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Post by nana on Nov 15, 2016 17:26:07 GMT -5
My husband just finished this today, and just in time because Thanksgiving is coming and I was getting awfully tired of the pieced together and peeling wallpaper that was there from when that spot was the refrigerator's. I do love that man!
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Post by vaporvac on Nov 15, 2016 18:22:27 GMT -5
THAT is STUNNING! It must look amazing with the floor. I do think the paper look cute the little I see of it. My mom had the exact same pot.
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Post by nana on Nov 15, 2016 19:22:25 GMT -5
Thanks! He had put the tiles and frame up over the weekend, then we had to wait for the glue and all to dry, so he said he'd grout it by the end of the week. Oblivious as I am, I had gotten some soup together for supper, and wanted to put a pinch of salt in, and went to get my saltbox, which usually sits on top of Marilyn's back shelf along with a few other items but had been moved to the counter for the duration. Then I saw it was back up on the shelf and I finally noticed that it was all done. I got home at around two in the afternoon, so it only took, what, 4 hours to for it to dawn on me. I would not make a good detective.
I took everything back off the shelf for the picture, but the pot had to stay, since the soup was simmering. It's a nice one, very heavy and beautiful enamel. It says ASTA on the bottom. Dorset church sale find.
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Post by mach12 on Nov 16, 2016 1:41:09 GMT -5
I guess I wouldn't make much of a detective. I looked right past the pot and though "what a nice, even flame". Didn't even pay any attention to the pot. What a beauty!
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Post by Chuckie on Nov 16, 2016 9:31:15 GMT -5
My husband just finished this today, and just in time because Thanksgiving is coming and I was getting awfully tired of the pieced together and peeling wallpaper that was there from when that spot was the refrigerator's. I do love that man! W-O-W, now THAT is bright & shiny!! Bound to cheer up the GLOOMIEST cook or ho-hum meals! Well done, 'husband'!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by mach12 on Nov 16, 2016 10:55:57 GMT -5
I've never done any wall tiling and only flooring a couple of times but since I'm going to be doing some in our kitchen I've been studying up on it. There's a lot of background stuff important to getting it right and your husband really got it right! If my tile work turns out half that good then I'll be tickled. Nice job!
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Post by Chuckie on Nov 16, 2016 11:08:32 GMT -5
I've never done any wall tiling and only flooring a couple of times but since I'm going to be doing some in our kitchen I've been studying up on it. There's a lot of background stuff important to getting it right and your husband really got it right! If my tile work turns out half that good then I'll be tickled. Nice job! My Da did A LOT of tiling when he retired, and taught my younger sister "how to". One BIG secret is to have a tile water saw--you can make thee most minute cuts w/o waste!! Here is one of what I speak on Amazon: www.amazon.com/SKIL-3540-02-7-Inch-Wet-Tile/dp/B003HIWR08/ref=lp_552972_1_1/152-7758586-0682132?s=power-hand-tools&ie=UTF8&qid=1479312311&sr=1-1 Maybe you've a bud that'd loan you one, or perhaps there is a tool rental place in your town... My Da's wasn't that fancy, but knowing him, it cost the same amount--or LESS!! He was pretty frugal--in fact, if memory serves me, he had said younger sister pay HALF for it!! LOL, she had a MAJOR kitchen & bath project she was gonna start (long since finished), and it was well worth it, so she said! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by pooka on Nov 16, 2016 12:40:35 GMT -5
nana, on the other site I asked you what the center tile depicts. I couldn't tell on your avatar pic. Here, I see it's a pictorial scene, but I still can't quite see it clearly enough. I then noticed when saving the pic, it's the reverse of the same pattern that's above your sink, only with a different center tile.. You posted a pic of your new cork floor that also showed it with the rest of the room. I knew that pattern looked familiar. It's like you cut a diamond pattern Navajo blanket in two, or maybe a modern art interpretation of an oriental rug. That would make a beautiful quilt pattern. That pot is cool, but a little too fancy for everyday, at least in my eyes. I'm more comfortable with more humble cookware. When I looked it up, there are several patterns of this German porcelain ware. Some had a base for an alcohol burner, so it could be used as a chafing dish. There are also matching sauce pans too. It would be tough to unclutter my stove for such a glamor shot. I'm such a pack rat for cool & interesting things. Some, I actually use, while others..., well they're cool & interesting. When I want to cook, I have to clear a space. In my basement kitchen, there is no counter space. I have to make due with the kitchen table like people did in the olden days. Back then, before most homes had built in cabinets, all work was done either at your Hoosier cabinet or at work table or kitchen table. I'm use to making due with limited space, but I tend to clutter up even that. This is my stove area right now, warts & all. About half or more of this stuff should go somewhere else. That big red Belgian porcelain pot is the fanciest pot or pan I own. It's a plain step sister to yours, but it's a great one for soup & stews. Perhaps I should take a cue from your husband's handy work, & paint individual bricks in the chimney in a pleasing pattern to spruce up the area. It hasn't been painted since grandma painted around her old 20s stove, untold years ago. This is one of the benefits, & downfalls of living alone. No one messes with my stuff, but it's real easy to overcrowd myself.
