Pandemic Projects - Small Summit Victories
Honestly, with all that's been going on in the world, it seems like talking about house projects is the most mundane of things, and almost disrespectful. But honestly, this weekend, it's all I have had the energy to do. So this weekend, at the Summit house, we've managed to knock off a a number of small, nagging projects:
We finished re-doing the bar — now if I could only have people over for cocktails....
Some details:
Thanks to some chairs from my friend Rachel, I set up a new seating area. We also framed an old family photo we found and hung it by the family wedding dress photos along the stairs (the photo on the far left, above the chair, is my grandmother when she was young).
I cleaned off the front porch, plants the front planters, moved a table out, and cut down the curtain that did not really work out there, much as I wanted it to (oh well). Now it's the perfect place for evening cocktails, though it would be nice to come up with a way to scare off the mosquitos.
We trimmed the front rhododendrons and arborvitae so you can see out the front window. Patrick mowed our yard and the neighbor's. We pulled vine off the house (without falling out of Beatrix's window, though that was a close one). We gave bee balm and milkweed to friends (there's more, if you need some).
I successfully used a magic eraser to get red ink off the dining room wallpaper, at least enough so you can only see it if you are looking.
We hung lamps on our wall, so we can each read in bed. We hung up a big peacock picture (also acquired from Rachael, are you seeing a trend here?).
We hung art in the sunroom. As part of this we discovered we had more wall space for art, and a plethora of frames even, but honestly not much more art that needed hanging. I don't even know how that happened, but it's a predicament I have to get myself out of. We put new knobs on the cabinet doors (you can just see them on the left of the Martini and Rossi picture).
The "piano girl" picture went back up over the piano, and some other pictures in the entrance to the sunroom.
I painted and contact-papered and reorganized the linen closet, with Beatrix's help.
And Beatrix learned how to make focaccia from Ximena.
We finished re-doing the bar — now if I could only have people over for cocktails....
Some details:
Thanks to some chairs from my friend Rachel, I set up a new seating area. We also framed an old family photo we found and hung it by the family wedding dress photos along the stairs (the photo on the far left, above the chair, is my grandmother when she was young).
I cleaned off the front porch, plants the front planters, moved a table out, and cut down the curtain that did not really work out there, much as I wanted it to (oh well). Now it's the perfect place for evening cocktails, though it would be nice to come up with a way to scare off the mosquitos.
We trimmed the front rhododendrons and arborvitae so you can see out the front window. Patrick mowed our yard and the neighbor's. We pulled vine off the house (without falling out of Beatrix's window, though that was a close one). We gave bee balm and milkweed to friends (there's more, if you need some).
I successfully used a magic eraser to get red ink off the dining room wallpaper, at least enough so you can only see it if you are looking.
We hung lamps on our wall, so we can each read in bed. We hung up a big peacock picture (also acquired from Rachael, are you seeing a trend here?).
We hung art in the sunroom. As part of this we discovered we had more wall space for art, and a plethora of frames even, but honestly not much more art that needed hanging. I don't even know how that happened, but it's a predicament I have to get myself out of. We put new knobs on the cabinet doors (you can just see them on the left of the Martini and Rossi picture).
The "piano girl" picture went back up over the piano, and some other pictures in the entrance to the sunroom.
I painted and contact-papered and reorganized the linen closet, with Beatrix's help.
And Beatrix learned how to make focaccia from Ximena.
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