A Weekend at Sunnybrook

How nice it was to get away for the weekend and do some long overdue work at Sunnybrook. The pump got primed and the water lines got replaced and run to the kitchen and the upstairs bath.  We are completely ready to insulate the kitchen walls and then the beadboard goes up on the walls and ceiling, the floor gets refinished, the cabinets get placed, and the appliances get moved in. Voilà!!! Kitchen!!!

I painted the downstairs hallway, which is a huge 6' x 17'.  It went from dark and red to light and white. I'm sorry that I don't have a picture yet of the new white hallway, but here's a picture of the old red hallway.

I love red, truly it's my favorite color, but I really didn't think this color was approprite for this house. Just FYI, to the left there's a doorway off the hall that leads into a sitting room and to the right there's two doors that lead to a bedroom....Yep, two doors that lead to the same bedroom. It's a big room.  As you can see, the doorway at the end of the hall leads to a bathroom that's in dire need of a remodel. 

This hallway will get refinished, probably when the kitchen is refinished....Maybe? Not sure. At any rate, at some point this hallway floor will get refinished and I'll use an area rug and put furniture in there. It has a deacon's bench now, but I may move that to another room and replace it with a little sitting area...something like this (just the sitting area, not the wall treatment)....



I have chairs that look just like these.


On the opposite side of the hall, I want to put a piece of furniture for storage.  Old houses have a tremendous amount of charm, but hardly any storage space!! I'm thinking something like this....

or this...... 

                                                          with this hung above it..



I LOVE this wall cabinet. I have from the first time I saw one like it in Gate City, VA. I might have it some day...you never know.