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So... here you go!

This is a small project we'd been working on off and on this week. JOhn finally plowed through it. Don't they look great? (Well, when we're finished, won't they?) Who would paint over leaded glass doors??


And here is the bathroom with the wrong color yellow towels. The curtain is the same blue as rug on the tub (not allowed to actually walk on it!!)


Here's the kitchen-- a work in progress. We aren't painting it. I like yellow. But I am putting up white sailcloth curtains.


And the two sunrooms-- one of which is "suzy's room" (a dog with her own room, geeze.)



Suzy's room has a murel that Caroline did years ago of exotic animals. Couldn't bear to paint over it. Someone else can.

And the living room


And Max putting in an A/C unit in the dining room. That's right!! It's red and it's staying red. The sofa is going back in the living room. Soon. Hopefully!!


What do you think?

I know-- I posted too many pics. I can split it if you Mods want me to.

looking good :) i really like your sunroom! red is supposed to make you want to eat more...

...if you want to diet maybe try green, opposite of red lol

It does look nice. I really like your colors.

I love how every room has its own color scheme. Looks very nice.

Gosh, I like that house. The sunrooms are great. I like the red room too. What is hanging from the chandelier? Was the glass painted over?

Cool, lots of windows and white, makes for a very neato place..

Well done.

b

Thanks. You all make me feel better.

The green windows in the living & dining room are actually green. The house is 100+ years old, so before A/C & there are a number of elements that were intended to keep the house cool in summer & warm in winter. We just recently put in 2 window units & we've been fine all these years.

Hanging from the chandeliers are Christmas decorations. The dining room used to be the "New Orleans" room. We were always so scattered for Christmas-- never here in Cincinnati with our Cincinnati friends-- that we made it a point of decorating and dressing up (long dresses, old prom dresses for the girls, tuxes for the guys) for New Years. So over the years we added more and more "decorations" to the dining room. Most are gone now, but no matter who commits to cleaning the dining room, no one has ever been able to cut down those first shiny globes. I guess I will have to be the one.

Oh-- yes!! the glass in the pantry was painted over & over. It was a real project getting it off!

Back to the kitchen. John is cleaning the fan. Yuck.

Looks great Marica! I too love your color choices! I wish I was more brave in my home with color. It is pretty neutral.

We live inside a box of crayons!

Crayons never go out of style..

b :ding:

Thanks, Dodge! We especially like the "primary" colors!!

Where is "rural Western PA"? As a kid, I lived in DuBois & in Greenville, Pa.

great sunrooms, and I love the red in the living room!

Very nice pictures/house Marica. And you are moving???--you are going to show us the new house right????

Marcia it is nice to see the pictures. Let me explain (because you asked about it) the general rule is three photos per post. So, if you have more than that, you do three, hit submit and start a new post for the next batch. This makes it easier for people on slower internet connections.

It would make me sick to see leaded glass painted over. Good for you for taking it off!


Merme

Yes we are moving. And I'll post pics (three at a time!!) WHEN we find something. Going down to Mississippi on Monday to start looking.

Yes, Merme, we should have taken it off years ago. It makes me sick all-around to see people "modernizing" old houses in general. I'm o.k. with indoor plumbing (!) but carpeting hardwood floors and painting over leaded glass is... disrespectful, I think!!

Amen to that!... I especially love seeing the old wide pine floors in 100 yr old homes that have aged beautifully, even though pine is a softer wood and it gets marked up it adds such character one could never achieve deliberately.
My BIL works in Mobile,, I don't know what area you're going to in MS,, I believe you DID post it but I just can't remember,, but anyway get ready for the heat there,, you think Ohio is hot, Mississippi will show you Hot and humidity terribly bad, . But it's also beautiful there,,,. I hope you find a home quickly and sell your current one just as quick so you can get all settled in with ease!

I know it's hot! (And I don't think Ohio is hot!!) We used to live in Eastern NC where 95* and 95% humidity was the norm for summer. So hot my glasses would steam up!! So I'm looking forward to it! But I'm especially looking forward to seeing signs of spring before May. January through March is just so grey here in Cincinnati. And it seldom snows like a real snow... mostly just spitting snow & ice that's dirt black after a day. So no pretty winter.

Oh-- we'll be moving close to Starkville, home of Mississippi State University & SEC football!! Yeah!

Marcia

If you lived in DuBois.......I am straight down 50 miles away. North.

That is a desolate area there.. We ride up there on Motorcycle and could not belive how rough and unpopulated it is there.

b

I remember going to a "ghost" town. I think an abandoned mining town I think south of DuBois. ?? But I was too little to have any sense of direction. I do take pride, even to this day, in having been to Punxsutawney, and being able to spell it correctly. Really, some of my fondest childhood memories are from when we lived in DuBois. And all of them involved being out in the woods, going berry picking, spotting deer, building dams in the creek... .

Geeze. Funny how stuff sticks with you. That was 40 years ago.

Well that is great..

Sounds like my childhood on the farm.
Even fishing in our creek.. Catching craps .By hand . tadpoles.In a jar.

I still pick wild blackberrys and raspberrys here.

That was on my dads farm..The weeny farm we have is without streams.
Yes it is good for raising kids ..Why did you leave? work?

This was back in the early to mid 60s. (I date myself.) My dad worked for JCPenney & we moved around a bit. We lived in DuBois for 3 years. While there, Dad & Mom became friends of a lady at work, Peggy Kriner, & her extended family. Bill & Phil Kriner had grown up on the family farm, but although they had moved "to town" they kept "The Farm." So every Sunday after church, we'd gather at the farm. The men would do chores like white-washing fences and building bonfires, and the ladies would do "women's work"!!

Anyway, as I said, I have very fond memories-- nothing quite compares to getting "lost" in the woods or walking down a dirt road with a pail in your hand pretending to pick berries, does it? And my parents stayed friends with the Kriners (who were a generation older) until Peggy & Bill and the rest died.

I haven't thought about this in years, Dodge!

Glad i refreshed your memories for a day.. Sounds like a nice setup you had there..

Our family farm ended up being sold cause brother married s town lover.
No he wishes he had it back..

It didnt bother me cause we bought our own memories.

b

Glad you were human like us.. Only we milked cows by hand for a living in those days. Before and after school I had to milk 4 cows.. Each of us did.. DOnt miss that at all.

b

it's nice you guys have those memories. My dad was in the Army and we moved at least once a year. I went to 17 different schools. I have only a few memories. I wanted my children to grow up with people they could remember.