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Y'all have been faithfully watching our miscellaneous posts on Facebook and Instagram - cheering us along with each new step of the transformation of our farmhouse... This crazy renovation journey we've been on is running into our 21st month soon... we're 5 months over our initial plan to move but we're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.... We should start the roaring '20s in our new old home.
The last two weeks have been about drywall going in throughout the house and the installation of the kitchen cabinets, counters and garden window. This upcoming week the interior gets painted, the dishwasher and refrigerator will be delivered and the bathrooms will be tiled. Which means it's almost time for toilets... and for our claw-foot tub to be set up in the master bathroom... and almost as exciting for me as I look around this cramped very full home around me - very soon I'll be renting a sprinter van to deliver the doors and fireplace mantles that have been sitting in my living/storage room.
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This also means the lighting can finally be installed... old chandeliers that have been hanging in our home for the past decade are coming down, being replaced with modern light fixtures for the upcoming staging of this place for sale. Boxes of light fixtures I've squirreled away are being pulled out of storage and being glammed up for the farm.
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The farmhouse had a purple and green chandelier in the hall that the owner left behind... it was missing some crystals but that's my THANG... I'm forever hording interesting crystals... I have two plastic bins full of them... it may be an addiction. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Anyway, we needed a second small chandelier... I knew we'd never find one like the one left behind, so I searched for one that could compliment it. I found it in California junking last year with my mom and bestie in San Carlos.
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Two weeks ago I started the transformations. Bill had taken the California chandelier and covered the brass. I spent a night pulling crystals out that would make it more artsy. I figured this light had a clear crystal base, thus needed colored crystals, where the one that we got with the house had the purple/green base and needed clear crystals... So for the first chandelier I pulled blue and purple (to keep one color in common) crystals and completely changed up how things hung on the fixture. It's slimmer looking and by the time I was done I was thinking how well this will compliment the stained glass transom windows we are hanging down the hallway.
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After - Original |
Bill is very good at putting things in safe places... and finally found the original light in a drawer in our barn this week. I brought it home tonight and brought it back to life while watching college football (Geaux Tigers and DAWWWWGGGSSS!)... I decided to keep the majority of it original except for the bobeches. I pulled the original purple crystals down the center bottom of those bobeches for the continuity from top to bottom. I think (along with the cleaning of the whole fixture) that the clear crystals really brighten up what was kind of a dark chandelier... I'm pretty happy with the finished look.
I'm really excited to see how all of these visions pull together. We're changing some of the vision as we go - such as last week when we had some issues with our tile... I rectified it with some new tiles but I'll do a blog on that next week after these tiles are installed. I'm actually thrilled to finally have stuff I can do to pitch in. Bill has been working til he's about to drop daily. He never ceases to amaze me with what he can do. This house will be beautiful when done because Bill see's the visions I talk about and then, as always, he knocks the implementation of my dreams out of the park.
I'll end this with a quote... I almost bought this today... but when I went back it was gone. It captures what this downsize means to me perfectly...
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