Miracles Do Happen!

Hello from Kersey,
The picture is of my hubby cutting out around a light switch. He has spent the day hanging wallpaper in our parlor. He started early this a.m. and finished for the day just a little bit ago. The miracle is that I have not heard him swear but one time and that was going around a very uneven corner. He is out running now. I call this room a parlor for lack of a better name. The main house was built in 1900 and this room is part of the main house. The stairway to the upstairs is in this room. The rest of the house was remodeled around the original. About the only thing we do with this room is walk through it to get to a bedroom and bathroom on that end of the house. We have always referred to this room as the room with no name. If you said that in public you then had to explain. So I just started calling it the parlor.

When we bought our house everything was blue. Blue is fine if you like blue. We don't. The outside was blue, the carpet in the kitchen is blue. And who puts carpet in a kitchen anyway? The wallpaper in the parlor was blue. So when the branch speared the roof last summer and we had to replace the ceiling I decided to redo the wallpaper also.

I have a few Arts and Crafts period pieces of furniture. So that is what I am going to put in the parlor. I will post a photo when it is done. I wanted paper that looked kind of old fashioned. So I went with the magnolias. I am going to paint the dark ugly paneling in the dining room and living room a neutral greenish grayish color. It goes with the paper and the fabric that I have for the dining room windows. All in all it is a work in progress. I have had the wall paper for about three months, so I am thrilled that it is almost all up and done. I would like to get it all finished before Thanksgiving so I can have people over. Since I am doing all of this I am throwing as much away as possible and giving away as much as I can too.

So for today I will say so long. Hope your weekend was a good one and your saddle stayed dry.