Our Little Cottage in the Big Woods

January 29, 2018

JPC #17: Art.

A piece of art in our Dining Room. This

lovely painting is of a vintage kitchen.

An AGA cooker, in the same color as

our sweet little AGA from England.

We love collecting art and this piece is

one of our favorite ones to have in our home.

JPC #16: Fireplace Warmth.

Our little electric fireplace in our theatre room

gives us an amazing amount of warmth at night.

JPC #15: Going Green.

It was a big gamble to choose green and ivory for

our kitchen, laundry room and bathroom cabinets.

We truly don't tend to follow any trends and color

is important to us as a family and as artists.

Our builder and his team were skeptical, until

they all visited after we moved in and then .....

.... they all said "now it makes sense" which created

some great laughs. No laughing on our end, just a

reassurance that "going green" was an authentic

choice for us to make. Our home, our colors.

JPC #14: Sunday Selfie.

A no make up day on a Sunday.

It is what it is ....

I chose this picture of our Dining Room, where we enjoy scrumptious meals on my grandparents vintage furniture. They had this set made for them not long after their wedding in 1938. We feel so honored to have it in our house. When my grandmother died, our family had to decide who would take what items and what would be given away. No one actually wanted her furniture, except for my dh and I. We were so happy when the other family members (my cousins and my mom and my aunty) all said yes to our offer to take the furniture. History and good memories in one very special room.

JPC #12: Starts with "M".

I could have used one of our fireplace mantels for today's post "starts with M" ~ we do have 3 in the house. I could have used memory and talked about my mom's journey with Dementia. I could have used the word Mom and talked about how much I cherish my life as a Mom to our kids. But in the end, I chose the word "maybe" in relation to this photo I took last week when I was at our very tiny local county museum. This photo is of a local house out in the country that we almost bought. Why the word "maybe"? Because we had many maybe queries at the time. Maybe it has asbestos. Maybe it has ghosts. Maybe it's not priced right. Maybe it will have many hidden issues. Maybe it will collapse into the well. Maybe we won't be able to reno it the way we want. Maybe the neighbors won't like us. Maybe it will be too loud, so very close to town. We decided to not pursue it after first making an offer than realizing we had way too many concerns. When we decided the next day to pull our offer, after letting the couple know that we were excited to own such a neat property but we had some things to check out and they basically insisted on an offer so they could stop showing it but we said if we couldn't get our answers we would pull it and they were perfectly fine with that, but then when we did, they were horrible. Even talked about suing us for lost potential ~ we made our offer at 10 p.m. the night before and pulled it by 8 the next morning ~ not sure how many showings they lost in that time. In the end, the family that eventually did buy it flipped it after doing the renos but they never lived in it because the amount of asbestos that was in the structure. Many things they just covered up (we went to the open house) and lost money in the end. So it was the right decision. But sometimes we still talk about "maybe" we could have done a great job on it! Would have been fun to live in a house with so much history. Love our brand new, from the ground up, home. And the amazing history we are now creating here with our family.