Leaving the bedroom, we re-enter the living room with ... omigosh, more views! They are leaving me the piano, which means I can part with the monstrous black upright I have diligently trucked all over the country since 3rd grade. Jack (b'friend) says he's moved it once & THAT WAS TOO MUCH.
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I die a little more with each photo. Drowning in my own drool... what a glamorous way to go.
Can I come live with you? ;p
katie, come see it in person!!! For once you won't be put to work like most guests because there seems nothing to do at this place.
Woodburning fireplace:
Pony, I WILL have to find a roommate to make ends meet. Could it be you? I can offer you the library plus a bedroom & 1.5 baths.
As we continue past the foyer on our right, we pass the dining area & move to the kitchen. Pony's bedroom is on the right of this.
Now that we're in the kitchen, we can look back & see the antique Belgian sideboard that is now mine, and Pony's bedroom & half-bath are around that corner as well.
*heart attack*
OMG I WISH.
My family might be a little annoyed with me if I ran away from home, but oh, that hoooouuuuse... *dribble*
Pony's bedroom, which looks on the south entry garden:
Are you sure, Pony? Here is the half-bath next to yer bedroom.
Kitchen is basic blue & white, but I love that there are very few upper cabinets. And here is the 5th skylight (4th one is over the Jacuzzi).
Some open shelves in the corner.
*cries*
Maybe I could get my husband to beat me so I'd have a reason to leave him... why oh why does he have to be all wonderful? *gnashing teeth*
Now we are looking past through the rest of the house to the garage door. I love that you can see all the way through both axes.
Maybe there's room for him, Pony? This is the 2nd full bath that would be yours. We have just stepped down from the kitchen into the hallway.
And on the left YAY YAY YAY no more basement laundry for ME!
Not only that, but ... laundry with a VIEW.
This is the first photo she sent that made me say "sold sold sold sold sold" to my computer. ...
OK, last one! This is one of 2 identical bedrooms that will become my sewing & painting studio. This one has the same view as Pony's room.
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Gawd! Even the laundry area is like something out of a dreambook!
Trust me, you wouldn't want my hubby there- he'd have your gorgeous view blocked with motorcycle parts and blacksmithing stuff inside a week. LOL!
WOW!!!!! What a find! I think Pony will have to fight for that room. LOL Congrats!!! I'd be getting antsy too for Aug. to come.
Oh, Pony, hubby is MY kind of guy. I do not hurt for construction & welding equipment.
Jan, there is SO MUCH to do in between now & then, mainly putting together cash. Thankfully, Jack owns this house so I don't have to worry about selling it, but ... at least 2 of the Airstreams must go. They are providing much of the down payment. On the one hand, Jack said just leave everything behind & he'll throw it in a Dumpster, but on the other, there is a smidgen of financial pressure here. After several years of mainly living off Jack (I got out of newspapers while the getting was good but then couldn't figure out what to do next) ... I now have a hefty mortgage to meet.
One of the big things -- I'll have to get my longarm quilting business going for reals rather than just messing around. (If anyone wants to check out my progess selling all belongings on ebay, I'm summerkid62 there. Along with the gatrillion kimono, I'm listing a lot of keepsakes and it's funny, but there are people who are "following" my progress & email me with pep talks!)
Yeah, wait till he coats your flowerbeds with fiberglass dust and then doesn't get why you're grumbling... LOL!
In all seriousness, congratulations and super deluxe good luck to you! I hope all goes smoothly in the transition to your new home. :)
Oh, and I bookmarked you on eBay- your kimonos are lovely! I'll keep checking back to see what else you add. :) (If you have a green silk one, please don't tell me about it. Really.) ;p
Oh, I DO have a green silk one ... maybe I'll list it tomorrow. Today I wasted too much time uploading photos.
Then again, I'll still have several hundred when you come to visit Rose Lodge ...
