We've been trying to finish the last bits of several projects. We get sidetracked now and again and start another project without finishing up the one we had going. (ever do that?) So, we've put down shoe moulding and touched up paint and moved the furniture into the new stair landing, the last bit of this project was putting up the banisters. We built every component of the railings from "scraps" of wood and metal rods, we painted it and then assembled it. This was a time consuming and tedious job trying to line up each and every little rod and hold them in place and get the railing fastened, but the end result is awesome!
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| Mom and Dad's heavenly coffee spot! |
This little landing area is where my parents dream of having their coffee in the mornings and watching birds in the spring and summer, the leaves changing in the fall and the snowfall in the winter. It's right outside their bedroom and we're putting a coffee maker here, so they don't even have to come down to the kitchen to get their morning brew!
As soon as we finished and set the furniture in, my dad said, "That's just like I saw it in my mind." He has "designed" the house in his mind, there have been no drawings or schematics to go by, just what he "sees" in his mind. And, except for the help of a few family members, he's done all of the work himself! I happen to think he's extremely talented to not only dream these things up, but to execute them so beautifully.
With almost every room in the house at some stage of completion, and not one fully complete, except the bathrooms, we've still taken the time and luxury of enjoying our first cup of coffee in this wonderful little nook that just a few months ago was just a dream in the mind of my dad! And for years to come it will be our little corner of "heaven".
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