Colonial Revival Revival

Our New Pantry

1940colonialrevival — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:56:55 +0000

Since our fridge is now in the place where the original pantry was, we turned an old coat closet in the breakfast room into our new pantry!

This is what we’ve been using the last 2 years as a pantry.
Not awesome.

Look how clean!

Ariel had a fantastic time organizing this (for the 3rd time this week).
It is SO nice to have this done!

Some Kitchen Renovation!

1940colonialrevival — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:50:13 +0000

Three + July 4ths later and Dad is finally doing some more work in the kitchen!
Our kitchen was SO icky!
So far, we’ve taken up 3 layers of linoleum floor and had the hardwood refinished.
New appliances.
New lower cabinets (although, some still need to be built).
New upper cabinet doors and hardware.
New wall color.

One cool idea Dad had was to take out the existing pantry (the one filled with slugs, mice, and squirrels) and create an area for the fridge.

This picture is from the house listing.
You can see why we couldn’t resist this charming kitchen.

You do not want to know all the nasty stuff we found in here! ew.

Daddy framing out the arch and doing electrical work.

TA DA!
Isn’t it lovely?

Screen Door

1940colonialrevival — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:35:46 +0000

Did you miss us? Sorry we’ve not been our regular blogging selves. We’ll try and pick up the pace again, especially since Daddy has been doing lots more projects lately.

One project Dad did for us this spring, was to put a much needed screen door off of the kitchen mudroom area.
Now we can fry bacon and chicken and it won’t smell like a fast food place because we can open the door!
Dad and Ariel were out flea marketing one weekend on the side of the highway some men were giving away free ugly chairs…so they pulled over (not for the free ugly chairs) because they had a screen door for sale.
The door happened to be the right size and in great condition (with original brass hardware to match our house!).
Dad got it for a mere $10!

Patio Furniture

1940colonialrevival — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:39:33 +0000

We had wicker patio furniture that rotted.
Lately, we’ve been on the hunt for some “new” vintage metal patio furniture.
We didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so we’ve been looking around at flea markets and yard sales.
A few weekends ago, we found the cutest vintage patio set at a junk shop down in North Carolina.
It was covered in rust and who knows what but we thought it had a cool design on it.
We got it for a verrrry good price and after Dad sanded off the rust, we spray painted it black.
Now it looks brand new.

Strawberries!

1940colonialrevival — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:15:41 +0000

We’ve been very busy with gardening lately.
Yesterday, Dad bought us 3 vintage strawberry planters and today he bought us GORGEOUS strawberry plants at the flea market.
Daddy was extra nice and even helped us to plant the strawberries (they were difficult to get through the openings of the pot).
The plants already had large strawberries growing.
Hopefully, they will stay happy & healthy!

A New Garden Path

1940colonialrevival — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:25:18 +0000

Lately, the backyard has been giving us a headache…we’ve been trying to figure out what to do back there.
We decided that we want a garden path put down leading to what will be an “English cottage garden architectural salvage window bench” piece (it’ll make sense when we blog about it later…as in when Dad and Owen build it).
We have TONS of rocks all over our property which was perfect for creating the path.
Owen hauled the rocks for us and Dad made the path for us (in his usual professional manner).

To the right of the path we’ve decided to plant different varieties of hostas, ferns, fairy lilies, and other shade plants.
As soon as there’s no more chance for a frost, we’ll get to planting.

Snow!

1940colonialrevival — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:09:32 +0000

Now that you saw the rat post…we thought we’d show you some other pictures from when it snowed a few weeks ago.

R.O.U.S.

1940colonialrevival — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:03:52 +0000

Here is another “ew” post.
For the first time since we moved to VA, we got snow that stuck.
Ariel & Owen went outside to play in the snow.
When they got to the bottom of our driveway (looking for pretty things to take pictures of) they found this:

This my friends is…a rat.
It was a big as a small dog.
Ew.

The neighbors had warned us about really long rats that come out of basement toilets (good thing we got rid of ours!).
We thought they were exaggerating. Apparently not.

Adri thinks his claws look like Saruman’s fingernails (you know? when he looks into his crystal ball thing?).
Ariel thinks it escaped from the set of Princess Bride…

Pecans

1940colonialrevival — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:54:15 +0000

A few weeks ago, we were baking Grandma a 3 layer dessert for her 81st birthday.
That same morning, we purchased a bag of pecans for the crust of the dessert.
When we opened up the bag…lo and behold! They were hairy!
It was one of the nastiest things we’ve ever seen in our cooking experience.
The nuts had spider webby things all over them!
It was ew!
Here’s a picture.

ewwwwwww!
Mom returned them to the grocery store (they were grossed out too) and got a new bag (and a different brand!) of pecans.
Happy Birthday Grandma!

Turtle RIP

1940colonialrevival — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:15:57 +0000

Sad news.
Ok…so we bought this WAY cute moss covered cement turtle statue thing last year from Old Time Pottery.
It was SO cute!
Sadly, the other day while we were taking a turn around the backyard, we found turtle dead.
Orange dead.

Ewwwww!
Turtle has orange insides!
What is this madness?!
We like tuttles.
Turtle RIP.