That all sound very good and very organized! I’m wowed!
At the moment we’re thinking June of next year. I think we’d go earlier - late summer this year, maybe - but my eldest son is going into the Peace Corps in July, and will be in Africa. He wouldn’t be able to come home two months after starting. We figure he’ll be ready for a break a year in.
We want family and very close friends, and even the family is just inner-circle. The people we spend all of our holidays with. With just the essentials on each side we’re looking at maybe 25 people. But then we start talking about the friends who live right in our tiny town - should we invite them? That would make it easier for my best friend, who otherwise will be socially isolated. But then if we invite the neighbors we have my boss, with whom I socialize and who’s close to one of the neighbors…and then if I invite her, what about my buddies at work? So I don’t know.
I would like to do it in my backyard, which is lovely. My former owner spent 35 years creating perennial gardens. There’s an old rose-covered trellis that begs for a wedding. I’d wear a pretty, summery dress that’s not necessarily a wedding dress, but maybe. Catered, but casual food of some sort. A band, maybe.
But then we get to seating and the questions of tent, dance floor, tables and chairs…at some point it becomes easier to just go somewhere set up for it. Which we may do. Like you, the house project is consuming me at the moment, so I think about it but that’s about it.
Oh my goodness, someone’s been naughty! (The suspended Pushharder, not me. lol)
I really want to post a picture of my almost-done kitchen, which is why I opened the thread, but then I thought maybe I should wait until it IS done and not spam the thread more than once.
Okay, okay, my arm is sufficiently twisted. So I still need to paint the windows red to match other trim, there’s a piece of countertop missing, need to figure out what we’re doing above the stove, rug behind chair is temporary, etc, but here it is. You can just see the front of the wood stove and hearth on the left in the foreground. Kitchen table is behind the love seat.
I’m sad. Hockey is leaving today for Alaska, for a 350 mi. canoe trip. We had to say goodbye before I left for work. I took this afternoon off, but then flights changed, so he’s leaving earlier and I was already scheduled with patients for this morning.
Anyway, it was hard to say goodbye and I’m in a complete frenzy of womanly worry. What if someone breaks a leg? What if someone falls into the Yukon and they can’t get him back in the canoe quickly enough and hypothermia sets in? What if they don’t have enough to eat or matches get wet?
Evidence I have that worry is appropriate is that last night I was signing his health proxy thing, being offered passwords to accounts, and we had to go shrieking out to do our wills earlier this week, which we’ve been talking about without any move in that direction for a year and a half now.
I almost never make it on here anymore, but I just saw your picture and wanted to say I like what you’ve done with the place. I like how you’ve kept enough of a rustic feel but still modernized the design.
It looks like you’ve got a food prep sink in your island, and I like how you were able to get a lot of windows and a lot of storage. What’s the countertop material?
Thanks, LoRez! I like it, too. I’m still sort of stunned every morning when I walk in and see all the outside through the windows, which doesn’t really come through in the pic. Behind the table is a glass door and another set of tall windows. Here (both taken in spring, it’s all different now):
Our kitchen is coming along too. Appliances, plumbing fixtures, cabinet trim and wall paint isn’t in yet, but soon. Wood flooring is in but covered up right now. Neither the floors or the tile is in any of these pictures.
Pretty similar ideas, but just a different style. Lots of windows and light. You certainly have quite a view out of yours.
We went with a honed granite that has a very similar sheen as soapstone.
WOW, I love (envy!) that bedroom! It’s so romantic. My bedroom is a huge bummer by comparison. Although when Hockey gets home we start tearing shit up again to add a small master bath and closet. But it will never look like that. Never. Which kind of puts it at odds with the comparatively glam kitchen.
I really like the cabinet color - I keep seeing colors in the decorating magazines and sites, and they look so cheery - I’m looking forward to seeing yours put together. What color will the walls be? Also, is the room the kitchen opens to a living area or dining? Very sunny and bright! The granite does look a lot like ours, texture-wise. I can’t say enough how much I love the soapstone, though after living for 1.5 years with Wilsonart we were initially shattering stuff on it. I can only assume it’s the weightlifting that makes me set glasses and dishes down with such lethal force.
I’m so excited about the video in my head of you two drinking coffee and wine on that balcony, and being all happy. : )
I do have more pictures. May still take me a couple days to get around to posting them though. We have interior paint and trim and tile and lights and outlets now. Plumbing and the rest of our lighting goes in this week.
I can’t say I’ve ever been this busy in my life. Maybe high school, but most of that was just showing up. These days it’s just constantly thinking about things and making decisions.
You’ve got a lot going on. The house stuff alone is a lot to think about. What color this, what color that, do you want the cabinet over the washer/dryer to match the kitchen, bathroom faucet, drawer pulls, trim, etc etc etc. I assume the wedding is much of the same. Hockey was actually pushing me to start moving on ours so we can get tent, caterer, etc, booked in. I’m already overwhelmed. Why can’t we just take a shower and then get married? Why does it have to be so complicated? And we’re only talking about a backyard wedding. : /
We’ve started replacing siding and painting the exterior here. It’s exciting! That job we’ve largely hired out, though now that Hockey’s back from Alaska he’s doing siding and built the scaffolding and such himself. Looks like we’re also getting ready to start the back (screened-in) porch. I’m really psyched for that. I LOVED my screened in porch, with my awesome hammock-seat swing for curling up in with a book.