Gah! You weren't supposed to tell me! hehe. Okay, okay... I'll watch for it... ;)
Wow What a beautiful tour Thank you for sharing and congratulations on all the changes you're aking It sounds like the previous owners found just the right person to appreciate everything they've put together I would be getting antsy too Give the boyfriend a year -- he'll follow you heh heh As for the toatoes: stay away fro big ones Put toaotes on your deck in pots in the sun They usually grow well here but ripening the is the hard part So plan on lots of cherry toatoes and you'll do fine
Looks like you woke up in the middle of your best dream ever. Fantastic. I wish you smooth sailing in your transition to Oregon.
Kathy, your m lisp cracks me up!
Summer, seeing the house itself makes it even more fabulous! What a wonderful foundation...you can simply maintain or customize and be in heaven either way!
Kathy is right about the tomatoes. My cherries do very well in pots in the sunny spots of the yard. There are also varieties like Oregon Spring, Early Girl and Sieletz that ripen earlier than others, so you have a better chance of a decent crop with them. With the big tomatoes, we have had years that we have harvested tons of tomatoes, and then years that we cut the plants with nothing but green fruit in hopes that maybe one or two would ripen. It's a crapshoot at best, but there are always markets close that bring them over from the other side of the state.
Summerkid, beautiful! And so nice and private-one of my someday dreams.
As to tomatoes, yes to what RJ said. We talk a fair amount every year on how to get them to grow, lol. Endless quest, I think. I'd like to add that Oregon State has had a breeding program to develop shorter season, good producing tomatoes. Oregon Spring is one of them. There's also Legend and Willamette. I've had pretty good luck with both of them, considering. But do plan on at least one cherry tomato-much better chances of success. I usually grow all of them in big ugly black plastic pots so the soil warms up nicely. The upside is that they will produce until October (cough, or finally ripen then, depending on the summer), weather permitting. There are definitely different approaches to grow veg out here. You might want to check out this book "Growing Vegetables West of The Cascades" by Steve Solomon http://tinyurl.com/mr7zuq
Oh, and sorry, no cardinals here.... :(
Your blue flowers are Aconitum - not a typical one, though. If you ever get a close-up, please post.
Very nice place & very private/cozy/wonderfully marvelous. I can hardly wait for August to come so you can be there & occupy your new space.
Re: tomatoes. As previously stated, do not try to grow the larger beefsteak types. Our growing season is not hot enough to build up heat units. HOWEVER - DO NOT BE DETERRED!
I am insanely nuts about having tomatoes every summer, so I have been growing mine in ground & under plastic cover. The cover will typically come off in July. This keeps a bit more warmth around them & they stay dry. The Romas & many of the cherry/grape types do very well. sometimes the skin will be thicker due to cooler weather, but the taste is not affected. there are certain varieties that are grown here, and if one has a GH, any type can be grown. I sow seed in the end of March (although this year i did it on 2/9 - stupid move, as they reached 3' + in height before I could get them planted out), and plant them in ground mid May or so.
We do best here when we watch the weather instead of going by "established planting dates". Just remember that much is determined by the marine layer & how your proerty is sited for accumulation of heat units.
Yay for you, SK !!!
My SIL has had great success growing tomatoes in 1.5 foot high clay chimney inserts. Beware, though, the gardening community is on to this and you now have to pay $$$ to get what used to be garbage. Anyway, in the fall, she sets them up under plastic teepees to keep them warm long enough to get the last ones to ripen.
Sue - I had forgotten about OSUs tomato breeding. That's good information. I'll have to look for those.
My SIL found (and bought one for me) a little tomato plant that already has ripe tomatoes on it. I've officially had my first warm, fresh tomato of the season. Yummmmm.
Katye, I will be right there with you pioneering the growing of tomatoes. Beefsteaks don't concern me much since I think homegrown romas are quite tasty, and my main goal is sheer production to make bluekat76's famous Roasty Sauce for the freezer. I've already ordered the book that Susy mentioned because my other main push in the summer garden is garlic -- surely that grows in Oregon?
I've been pondering uses for the 70x15' RV corral with the garden shed at the end -- goats or chickens would be nice. Perhaps tomatoes in black plastic barrels with plate glass on the south side to trap heat? I'm not above putting a space heater out there if necessary!
