Complete!

Wow!  I'm done.  Pictures taken, artwork put up, garden furniture in place... I'm a little overwhelmed.  Got the digital camera working and hopefully everything uploads the way I want.  I can only submit four pictures so they've got to be four good ones.  God help me.  I'm gonna need it.

So here we have the entire back of the house.

I'm a little worried the detail will be lost but I can't do much about it.

Ignore the erroneous date stamp.  The camera is not behaving itself.

I'm going to just put up everything I've got and hopefully all of you will enjoy.

And there we have it folks.  Now I've got to go through these and pick four to submit.  Won't that be a joy?

Wish me luck!




Roof Garden in Progress

I'll admit that this is the part of the house I worried about the most.  Not the getting it done part.  No, I'm fairly confident that I'll finish it. 

I'm concerned with cat predation.  You see, Tali is just a little too interested in the flowers.  So in between working days the roof is covered with plastic and taped down.

The roof garden is an exercise in container gardening as I learnt it in my horticulture class. (Yes, a science credit and no dissection or chemicals!)  So I blocked off the areas for the beds and build up what would (in a real flowerbed) earth/dirt with florists foam. I covered that with glue and then sprinkled rubberized mulch over it.  I can't find the product anymore and I wonder if its been discontinued.  It's not this mulch, it's smaller and darker colored and looks more like soil than actual mulch.  I'm a little bummed that I can't find more.

But after I got the flower beds build up I put some flowers I'd bought from HBS Miniatures into a few strategic spots and build up the rest of the flowers around them. 

I was so busy getting this done that I didn't take any in progress pictures. So here's some of the finished flowerbeds.

The edges of the roof are still raggety and I need to fix that.  And I will.  But first I wanted to get my patio tile down.  I bought some on Ebay and then some from HBS Miniatures and they were two different colors.  So I cut them up.  And voila!

I'll grout tonight and then hunt down my picnic table.  I've got some furniture and a little fireplace for in the empty corner.  That's also tiled in the darker terracotta. 

So far I'm fairly pleased with how it looks.

Much nicer than the yard of my actual house. 

After this is done, all that's left is the grass for the front of the house and some pavers going up to the porch. Easy peasy. (I hope.)

Details, Details, Details... oh, and Pets!

This is gonna be a mostly pictures post.  Because my weekend was spent going through all my stuff and doing a few little things to each room to make the rooms look lived in. 

So let's start with the living room.  I added a bookshelf because part of the wall looked so blank next to the chair and a picture wouldn't quite have done it.

Books, shells and a few candles

A sweet Australian Shepherd

Some artwork from the bead aisle at Hobby Lobby and an elephant

A shot of the entire left side of the room.

The kitchen was... well.  Lots to do there.

A painting and a blackboard.  This shot is through the front window.  I need to wash it really.

Phone, clock and some little sayings for the wall.

A shot of the island with it's wine rack and apples

And now upstairs to the office/studio. 

Some things for the desk

Props and supplies for the artist



A nice shot of the left side of the room so far.

An artists smock on the back of the door and a soothing fish tank

And some work for the architect

With the bedroom, I added a few things and did a little rearranging of the chairs.

A shot of the closet doors and the art on the wall, painted by the resident of course.

Slippers and a sit to put on your shoes chair

And some cats on their climbing tree and in the basket.  Sleepy kitties

I did a few more things in the bedroom, I'll put the pictures up tomorrow.  For now, I added a thing or two to the bathroom.

Toothpaste and toothbrush

Bath salts (citrine & topaz) and some mouthwash on the shelf over the toilet

You can just see the clock and the shelf in this picture.  I always loose track of time when I'm showering.

 

And I also set the garage up nicely.  I'm pretty pleased with it.

A box for the cats, and a fire extinguisher for safety.

The tool box will probably end up on the floor and the box will be switched out for a crate.

It doesn't look too bad does it?

Balcony Railing!

I finished this up on Friday night and then forgot to post it because I dove into working on Saturday and didn't blog. I know. Shame on me.

But here's the finished railing.

Please ignore my spray paint cans

I'll end up touching up some of the wood...maybe giving it a slightly darker tint with some black paint for contrast.  It looks like it just blends it right now.

Oh, I also promised you guys a shot of the bedroom windows.

See?  I love this contrast. It's not huge but I love the black and brown.