Archive for 2010

Thrifty!

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

My haul from this weekend. The thrifting was truly superb after such a long dry spell.

What did I get? Well…

-More vintage ceramics

-Dansk bisected wood bowl

-Chunk o’ burl wood

-White glass bottles with teak stoppers

-John Keal for Brown Saltman hexagon coffee table

-Black Styson Art Prod. salad bowl

-Mid century ceramic girl head planter

Caravelle Sizzling Servers enamel set

-1970’s Porsgrund Norwegian cruise line peanut jar

Patio Progress

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Last weekend we finally started working on the cement paver grid that surrounds the fire pit. We ended up going with the cheapo 12 x12″ gray cement pavers from our local building supply. Already 100 pavers down and it looks like we are going to need about 60 more to finish.

Yeah, some rows are still way wonky. We didn’t get as far along as I thought due to a rain delay (I was super hoping to be done this weekend). But you can kind of see how it’s beginning to shape up. Once all the pavers are straight and square and the gravel is filled in and we paint the house and finish the “bar” or “planter” area to the left and fix the fence and fix the fire pit and redo the roof and put in the hot rolled steel edging and make a vertical garden and finish the planter bed and landscape the other half the yard and replace the ugly front fence…then we will be done! Oh and the lights. Gotta figure out some exterior lights.

Totally doable? Right? RIGHT?!

Oh, I just got so depressed.

We did grow an accidental lawn with all the recent rain. Oops. As soon as it gets hot it will all die off, but for now it’s a nice bit of green against the dreary exterior.

Oh yeah, that’s a nice paint job on the chimney…guess who doesn’t have a ladder!

One more thing, that patched together fence? Put it out of your mind homies, it’s on notice. Looking to be replaced with something a little less ghetto, a little more solid and a little more cement based. Eventually.

House Tour

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Oops – looks like we got ourselves a house tour on Apartment Therapy.

There is a little funkiness with the sideshow, so click to view thumbnails and all the images should appear.