Building Walls

I'm going to try to limit my blabbing
about the wall my husband built.
Let's just say, I love it and he did
an amazing job taking it from
tired and outdated to terrific.

This is how it started out.
It just had a shelf partition that divided the kitchen
from the living room, with both ends open
as walkways between the rooms.
Seriously ugly.

My husband tore that down,
and framed up this new wall that
includes a window that was salvaged from
the demolished Kahoka, MO courthouse.
The smaller glass doors were salvaged
from a cabinet he tore out of the kitchen
and he added lights inside so I can use it
as a display cabinet visible from both
the living room and the kitchen.

After getting that far, we decided
to extend the wall on one side so
there would be more available wall
space in the kitchen, which was much-needed.
The big old screen door also came from
the same courthouse.  I'll probably add more to

that section of the wall later, but don't

want to clutter it up too much.  He angled the

wall to give us more room in the kitchen.

Inside the display cabinet, I put together a vignette of 

old wood boxws, old bottles, and antique hymn book pages.

The kitchen side of the cabinet holds many of 

my old dishes and ironstone pieces.

The lights cast pretty glow on everything inside.

The lights provide just the right amount 

of light during the night to act as night lights,

so I don't bump into anything during my

nightly trek to the restroom.

After my husband finishes the hard work,

I always get the fun part of dressing up spaces.

Remember all the pieces I salvaged from an

antique sewing table and created chalkboards out of?

Well, here's what's left of the table, with

its freshly painted top.

The living room receives a little more natural

light with the courthouse window there and

really opens up the look of both rooms.

I picked up this old chippy window for $2 a few days ago,

and added a little antique crochet lace to the top

to soften up the look of it.

 Tucked in the corner of the window, are a few old
clock faces I order from an Etsy seller in Latvia.

And old tarnished spoon acts as a plant
label for the pot of Rosemary.

I ordered even more faces, so I've
tucked them here, there and everywhere.

I'm so grateful my husband has the ability

to transform spaces I dislike into 

ones that I absolutely love.

The kitchen is every bit as ugly as the living room was,

so he's busy now gutting everything in that room.

Well, I guess I didn't limit my blabbing after all.
Sorry - I tried!

Blessings,

Angie

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