The kids are working very hard, yes they are paying for the big jobs, like flooring, painting and tile-work, but are doing a lot of the work themselves.
How cool is this wall! Mandy is great at finding the perfect touches. So we went to help with the kids and the house.
Joel did pool duty.
I did hard physical labor. There was a lot of wall paper left over from that beautiful wall. Unfortunately the previous owner had put down contact paper in the kitchen. Once you remove that (and that was really the hard part of the job, you need to put new paper down, because the stickiness left can really only be removed by sanding…. There are a lot of drawers shelves and cabinets, it didn’t look right to only replace what had paper – so yeah I got very busy. Also notice the floor, it is some new kind of vinyl that really looks like wood. Since dogs and kids will be welcome, this is a great choice.
Mandy has found some amazing things while thrifting, here they are hanging a mirror.
The rug and furniture are new, well, not the brass table, she found that and three smaller ones while thrifting. As she says: Old people move to the desert with their wonderful real mid-century furniture
, then they die and the consignment stores are full of treasure.
This mirror isn’t mid-century, but is the correct size, the green and gold colors work very well.
I know, you can only see part of other mirror here, this is real mid-century and it is marvelous. She also found this incredible green bamboo vase. She picked up some dried floral arrangements, at first she just plopped them in. Meh. I took them apart and combined two of them, to make something more pleasing. I couldn’t find tape, so I used bandaids to tape the stems together, I hope it holds…
Here is the other arrangement is a $6 thrift store vase. It is on one of the smaller of those octagon tables.
To complete the 50s vibe they bought a record player, one that also uses blue tooth. But one needs records. I had to buy this one! I grew up on this, Elk is very familiar with these songs from all of our road trips as a kid. Mandy was a little horrified by the songs, oh well, 1965 was very very different from today when it comes to political correctness. Mostly we got swing, big band, different greatest hits from the 50s-70s.
Yeah, I took a picture, didn’t buy this, am I the only one getting a Nazi vibe?
Another one I didn’t get.
It is hot in the desert in the summer, like really hot, I came home with a cold, from all the work and the changes from hot to cold with the AC. Nope, it’s not covid, its a cold (which actually is what Covid is). I’ll survive.
Leah