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Post by nana on Nov 16, 2016 18:15:54 GMT -5
Thank you for all the love! Pooka, you should go for it! My husband said think of the brick chimney, and also what looks to be a stove pipe on the right, as a blank canvas. (I'm also really impressed with your memory!) These are tiles we had leftover from when we redid our bathroom about 20 years ago. I wanted a rainbow theme. Then he made the sink backsplash, and we still had leftover, and they sat in the basement for all this time. Good thing tile doesn't spoil! The center tile is of hummingbirds, one of my favorite birds, and also the background blue is a pretty close match to Marilyn's blue. My husband gave it to me for Christmas with the eventual promise of a backsplash for Marilyn. The center tile by the sink is a cow, because my brother figured everyone in the country likes cows. I'm also including a picture of the bathroom, still holding up after all these years, I think!
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Post by vaporvac on Nov 16, 2016 19:03:36 GMT -5
LOVE the bathroom. colourful, but still crisp and fresh looking. You did a great job with the shower curtain!
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Post by pooka on Nov 17, 2016 0:42:44 GMT -5
That's a beautifully crafted tile. A lot of work went into that one tile with that many colors. I count eight. That bathroom is just bold enough to define the space, but not overpower you. That's a most uncommon range of colors. Mostly rich, dark shades, with just a couple bright one for contrast. A grownup's rainbow. In zooming in on the sink tile, I can see that it's a cow. That's a common kitchen theme. Even I've got a hot pad that has a cow's head with a red bandana around her neck.
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Post by nana on Nov 17, 2016 14:24:06 GMT -5
The green tile is actually a bit lighter in real life, the pictures somehow make it look almost black. Our friend Beaver who is also a contractor just about lost his marbles doing the bathroom. I kept telling him just remember ROYGBIV. When he was done he said he did make one mistake. I never went looking for it, but one day years later I was shampooing my hair and I spotted it on the wall opposite the shower head. He left out a green. I told him he was like the Persian carpet weavers who always put one mistake in on purpose because only God is perfect. Wanna see my sink?
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Post by nana on Nov 17, 2016 14:49:26 GMT -5
Aw Jeez--give it to me straight. Have all my pictures been coming out upside down again?
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Post by chipperhiker on Nov 17, 2016 15:20:56 GMT -5
'fraid so, nana, but only in the small size versions. When I click on them, the large version is right side up. Pretty, pretty colors in your bathroom and kitchen, by the way - happy and cheerful. Love 'em.
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Post by nana on Nov 17, 2016 21:20:42 GMT -5
Thanks. It's a reaction to my mom's decorating scheme that would have made a Shaker feel like things were looking a little plain.
I have to remember the on off button goes on the right when taking a picture, if I want it to be right side up.
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Post by pooka on Nov 18, 2016 13:54:22 GMT -5
I'm envious that you have tile in your bathroom. Mine has a pattern of grooves scratched in the wet plaster to simulate four inch tiles topped off with a wooden chair rail at shoulder height. It's not so bad with most of the room, but around the tub Ive got two shower curtains to protect the wall with the window & the wall with the faucet & spouts. The floor is an imitation terrazzo flooring done with resin. If you look at it at the right angle, you can see the impression of a tennis shoe where someone stepped on it before it set up. It's a dream of mine to redo it when my ship comes in.
My grandma had similar taste to your mom. She loved to paint rooms, but always chose pastel colors so pale you could barely tell there was any color at all. In my basement, every pipe, duct, I-beam & post have been painted silver to spruce them up. The concrete wall are painted with white waterproofing paint, probably multiple coats. White was the default color to paint much of anything else. My aunt across the street was about the same. Her kitchen was black & white, with emphasis on white. You should have heard her squeal in shock when she saw we painted my living room yellow. She exclaimed "it's as yellow as yellow can be"! She grew to admire the bolder colors we painted my rooms, but not in her house.
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Post by nana on Nov 18, 2016 21:58:20 GMT -5
Before we did the bathroom over it had some kind of masonite panels around the tub with what appeared to be mildewy tile patterned contact paper on it. The rest of it was strictly gas station ugly. Oh, and the tub had been leaking and if we hadn't gutted and completely redone it when we did, someone was bound to have gotten into the shower and ended up in the crawlspace when the floor gave way. So it was a real necessity.
My mom sounds like your aunt, Pooka. She could dither for weeks over which of 20 shades of white to pick, and she called the upstairs bedrooms the blue room(bluish white) and the pink room(pinkish white). But then there's the wide board wainscoting in the dining room, which was original to her house, built in 1780. She went all the way to Sturbridge Village in Mass. to get "authentic" colonial yellow paint for it, which is the exact color you'd get if your dog ate a quart of mustard and then sicked it back up. I used to tell her that they used that color because they had nothing better. If the colonists could have gone to Benjamin Moore they would have in a heartbeat.
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