The First of Several Moving Days

Last year, Carolyn's friend Becky reupholstered some cushions using some fabric with fish on it. The cushions were for an old rattan couch Carolyn bought years ago. This weekend, Russ and Carolyn reupholstered the rest with some really nice fabric from "My Favorite Place", an Atlanta junk store. The fabric has wild grapes. Totally different pattern but same colors.

Then Sunday AM we loaded everything we could fit on the trailer to move it to Richmond Woods! The "new" couch, gas stove, old round wooden side table (for the rocking chair porch) and a heavy, beautiful coffee table Debbie gave Russ.

Once everything was unloaded, we resumed the upholstery project on the back porch...

We ran out of daylight so just moved it in the house. Won't this look nice?

By next weekend, Russ will have a new floor buffer so we will finish the upholstery, wax the floor and go pick up all the stove pipe. Don't know if we will be able to start on that or not!

Labor Day Weekend

Coming down the homestretch. We started the cabin in February 2008... it's been 2 1/2 years. Wouldn't be as far as we are if not for Chuck, Millican's crew and Jas'n. Plus moral support of our followers. But here we are, painting and finishing floors.

Lovely weekend. Perfect weather for doing a whole bunch of work. No leaves are changing yet but low humidity and temperatures in the 80s, 60s at night!

Carolyn hadn't been to Richmond Woods for a while, busy on work travel and visiting grandchildren. Russ and Jas'n had installed a red oak plank floor and sanded it. Russ finished it with his mother's recipe: turpentine, linseed oil and added a tiny bit of stain. It looks great (left, below)! Two coats and he wanted to add a third then wax it. Russ also had some outside work to do: removing a fascia board and cutting down a barge rafter that was too long so the fascia fit properly without bowing out (right, below).

Do you like martinis? Real ones with an olive? Then you would like the historic preservation color called Homestead Resort Moss that Carolyn painted the inside of the cabin. We call it "Martini Olive Green". She's thinking about painting some orangey red around the windows just to finish the effect. It's a bit strong but we are going to have lots of wavy board trim the honey color same as the outside (we will have contrast: deep walls, light trim, as we were advised to do by Bobby and Randy)... around the windows and doors, as baseboard and "crown" molding. So there will be far less green showing than now.



Russ did the floor finish on hands and knees. Here he is, doing coat 3 then the finished look, right.

And here's some of our contrast: creamy white beadboard ceiling, creamy white windows on the moss green.

It wasn't all work last weekend. We had time to sit around a campfire in the cool night air. Russ sipped a Rebel Yell. I just had a lemonade. Join us if you enjoy such simple pleasures!

Big news: Russ ordered all the stovepipe and we are picking it up this weekend and taking a bunch of furniture up. YAHOO!