Let There Be LIGHT!

We finally have lights in the addition, both garage and master bedroom.

Or, maybe I should say working lights.

I can not even describe how excited I was when those lights went on.

I even yelled when they turned on.

I think I drove our electrician crazy because I kept turning the lights on and off.

I told him that we were going to go to bed with them on.

The only thing I have left to do is install the dimmer switches.

Five chandeliers does give off a lot of light.

I think my favorite lights might be the ones over the fireplace.

When I get home from work I turn them on for the night.

They just sparkle!

 

The garage is all lit up too.

We have great task lighting for those projects that need to get done.

I ordered 5 of these from Wayfair.

Love the vintage look and not the cost.

These outside lights are my favorite.

We found them at Home Depot.

I wish they had matching hanging lights for the deck.

New sensor lights, now our guests won't trip over the bushes.

We reused the side lights from before the addition.

Mr. M. and I are over the moon happy with how the addition of the garage and master bedroom are turning out.

This weekend we finish up putting the trim in the mudroom.

Then let the painting begin.

Thanks for stopping by.

Progress

We have been working hard on our vacation.

Very hard!

We finished almost all the drywall in the master bedroom.

 This is the master bedroom looking from the master bathroom.

This is the view that Mr. M. said it is starting too really look like a room and he can start to visualize it.

I looked at him like he had two heads.

Seriously, now it is looking like something.

It started to look like something to me a LONG time ago!

Then I started to tell him how I see it coming together and where all the furniture will go, and the colors of the walls, and what kind of lighting.

I lost him.

Then I asked him, "did you happen to realize that this room is larger than our living room?"

He looked at me amazed, that had not really sunk in.

Anyway.

The wall near the table is where the bed will be placed.

The far wall with the hole is where the fireplace will be.

The outlets are for the tv and cable.

A sconce on each side.

I will put his lazy boy by the window, a small chair and couch for watching tv and reading.

The wall to the left is where I will put the pine armoire that currently houses our tv.

Oh I have plans for this room.

This is the left side of the room.

The two open doorways are our his and her closets.

I would eventually like to build a window seat in front of the windows.

There will also be a round table where we can put the contents of our pockets, keys and what not.

My closet!

All sanded and ready for a second coat of joint compound. 

Don't worry, I sanded Mr. M.'s too, I will finish them tomorrow.

The laundry room.

Waiting to be sanded and a second coat of joint compound.

I have already started showing Mr. M. the tile I would like to put in this room.

Honed Travertine floor and wall tile from HomeDepot.

I love the color, it will go with the dark wood we plan on putting in our bedroom.

I am also thinking of using a smaller square travertine tile on the fireplace surround.  Mr. M. started to glaze over when I showed him the different colors of tile.  I do love that he lets me make almost all of the decorating decisions, BUT, I would love his input at times.

The in-floor radiant heating was finished today.

Now we will be able to work on the room even in cold weather.

The new mantel waiting to be put in place.

I can't wait to decorate it.

Especially for Christmas.

There is a certain kind of tree in the garage I found at Sally during their Christmas in July sale, waiting, just waiting for that special time.

I can't wait!!!

This is one of the views looking down from our new bedroom window.

I can see all of the gardens.

We installed the french doors at the back of the garage.

Originally it was the plan to have a regular garage door.

BUT, when we built the deck, we realized that there was no way we would use it to move cars or the tractor in and out of the garage.

SO, I put in a brick patio and filled in the rest of the space with flowers.

These will be the party doors.

Yes, there is already a door there.

We are funny like that.

Someday I will have to tell you about the light switches in the mud room.

Now all we have to do is install the door knobs and put up some trim.

The doors let in a lot of natural light into the garage.

They look great and will come in handy for when we have large parties.

With no air conditioning and the threat of rain during my son's birthday party this past summer, we used the garage.

It worked perfect.

Each day we list what we would like to work on and what we can do for fun.

Wednesday we went to Six Flags amusement park, lucky for us, they had some rides down so we scored 5 free tickets to go back before the end of the season.

Thursday we went to the drive in theater to see Planes and Smurfs 2.

We are hoping to still fit in miniature golf, bowling, roller skating, bike rides and possibly visiting friends on Rushford Lake for some swimming, jet skiing and relaxing. 

 We play as hard as we work.

Only one and 1/2 weeks and the kids go back to school.

They are ready.

I am ready.

The Man Cave

The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

We have one layer of drywall on the walls of the garage (man cave).
It is a huge 4 car garage and we are doing the work ourselves.
The hardest part is the ceiling because they are almost 12 high.
We still have 44 more sheets to hang.

But.

We are half way done.

I have started thinking of what colors I am going to paint the garage.

Of course I am!

Don't worry though, I plan on asking Mr. M. what color he would like first.

Although he does threaten to use every color from the EXTRA selection I have in the basement. Ha ha.

Mr. M. is a huge FORD man.

I would love to paint him a sign on one of the walls.


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In fact I love all of these signs.

Some artwork would look nice too.

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I am thinking of a nice light grey with the Ford blue in a couple of vertical stripes.

colors found at Home Depot

He even said I can paint the floor if I do it with some nonslip paint.

I want to include some of Mr. M.'s fireman plaques and extra gear, along with old baseball jerseys too.

I want him to know how much we appreciate and love him for all that he does for us.

This is where he is king.

As long as I get to use his tools too.

He has also been on the look out for an old Ford truck for us to work on together.

For the future, for when the house is done.

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We both have the ability to see great potential in old beat up things.

And we know that paint can really make a difference.

The sooner we can get the garage done, then we can move up to the master bedroom.

Busy, busy, busy.

And how about you?
How is your summer going?

First Roses of the Season

This is going to be the year of the roses here at Arbor House Lane.

This is the path from the driveway into the firepit area.

These bushes are just full of lovely pink fragrant roses.

I wish I had written the name down in a book, because they are so hardy and they have few thorns.

High winds and lots of rain have caused them to loose lots of petals.

I love how they look all over the garden bed.

I have a pair of iron gate ends on each side of the path.

Peonies, roses and foxglove.

A lovely combination.

Wild white roses almost completely cover the arbor at the side of the house.

Almost like a secrete garden.  

Soon this arbor will be covered in huge pink roses.

Wild white roses on the front arbor. 

During this week the arbor will be covered in tiny white roses.

Arbor view from the front door.

This is a mass of little pink fairy roses.

Next week it should be full of small pink roses.

These are my favorite rose bushes.

They require little maintenance and they can grow to be huge if you let them.

I can't wait to cut some and bring them in the house.

The arbor as it looks from the road.

This climbing rose in the corner to the garage door.

We will be building a small over the door arbor to let the roses continue to grow up.

Like the one below.

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These would be simple to make in a weekend.

Oh, honey, whatchadoin?