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okay, here goes.... a few pictures of what we've been doing over here the past year and a half. our house was built in the 1940s as a duplex - one unit upstairs and one unit down. for the past 5 years, we've lived in the second floor of our house and worked out of the first floor. now that we have built studios to work in, we've renovated the first floor and finally moved into our entire casa. the room below was once my studio, then marvel's birthing room. we now call it the parlor. we knocked down most of the wall shown at the top left for a more open feel. it's now sort of a go-between room that connects the living room (top right) and the stairwell - a good place for koruna and mars to snack, draw, make a mess.
we gutted the old kitchen downstairs and turned the upstairs kitchen into a laundry room. below are pics of the old downstairs kitchen and work in progress. (we of course considered keeping the shiplap, but some of it was in pretty bad condition.)
we removed some windows to make room for french doors to the side yard.
below is a picture of work in progress
and what it looks like now.
our house is filled with estate sale and garage sale finds, family pieces, hand-me-downs, gifts, and auction purchases. we're trying to get rid of everything we don't love. we're trying to simplify.
we need to simplify because we're determined to spread our wings while we send down our roots. we'll be leaving the country for a while this fall. we haven't decided all of the details yet, but we do know that we'll be renting out our casa a bit while we're gone.
the pictures that the airbnb photographer took of our house are far better than mine. check them out by clicking here. exciting stuff....
bits and pieces of our new studios
construction in progress.
austin herndon heald studio in progress.
bits and pieces of the austin herndon heald studio these days.
ian ingram studio in process. the first pic on the left is his old teensy studio.
bits and pieces of ian's studio these days
we
LOVE
our
studios.
moon dreams
i took these pictures of napping mars and louie and just had to share. it won't be too long before mars no longer needs his baby bed and, though you can't tell in these pictures, we've added a big ol' metal bunk bed for him. for now the bunk bed is just a place for mars and runa to play and injure themselves, but eventually marvel and louie will drift off to dreams there.
this is one of many changes we've made in our home, in our lives, this past year. there were times i thought the construction and renovation were going to do me in, but the process is drawing to a close. i'll (hopefully soon) begin posting pictures of that process, which i couldn't find the time to do along the way.
this year will bring life changes as well. we're already brewing some up....
cookie makin'
koruna and i made no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies for a party this holiday season.just like mama used to make...
