Cowboy Curtains

I sewed curtains for the guest room, maybe should have measured BOTH windows first. The others are plenty long enough but this one is a titch short. I will leave them, I think they're going to work OK.

New bed skirt and sheets on the bed. Blankets & comforter in the laundry.

This is the curtain detail.

New lamp; I added the spurs.

There needs to be a bedside table, this milking stool is too short. They certainly can't read with the light below the level of the bed.

That was fast!

Less than 18 hours after I placed our home on AirBnB we have the room booked. When its all said & done, after everyone else takes their cut, I stand to get about $30. So today I went and bought new sheets, pillows, fabric for curtains, shower curtains, alarm clock, lamp, etc. Spent $185.28. The good news is that I received a coupon to save 80% off custom framing & I have a painting to frame.

The shower curtain I purchased looks like this... NOT western, rustic, shabby chic or anything, just totally beach. The walls in the upstairs bathroom are light greenish and there is already a water color painting of a beach scene so this works well. I'll take the turquoise towels up for our guest. 

I also purchased shampoos, soaps, deodorant, tampons, all sorts of necessary items in individual packaging in case our guest needs anything.

Air B & B

We have placed our spare room on Air B & B

Asking $41 per night

Horses $10 extra per horse

I need to do some more decorating but this is the beginning

And I hope we get a guest or two

As you can see, there are no curtains, the lamp sucks, barely any art work. The closet is on the right and I have stuff inside it but if we were to get a guest I'd have to remove all of it & shove it in the other spare room.

This might be fun.

Third Bedroom Up & Running

There are no curtains yet on either window but I did wash them, gave them a horse and spurs. 

The table top headboard works great, if I do say so myself. Can you see Buckin' Brown back in the corner? He is to help prevent banged heads on the slanted ceiling. I'm going to find some awesome curtains for this room.

Yes, this is the book I'm currently reading. I love westerns, they make me laugh.

Much better than  cheap romances.

Yes, that's a 3 legged milking stool, yes, I wear those readers.

overall, the room just looks OK. If I had a guest come over they would say, nice bed but not THIS IS THE COOLEST ROOM I've EVER STAYED IT! 

Third Bedroom Updates

The upstairs 3rd bedroom is FINISHED. 

The floor was completed last night, then the closet began. 

Today the closet was FINISHED. 

He made the door a little too big, I think 2 of the boards need to be removed. As it is, the door only opens half way. But its beautiful.

New Walls

This is the view looking in our front door, from the left the closed door is a bathroom, then the office in back, the white bricks is the huge fireplace and the dark living room.

We had our contractor come over and build a wall with a pocket door.

There were several reasons:

1. Keeping the cats and dogs out of ONE area of the house

2. Having a place to lock them IN

3. We can close it for a quiet place to work

4. With the fire going it will be warm

5. It adds 1 more room to the house rooms count on the appraisal

I haven't primed or painted the wall yet, I will do that in the off white which matches most of the rest of the house. The door and trim (trim coming later today) will be same color in high gloss. Then I will put in the rest of the switch plates and redecorate.

The house is FULL of stuff from this area and the upstairs spare room, which we are redoing also.

A lot of stuff (JUNK) was crammed into this room and it had an ugly orange berber carpet. The walls were stark white with lots of marks on them so out went all the stuff and the carpet too. I've already disposed of quite a bit of the junk and will be making a donations run to St. Vincents.

We've been here 3 years; before we were here the roof leaked down this slant and onto the floor at the left, below the window. I'll be painting that and with Kilz and have already painted the rest of the room in off white.

Then we're installing new hardwood flooring and finally a new closet will be built here.

Here is a photo I doctored up to look similar to the future closet wall. Bead board with a barn style sliding door. The wall won't be drywalled, just framed with the wood over it. There will be a hanger bar to the right side of the door and shelves to the right.

Once this closet wall is finished the value of the house will be thousands of $$$$ higher since it creates a BEDROOM and not just another room. 

Big Front Door Finished

The front of the barn is almost entirely finished. Since these photos were taken two days ago, The trim on the roof has been attached, the 2nd overhead door rail has been put up and a handle is on the barn door.

This rail is quiet

We put 3 sets of rollers on the door to support the heavy door

The rail is round with HD plastic wheels, they don't make nearly as much noise as metal wheels

He glued, then bolted the supports and wheels on

Inside of just the door

Inside door and the wall above it