day 8 ... window & day 9... red

day 8... window

One of the things that I love about our new home is the amount of light that pours into the rooms from the many tall windows. The living room has a 23 foot ceiling and 2 stories of windows and a southern exposure. It is rainy and grey outside but still bright inside. In the spring we will have plantation shutters installed to replace the blinds. I am also thinking about hanging 104 inch tall robins egg blue silk curtains. The curtain rod would be at the same height as the library ladder bar. I will make my final decision after the shutters are in. What do you think, curtains or not?




day 9... red

Lunch today was a firecracker roll. It wasn't as spicy as I had hoped but it was yummy none the less.

day 4...

 from a high angle...

Today's photography challenge gives me a chance to show a little bit of what we have done with our house in the past 5 weeks.  When we moved to Houston we left most of our furniture with Kate. We moved into our new home with just a few of our favorite things from Maryland and some items we picked up at Ikea to hold us over until we found a house. This is the view from the bridge hallway at the top of the stairs looking down into the living room before our new furniture arrived. Below is a photo of that room taken from the hallway outside of the master bedroom.

 The photo over the mantel is part of the new living room furnishings. We hung it the night before so it would be in place when the delivery men arrive to set up the new things.


These are my after shots.....

  We still have to buy a new kitchen table, counter stools and wall hangings. I also need to make curtains and figure out the lighting but it is coming along.