The Sow's Ear

Look!  Here's a picture of yarn in a dyepot:

And that's the extent of yarn you are going to see in this post.

Ok, now let me tell you about another project I've been working on.

This is how my laundry room looked when we bought the house 6 years ago.

An abandoned house's laundry room?  Or the actual one when we bought the house?  A little bit of both.

Scary! I don't even want to show you what the powder room that is off of this room looked like back then.

Early on, we ripped out the cabinets, floor, and added a new utility sink, washer/dryer, tin ceiling,ceiling light and slate floor ourselves.

I took this shot after I finished my project, so you have to wait to the end of the post to see it.

  One thing we didn't change was doing anything with a walled up doorway that used to lead into the kitchen.  Our stove is on the other side of it and that monster sure isn't moving!  The inset in the doorway was a great place to pile junk like old mops, brooms, and other things that always fell down just when you didn't want them to.  But as anyone who lives in a old house knows, there is never enough storage space and there certainly isn't in my house, the house of THREE closets.  Yay.  We have an unusual kitchen that we designed ourselves using antiques from auctions, and a couple of pieces from (dare I say it?)  TRASH PICKING (the shock! the horror! I can still hear my mother saying 6 years ago, "don't do it, you will RUIN your kitchen!"  That's right, she wanted us to keep the 5 different types of white cabinets that the kitchen then had.)  This is one wall in our kitchen, on the one side of the room the ceiling height is 12+ feet:

As you can see I enjoy color.

This was my focus for the past week.

It started here, and I painted the trim of the doorway in blue using milkpaint.  Then I hung black and white striped wallpaper (saved from an old project from our previous house)  in the inset.

Cut wood and trim pieces with a nice egg and dart pattern and set to painting them:

And adding some more detail with paint:

This is what the new shelves look like now:

I absolutely LOVE them.

We just hung a new to us, but actually old door I scored at a yard sale for $20.  It replaces a solid (no window) new door that I didn't like at all.

I've only just begun the painting.

Comments

[Nana Kaye]

Just surfing through Christian Knitters and enjoyed your overstuffed room. It all looks so awesome.