Here I am leaving nearly every beautiful planter behind yet taking my ugly black plastic thingies -- people will wonder!
One change that needs to be made is to replace this plain fridge with my stainless bottom-mount one. Then I want to paint the wall with metallic primer & cover it with chalkboard paint so that the whole wall becomes a big bulletin board. Given that the cabinets are white and the tile counter a cobalt blue, does anyone have any suggestion as to the color of this opposite wall (you can make chalkboard paint in any color).
Primary blue is really not my thing so I am drawing a blank here. For light there is the 2 skylights and the bank of north-facing windows. Would a celadon clash with the cobalt?
switching hats here: they will not clash as long as -
1. they are from the same "base". By this I mean that all colours either have blue or yellow as a base. Compare: lemon yellow (blue) with golden yellow (yellow);
2. they are not the same intensity of saturation.
Blue & green are generally quite compatible, and naturally soothing to the eye.
I would find a swatch or something of "Celadon" that fits your description, and lay it on the counter. View under natural AND artificial lighting at various times of the day. After seeing it for a few days, you will instinctively know whether it pulls you in or pushes you away.
Of course all colours will be perceived differently by the viewer. All that really matters is if you like it. I recommend buying a large piece of wallboard, prime & paint it to see what a large area of the colour you choose actually looks like in the setting you have.
Fun stuff, SK - I am hoping you have a tomato corral WITH heater!!!
Thank you! As an artist I am really good with color & fearless, but it's instinctual rather than actual knowledge.
Here is a pic of my old sunroom. I loooooooooved this paint job. I'm not really into complementary schemes but perhaps this would work with the blue? I overwashed the gold & orange tones with diluted bluish paint.
Sk, congratulations on your new home. I am sure you will love it and love the PNW as well. I also moved into a home with views of nothing but outdoors and spent at least the first three months just looking outside and feeling like I was camping in luxury.
I am sure you will get lots of advice from the DG members.
I am also a birdwatcher and love some of the "new" ones I have gotten accostomed to here. Do miss some of the 'bugeaters' that are not around, but do not miss all of the bugs that attract them. Fear not about the veggies, there are plenty of sources here that bring stuff over from the east sides of our states that provide local markets with lots of really good, and usually fairly cheap, stuff.
Thanks, Girl. I'm sure it will be nothing but bliss & clover.
Looking at that photo of the sunroom, I can't believe how thin Osita was. My neighbors are elderly & stubborn & will not listen to me & they feed her too many porkchops & hot dogs. We are going for a run tomorrow!!!
Ooh, I love the paint job on your old sun room! I don't think that would clash with cobalt...
Thanks, Pony. We worked hard on it (my friend & I). I had something in my mind's eye that didn't yet exist in magazine clippings or paint chips -- not terracotta, not yellow, not salmon, not coral. Where it worked perfectly it was sort of a rich peach.
But can you believe that once I sold that house, the new owners promptly painted the room white? They also repainted the exterior & all the other rooms (Jack said, "Well, you do know that the neighbors called it the 'clown house'?")
This was my art studio -- it has TWO balconies & I paid for it with my quilting money. See the stripes on the ceiling? I made my handyman paint them twice before it worked (whites are tricky, aren'ty they?) ... poor Darrell. I had him running around for years & at the end of it all he proposed to me despite everything. Men are funny.
(The stained glass is an antique panel that was my first Christmas present from Jack. It will hang from one of the skylights in the new house. Doesn't he have great taste?)
OK, I know I'm beating you into submission with photos but this is probably the last time I'll think of my previous house & miss it so badly. It has been a hardship living in a crappy house because I'm very susceptible to beauty or the lack thereof, but now I'm returning to something of similar quality ....
This is looking the opposite way in the studio, and that is one of my quilts hanging way up high ...
This was my living room -- the color was chosen especially to set off the Haitian paintings. It was an uncharacteristically cool color for me, but it worked wonderfully with the oak floors & sand-colored couches ...
The glamorous color of the dining room was MUCH more to my liking!
