PART II: Sept 08, 2015

Sunroom nearly done..ceiling fan needs to be put up.  ....The house is looking great.  It's been a very long haul getting everything done, but it doesn't look at all like the house it was.  THAT...is a good thing.  It's been a while since I've talked about the house, so just to reiterate what's what---it hadn't had but one (very ugly) update to it since it was built in 1972.  Location is AWESOME, the view.. also AWESOME.  But the interior... was just 1972 hideous. lol  Ugh.  But, that was then and this is now.  Going to be okay.

NOTE:  The image here doesn't do the room justice, really.  But you can get the gist. ;)  BTW, I LOVE this sunroom!

After considering one idea for the sunroom, I decided on a blue floor and ceiling.. same color the cabinets are now painted.  LOVE this color!  It's going to look great when the patio furniture and rug, etc. are in the room.  Haven't decided on if I want to put indoor/outdoor sheer curtains in there or not.  I can decide that later on anyway.

Inside...the red brick fireplace is being covered with travertine subway tiles, with larger travertine tiles on the raised hearth.  Looks MUCH better.  Basically, the entire house has been re-done, with the exception of one small bedroom.  But that one bedroom really doesn't need anything.  Well, the ugly, outdated ceiling light has been replaced with a ceiling fan...not as decorative as the ones in the master bedroom, living and sunroom.  But still nice.

I really love the new fireplace tile and can't wait until it's finished...until the entire house is finished! :D  Everything looks SO different... and looks like it should be sitting on the beach somewhere.  I think nostalgia too me down that road.  Not sure.  But it all started with a small piece of beach glass. ;p  Go figure.

Anyway, the kitchen cabinets are done in the same blue as in the sunroom, and the same travertine tiles are now the backsplash (not subway).  It's coming together quite nicely.  And once everything is done... I can order my exercise bike.  Now THAT'S another talk show.  But basically.. I've always wanted a stationary bike, one of the really nice ones, and now... I can get one since I will have an extra room to put it in.

Well, I'm feeling rough so will sign off of this blog so I can post in the other "alter ego" blogs. Whew.  So hard to keep up these days.

Later, taters!

Well, tomorrow is it....

The house closing is tomorrow and...I'm super excited to be moving out of the city.  It's busy here, and I guess I've grown far to used to the serenity of the neighborhood I lived in while in Mobile, AL. I miss that neighborhood so much, having lived there about 10 years.  Hopefully this little private drive will be just as peaceful.  No through traffic, one way in/out... and not that many houses.  And, the house sits on a bluff.  No, I'm not bluffing.

In the summertime it's covered in kudzu... something that I believe is taking over the south (lol), and in the Winter... it withers and opens up the view even more.  Basically, the landscaped backyard comes to a halt at one point, and needless to say.. it's not a place you want to wander out drunk, especially in the dark! lol  I wouldn't advise wandering out there in the dark sober either. haha  That's one SERIOUS drop, folks! ;p

The deck will be refinished over the next few weeks, as the paint and a few other things get done.  But I honestly can't wait to get hold of that sunroom!!!!  That will be a topic for another day.

This is one of the back corners of the 'back yard' as far as one can take a photo without falling off into that abyss. lol (again, just a photo from the listing). going to be my oasis, my place where all the decompression happens.

And I love the way the deck wraps around the sunroom so that there's a little deck on one side, and a larger deck on the other side (showing in the photo to the left.

I'm loving this already. :)

Last but not least... the bedroom set for the master bedroom was ordered this past weekend. :D  Headboard/footboard, dresser w/mirror, 2 nightstands, and 2 lamps you see in the photo.  Already have the contractor trying to match the paint on the walls in the photo, and I've been looking for the 'natural' look curtains....  yeah, I'm somewhat trying to recreate this room.  Almost.  Almost. :)

And my bedroom set, also pretty but in dark wood.. will go in one of the other two bedrooms. Most likely the one that will be my workspace/office/art/photography room.  We have to have places for family to sleep when they come to visit, so now we will have beds in all 3 rooms.  Yay!

What's not showing here is the view from the breakfast nook (from the back of the house), and the master bedroom.. also at the back of the house.  Unbeatable.  As they say... location, location, location!  There were other houses.. often placed in crowded neighborhoods or on barren, stripped lots.  Oh they were GORGEOUS inside with new everything, etc...  but when you walk outside... barren suburbia.

My thinking on things like this is simple---there are things you can change, and things you can't change.  You can make your house look like a palace, but if you build it in the middle of a landfill... it doesn't much matter if it's a palace.

No matter what house was seen, walked through, oooohed and awed at... it always came back to this one house.  It was difficult to forget the view, the privacy, the way the front yard was outlined in trees all the way to the driveway so that it is literally secluded.

Well, it's difficult to put into words, and most houses aren't at their best in the Winter with all the trees stripped of leaves, the shrubs appearing like nothing more but twigs and woody bones, the grass a pallid yellow.  I guess you just have to see its potential through something other than just your eyes.  And of course, photos from another season certainly helps. ;)