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Spring 2012 Pictures

This weekend Thomas was able to borrow his work camera and took some pictures of the house. I enjoy looking back through pictures to see our progress, so here is the house in Spring 2012!

The front. There have been a lot of changes this year... New picket fence, gate, arbor, new door, lots of plants, a new oak tree... We hope the next couple years will bring a new paint job, at least one of the spruce trees cut down, more flower beds and much more.


I love this angle. Our new flag! Now we just need to find a matching Canadian flag to go on the other side. I love our rain chains and rain barrels... They are very therapeutic.



 Side of the house. The new tree is a Scarlet Oak... It will turn bright red in the fall and will get huge.


 The back of the house. Major changes to the back have been a new privacy fencee, lots of perennials, hot tub and rain barrels.

This is the side gate in the backyard. We have clematis climbing up the side of the gate. I love the beautiful flowers. 


Clematis!

Another angle of the back. We planted a new hydrangea this weekend and I love it... It's pink and I'm thinking we are going to have to get more.

We have orange trumpet vines and pink/yellow honesuckle climbing up the fence.


The living room. We will be getting the rest of our sectional this month and I hope to get a new rug soon after that... Plans for this room include finishing/staining the beams and woodwork, possibly doing something different on the ceiling (we are thinking tin ceiling?) and refinishing the floors.

Another angle into the parlor.


Dining room

Kitchen

Blue bedroom with furniture. We don't really use this room

My grandmother's roll top desk in the room.


Well, that's about all the pictures for now... I'm hoping we can finish some more woodwork this weekend, so I will post if that happens!

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  1. Sharon KwilterMay 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM

    The doorway between the dining room and parlor just looks like it needs colonnades. I wonder if it used to have them and they were removed.

    Nice photos, thanks for sharing.

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  2. The Bois BungalowMay 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM

    You are right. There were colonnades and built in bookcases with glass fronts between the parlor/living room and the dining/living room. The owner's children (who I met and let tour the house) told me that their parents had them torn out in the 30's to open the space up. It make me so sad.. I wish they had kept them, but you can't change something that's already been done.

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