these two running around! They'll be bunking in the unfinished laundry room for the time being. Hopefully the cats appreciate, or at least accommodate, the new additions. Remember, rescue when you can!

Master Bedroom Windows

We've been working on painting the master bedroom lately. The windows and woodwork were a complete mess with painting peeling off everywhere. The walls, woodwork and ceiling all have several coats of primer now and the woodwork has its first coat of paint. One more to go and we can start on the walls!

 

The Bathroom Sink

The upstairs bathroom has been a long, slow project. It has a floor now (yay!), a working shower and toilet and some fancy new lighting fixtures...but still no sink/vanity and no mirror. Well, now there is a sink and counter top. It just happens to be laying in the middle of the living room floor until there is a vanity to put it on! It's a lovely green granite style. Getting it upstairs should be tons o' fun.

And We're Back

It's been a little while! But life sometimes has more pressing issues that need tending to and frankly, we needed a little bit of a break once the house was liveable and the construction loan was up.
At any rate, here are a few decor pics from around the house...