Wing backs reconstruction

We are now more or less finished with the renovations and have started to upgrade our Guest rooms. Some time ago we featured these chairs and their make over. 

We came across very drab old wing back chairs.

They now make their own statement 

I love their shape and size!!!

Charming!

Look at that sexy legs. This oldie needs a remake. 

This oldie shouted please please take me home! 

It was now also time to find the material that will do the trick for these lovely oldies. It was necessary to give them a new lease on their durability but also change them into two very special and comfortable chairs. They had a special duty . . . to be comfortable and to be able to sit and look out the little dormer windows and . . . read . . . and look . . . . sip on an old brandy cognac.

This piece of material could tell a story and we know that great stories happen to those who can tell them!!!  

All the old drab has been removed and the new beginning is taking shape.

Measure and measure

Mary you are a star!
With Mary's help these are now sexy ladies.
They will charm you and keep you comfortable.

Thanks for visiting 

Till next time 

Sandra

Spring ..... time to regenerate our attic

SPRING . . .  ATTIC . . .  REGENERATE . . . .  NEW SEASON . . . .  INSPIRATION

SPRING . . . . .  and the smell of figs goes hand in hand.
A sure sign that spring is here when the fig trees start sending out their beautiful buds.


Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do ... 
but how much love we put in that action. 
- - Mother Teresa - - 

An piece of art that holds dear connections with our attic!!

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SPRING . . . .  and our dream to regenerate our attic 

What will it be . . . . . . 

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."

This bathroom would fit in wonderful . . . 

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
 - - Norman Vincent Peale - - 

An option for the chimney . . . .


The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.  
- - Sydney Harris - - 

                                            

Perhaps a little sitting area . . . . .  
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- - Henry Drummond - - 





Ideas for a bedroom . . .  will it be number one ? ....

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
 - - Zig Ziglar - - 

Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
 - - Eleanor Roosevelt - -


Any ideas . . . . .  ? 

While we are waiting and working we need to eat 

 Frances Hansen’s lovely cookbook

1/2 scrapbook, 1/2 recipe file:

Renovating De Oude Huize from 2000

The front door had six layers of paint that needs to be removed. 

My husband, Hennie, used every known way to strip the paint.  

Eventually it was heated with a blow torch and then scraped of.  

This restoring process took months.  Eventually all the doors, window frames and all wood was now exposed.  Beautiful Oregon pine and Yellow wood now graces our house.   

You can now follow the renovation process and the improvements that happened at De Oude Huize

Handpainted wallpaper found behind an old ceiling 

Old window that was found during renovations.

The bath before re-enamaling