2Modern - Kids & Baby 16x9 Hanging Pendant Lamp

2Modern - Kids & Baby 16x9 Hanging Pendant Lamp

The fixture for twins room!

Twins room progress

Projects left for this project:
Paint wainscot and window trim
Paint walls and ceiling/ finish painting crown
Install light fixture
build closet system for closetinstall shutter doors on closet opening
hang shades install motorsinstall new outlets and switches

Windows for Christmas!

Our windows came in yesterday. Noah was up until 2 am installing them in the twins room. Just wanted to post some pictures. It has seriously changed the look of our house like crazy. These are Marvin wood interior aluminum clad windows so they exude the charm of 1925 but without the noise from the street, gusts of cold air seeping through the gaps and condensation. These are double paned Low E II with argon insulating glass with simulated divide lites with wood on the inside, aluminum on the outside.

Progress

Progress is happening at our house. See that our porch light is in and the door bell is installed. Some of you may be asking yourselves why our mailbox looks like a horse. Well our from porch is falling apart and our mail-lady looks like she is too. She was constantly complaining that our porch was a hazard. So for now we have this ridiculous looking horsey mailbox.



































Noah is working on the kids room. He is doing level 5 flat walls and he is so frustrated. He finally threw out the trowel and knife and used our paint sprayer to apply the mud... worked like a dream! Next step is to install the 4-1/2' wainscot with plate rail.

Very exciting news: we get our new windows in a couple weeks!

Demolition!

Not THIS kind of demolition... but yeah, we like this too.

We were getting antsy on a Saturday evening... frustrated really about our lack of progress on the house. (((I say WE, but it's really I)))... I am affectionatley known around the house as "hungry hungry hippos" because I thrive in a state of activity and chaos!... and I have been known to eat a marble or two...

Anyway, we decided that we would tear out our twins room. We moved their furniture into the breakfast nook off the kitchen and started preparing for the mayhem. We covered the floors with painters dropcloths and tore the old green paneling and taped the peices together to form a hard barrier to protect the floors. We removed the sash from the main window and parked our trusty blue Datsun (yes, so trashy) in our front yard right outside the window.

Noah and I before the fun begins.

We tore out all of the plaster and lathe. Walls and ceiling.

After it's all said and done.

We are excited to have some insulation finally! We sprayed 1" thick foam on the exterior walls. Next we will put in paperless batts of insulation over that.

Noah also re-framed the closet door. Anyone who has ever lived in a old house knows how frustrating the closet space can be. We widened the opening 38-1/2" from 30" and extended the door height to 96" from 80". We plan to install two window shutters as the doors.

Ipe?

We are starting to gather information on the materials we want to use on the front porch. Currently the columns are made entirely out of wood as is the flooring that is rotting out fromunder our feet. Our plan is to remove the 2 concrete steps leading up to the porch there are 4 steps total (2 wood, 2 concrete). We will make all of the steps out of brick. The bottom portion of the columns will be brick as well. The top portion of the column will be 4 4x4s. The deck portion of the portch will be Ipe. Ipe is an extremely dense hardwood that is great outdoors, and it's really beautiful.

This is an example of Ipe.

New hardware & fixtures... and some painted windows!

My favorite place to shop (and dream) for and about fixtures & hardware is Van Dykes. I pour over the catalog specifying my door hardware, sash locks, faucets and drawer pulls. And they have beautiful farmhouse sinks.



So I am so happy to tell you I finally got my doorbell!
It is actually quite large 3-3/4" x 3-3/4"... it's a beauty






Yesterday I finished painting the porch ceiling.



All we need to do is install and paint the trim and we are done. I've picked out a fixture from Rejuvenation that has the vintage lines, but isn't traditionally "craftsmen". I don't want our house to border cliche. I want it to be a modern interpretation of the era, but holding true to the values and concepts that made the movement what it is. This is the fixture and shade we chose.