Saturday, November 7, 2009

This Old House Picture Edition

Since I first started blogging about the house, many requests have been made to get some pictures of the house posted, this blog is the response to those requests and I hope to start regularly including pictures with my future blog entries. So, let the blogs begin…

Over the last few weeks many things have been changing quite nicely around here. The barn has been cleaned out, windows have been scraped and glazed, and cabinets are in the process of being painted. Also, the trees have been changing many different colors which just add to the beauty of the fall season and the upcoming Holidays. So, here are a few pictures to show some of the projects around the house.

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This is the very front of the house facing Santa Fe.


This is the back of the house looking through

the loft door in the barn.

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This is the exterior of the barn and as you can see, it does slightly lean to the left and the South wall sags a bit but, the highlight of it is that the roof is actually straight up and down from when it was redone several years ago.

This is the bird sculpture in the front yard that took two cases of Rustoleum primer to paint over, this bird will eventually be painted blue and yellow which are Bethany colors. I think this is very coincidental as the Bethany symbol is the dove, and the biggest rival to Bethany is Kansas Wesleyan which is only six blocks south of us.

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This is the Immanuel Lutheran sign that was painted by Pastor Kent, these are a pretty cool way to advertise in a small way the church in the community.

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Now we get to the pictures of the kitchen where we are starting the process of painting over the old stuff that was there, which I might add was very tastefully done if it was going to be the paint scheme in a blind man’s condo. So, here goes…

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This is the new color for now of the cabinets in the kitchen, a very tasteful Kilz Number 2 White. The original color of the cabinets and most everything in the kitchen was a very nice sandy beige color which by nice I mean very ugly, boring, and bland. The Kilz white also helps to cover the water stains and mold stains that are in the cabinets because of leaky gaskets in the sinks that flooded every time they were used.

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This is a photo of the cabinet under the sink in its full beige and water stained glory.






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This is a picture showing the current bland violetish bluish color of the walls outlined by more of the sandy beige color. This picture also shows some of our ideas for coloring the kitchen I think we are thinking of an overall creamy yellow with green accents. Kind of like a John Deere themed country kitchen.



This is more of the kitchen beige goodness also showing off the vintage 70’s hotpoint oven in contrast to the two year old smooth cooktop range.


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This is the good ol’ wall again and it even shows off the beautiful purple curtains and yes, those were free and included with the house.

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More wall and purple curtains with a hint of ceiling fan in the top part of the picture.



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This is the East wall of the kitchen and yes it does have a little stained glass motif on it which I might add is a high quality stained glass hand painted with puff paint. I think this was done while the owners or occupiers of the premises were puffing on something else, perhaps the Ganj.







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This is the back entryway/laundry room for the house. This space also serves as the main entrance to the house as the driveway and parking place to the house is mainly in back. This room as well is the ugly beige/sandy color that I so deplore as the main coloring to a room like this but that will too change with time.



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This is the North wall of the kitchen and it has a nice pantry space but unfortunately, there are no shelves in the big closet. That too will change.

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This is the continuation of the North wall of the kitchen and the hallway entrance to the bedrooms, bathrooms, and the basement.



I hope you have enjoyed being able to see some of the pictures of the house and I hope to post more in the future. All of the changes going on around here have made me decide to post the occasional before and after picture project blog highlighting shots of the projects at the start and at the end. Anyway, Have a great week and a good weekend.

Blessings,

John

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