The Bois Bungalow

It has been a while since I posted, but we have actually accomplished a lot. We finished the planter boxes for the front. Pruned back the roses. Our cacti are gigantic!  Stripped a door down. and then painted said door.  Cleaned up door hardware. Watched our mums from last year bloom like crazy.  We have also completed a bunch of trim work in the house after stripping, sanding, staining and polying them. I will post pictures soon!  We are hoping to get to some other projects soon.  Projects on our plate: -Painting kitchen table/bench to match the kitchen cabinets  -Painting kitchen walls and trim  -Pulling up laminate in kitchen and refinishing the wood floors in kitchen -Woodwork in parlor  We are hoping to check several of those off before January. Wish us luck! 

Just a heads up, this post is going to be full of pictures of the yard. I wish I had taken more pictures earlier when more was in bloom... We are having the lawn sprayed with Pylex to kill the crab grass. It is amazing stuff. We are going to reseed later in the fall. The trumpet vines have taken off this year. They didn't bloom much, but the greenery is nice against the fence. I love our oak tree. It provides a great shade canopy and the dogs love chasing the squirrels that live in it. Our rain barrels are still going strong. We haven't lost any goldfish this year, and the water plants are growing like crazy.  The climbing roses are also growing like mad. We only got one bloom out of them this year, but I appreciate them anyway. Clematis survived this year :) It is pretty delicate and the dogs like running up the fence and broke the one last year. We planted several new plants this year. This lily is one of them.  The delphinium was lo...

Well, hubby has decided that he's tired of all the unfinished work around here... So he's been sanding/staining and doing the poly on some of the woodwork that's been almost ready for over a year. It has been great to see some things getting done. I'm hoping we can get motivated to work on the ceiling this winter! It would be so nice to be able to finish the floors once everything else is done.  Thomas sanding the office door. One side is painted, the other is stained.  Almost ready for stain!  One coat of stain. Two coats of stain and two coats of poly... still wet.  Stained entryway to the kitchen. Stained archway to the living room.  Stained and polyed door!! Couldn't be happier with the way that the fiberglass door matches.  Stained office entryway.  The other side... looking into the dining room. Please excuse the disaster...