Striptease...I mean eze!!

I've said it before, and I will probably say it a hundred more times...what would we do without our friends?  Yesterday Patti Bates came over with her paint stripping kit.  We set up our work station and began to scrape layers of old paint off the eight table legs I purchased at the Bouckville antique show last weekend.  We applied several coats of a stripeze type chemical and made some headway.  However, it wasn't until Joel got home from work and broke out his heat gun that we achieved complete success.  Some of you know what I intend to create with these legs, but I will keep the rest of you in suspense until I am done with my project.  Thank you Patti!

Late last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Lyn Wardwell's sister Terry who also lives in California.  She delighted me with her childhood recollections of living in the house and provided me with helpful insights as I continue to plan my interior and exterior designs.  I loved hearing that the family gathered for meals at a large round cherry table in the corner of the dining room where the two big windows meet.  We chuckled over her memory of passing a box of Cheez-its crackers through a hole in the ceiling over the refrigerator to her cousin in the room above.  I couldn't wait to get up to the house to find the opening, which I did!  See below:) During our conversation, Terry asked if we were going to have shutters on the house.  When we purchased back in May there were no shutters, but each window was adorned with beautiful scroll holders.  We saved them as we contemplated adding shutters back onto the house down the road.  It seems that Terry and Lyn's father came up with his own paint color for their shutters called Litchfield Green.  She described it as not quite forest green but not too light either.  Since our siding is going to be sage, green shutters are definitely a possibility.

Incredible progress has been made on the house in the past several days.  Steve continues to work on the outside and has installed almost all of the windows on the front and sides.  He carefully removed the eyebrow window from the third story and is having the broken panes replaced.  Larry and Josh are busy inside taking down ceilings and walls.  The upstairs looks like a scene out of a ghost story...hauntingly beautiful!