The Bois Bungalow

Happy winter! It has been a horrible winter here this year and we have been buried in ice and snow... We are 8 cancelled school days in and the snow is still here. I'm hoping this melts soon!  I have not posted in a while, but there has not been much to blog about. We have done a lot of gardening and some woodwork around the house. I will update with pictures and hope to have some big updates in the next couple months. For now, here are the pictures from the past year.  The house in the spring. I am longing for sunny days like this again.  We purchased a lot of compost this year to create additional garden beds on the property. This was just one load.  We installed a new basketball hoop for our wisteria. Thomas has to break the concrete off of the old one.  We built a new door for the shed. Here is the before picture from years ago: ... and after! It is so satisfying seeing this project complete.  We fostered 5 kit...

We finished up the woodwork in the parlor and now just have two windows left before we are done with woodwork! Finishing sanding the woodwork after stripping and scraping it. Staining Another finished window! We had to replace several boards around the dining room windows because of damage and radiator holes. We also had to fill in the gaps from where the colonnades and bookshelves were removed in the 30's. The previous owners had filled the gaps with plywood, so we matched the original oak with new oak. This November, we finally refinished our main living area floors! It was a lot of square footage, but was pretty simple compared to our previous experiences (kitchen, bedrooms, and bathroom). These floors are original to the house and are fir and oak. We knew we wanted to go with the same dark walnut color that we have done all of the other floors and woodwork in. Here are the floors before sanding: First we sanded the floors down ...

Wow, it has been almost 5 months since I last posted. I need to do an update! A lot has gone on in the past 5 months. At the end of February, we painted the back hallway and the stairs that lead into the house. It was white with green stairs before. We also added a schoolhouse pendant light fixture back there that matches the other lights we have added in the house. It looks like we didn't take pictures after the crown molding was added. It's a difficult/small area to try and get good pictures. We finished up the dining room windows in March. As of now, we only have 3 windows left. Once we finish those, we can do the floors!  Towards the end of March, we added a bunch of garden beds in the front yard. Our goal is to eliminate as much grass as possible!  Picked up some plants to start filling the flower beds... We got several tons of compost and soil to fill the garden beds.  Picked up two Conquest maples for the bou...