The floor has been stained a lovely shade of Pecan (which way do you pronounce pecan?). Here it is half way stained but Brian has now completed it (that'll be in the next update!). This is sort of like a before and after shot all in one.
We're going to have some awesome classes in this room!!
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We've finished laying down the new pine floors. Next step is staining & sealing, we've picked a Pecan stain. Brian did such a great job with these floors-- they're gorgeous!
Also-- the wild turkeys have returned for the season! It's been so warm out this week that the snow has almost completely melted. The turkeys are back everyday and we're throwing out seed for them. We love to hear them gobble.
The drywall and glass door is up! This is the new enclosure around the stairway that leads from the workshop to the master bedroom. Today we'll be patching, sanding, & painting it!
Turns out there was 6 layers of wallpaper on these walls!!! Can you believe that? One was uglier than the next. A real early one was very very pretty but there was no saving it. Peeling took the better of 2 days and we're still not done in this one room! The walls underneath are plaster with horsehair. We are going to put a skim coat of plaster tinted with fabulous natural pigments. More on that when we start that project!
This is some of the beautiful premium pine boards that we got for flooring in the workshop room. Brian found them on an awesome deal at the lumber yard-- they were $2 a piece which came out to less than 75 cents a square foot. Definitely the least expensive and the nicest option that we found (and we looked really really hard!) It should be going down this week!!!
Joy sewed us this awesome Sweetland Retreat banner for our propaganda use. She is an embroidering genius! We had it at the FAB Fair with us (which was pretty fab and we'll post more pictures soon!) We wanted it to evoke our craftiness, fun attitude, and colorfulness and we think it does all that. It was amazing to finally be able to spread out in a big workshop room and make this together and we can't wait to have others come and join in our happiness!
Our BFF Adam Junior came to visit and to work this past weekend. He was our first artist at the retreat and put in a lot of hard work building a wall in the workshop room. The wall is enclosing the stairs (with a beautiful antique glass door to be installed) and creates privacy for the master bedroom above the workshop.
Adam taught Brian how to frame out a wall and drew a detailed diagram so that Brian could build a half wall at the top of the stairs on his own.
Adam-- We love you!! Check out his sculpture on his website AdamJunior.com
