... and boy, are my arms tired.
We're waiting on some furniture. Namely, a couch and a round dining room table, which have both been ordered but have to be constructed.(Not unlike when you order yarn from us; you tell us what you want, we make it for you. But you do have to wait while we make it for you, because this is not McDonald's.) We've unpacked a good portion of the boxes, but have yet to hang anything on the walls, so the pictures you see will probably not stay where they are.
The living room now:
The table and mirror on the left will not stay there. I bought the mirror, which is an antique and weighs about 900 pounds, at an estate sale. It will eventually hang in the entry way, after I can get someone to engineer a hanging solution that will not rip the plaster out of the walls.
You can't see that the mirror has a small pineapple at the top, so I think it's befitting that a symbol of hospitality hang in the entryway. The round table is walnut, which I also found at an estate sale. The square table is an old game table with a swiveling top that I bought for $2 at a yard sale. I will eventually paint it and put it somewhere else in the house. And the chair is my favoritest piece of furniture. It is wildly comfortable, and once I get a lamp and a footstool, I'm sure this will become my reading chair.
Speaking of reading, I'm pleased with how the library is coming along. I still need to get my daybed in here, but the books have arrived:
See? Viridian green walls. I actually chose one of the colors Benjamin Moore deems "historic", and then painted the ceiling (which is curved, I love it) a pale (historic) green). For now, the mantle holds some of my pictures and collection of vintage schtuff.
Here was the color of Lake Superior yesterday. Keep a rag by the keyboard to dry your eyes and wipe up your drool. After moving back here, I kept marveling at the sky -- it seemed so big, and the cloud formations were remarkably beautiful. I realized that after ten years of living in big cities on the West and East Coasts, I'd gotten used to seeing air pollution. There's very little air pollution here, and the sky is amazing.
If you ever receive an email from me early in the morning or after dinner time, chances are very good it was sent from the library in my house near Lake Superior.
Yay!
P.S. The people at Macintosh have gone above and beyond to help me with my aforementioned computer problems. I'm confident we can get things fixed. Yay!
P.S.S. I am getting close to choosing some paint colors based on your previous suggestions. Yay!