Thursday, January 29, 2015

Hubby is truly amazing!

Mind you this was day one with three and half walls completed of the 8'X 10' galvanized steel shed, pretty much all by himself, except my little wee bit of help and of course Gus's.

 Day two are the PICS #'s 2 thru 4, with the roof on, and with it pushed back against the fence in its position and floor ready to be installed...The doors too will be all tomorrow, of course!


The pine high boy that was bought for Number One Son's room when he was a teen and we had just moved to Florida; it has endured. Some cat scratches on top add to its distressed look, but this piece will be sanded and re-stained its golden oak color, which was used on all my solid wooden pieces bought from an unpainted furniture store way back then in Ormond Beach Florida. On oak it looks different than pine and on other woods as well... Minwax we have been using forever as DIY'ers since the early 1970's! Now they have wood putty that is stainable but it is also in a golden oak which will be used on the deeper ridges of animal's teething, even a corner was bit off the ice box end table but the wood had been puttied with only a paintable one not a stainable one, now it will be sanded down hardily or chipped completely off to start again, since I have decided to maintain the golden oak stain on them all and will not be painting them. That stainable putty will be used.
 One of two oak cabinet's, our younger son was given the other piece and we have no idea if he still has it, and yes I have not put my dishes in it yet, the items inside were mostly on the natural wicker etagere. As you see the fish hand painted hanger piece is resting on the bookcase and has yet to be installed in Hubby's bathroom, its door is just on the other side of the bookcase. Hubby is extremely busy, too busy for this yet.

Interestingly that after the hurricane when replacing the furniture that we had acquired over the years we chose to purchase expensive distressed pieces. Oh I suppose it was due to my reasoning of what would become of them in the end, ha! And in many ways that is true. Horrible true story: one of the many reasons I stopped smoking on July 11, 2006, besides my TIA and my parents and brother dying from strokes, actually my brother passed away after I had quit, but with my MS I drop things and that included my cigarette, yep on the dinette table! Well the burn mark is there to remind me, but also blends in with it being distressed; who knew...I suppose I did.
All my new stuff was ordered in the fall of 2004 and arrived by December of 2004 when our home was done and ready for us to move back in.
Any-who as we all know that matchy, matchy is not the right way to decorate anyway and so now we have more interesting items, or that should be once again! Rooms should have memories as well as functionality! And now they do.

On that note of make things work and doing it with love, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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