Design: Use What You Have

In our office/guest cottage, Yellow Belle, below.  She had cast offs from my home/garden and Beloved's.
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Ca. 1945, on an acre, she is an elegant simple home, the type to leverage a life better.  Wise architecture seeps into a soul.
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In the front parlor, below, capturing light, yet total privacy.  Sourced the shutters, perched not attached, at a favorite junking haunt.  A light blue, and dirty from being stored in a garage for decades, I always meant to clean/paint, never did.  But you knew that.



In our new home, ca. 1900 American Farmhouse, below, for less than a week, boxes/chaos reign.  Had to create a pocket of calm, somewhere.  Guest bath, below.  Grab & place design.  The bathroom retains its Skyland Camp for Girls-shower-ca. 1944, and window looking onto the second kitchen. (Wicked humor having 2 kitchens, I can't operate one.)

Good to see my old friends, supporting our new lives.

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Cannot believe I'm still needing the shutters, and they're still dirty years later.  I should clear coat them, say they are faux and call it a day.

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Soon the window, above, will become a door, creating a Jack/Jill bathroom.

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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara

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Keeping the 2nd kitchen at the back of the house, turning another window into a door, creating a garden entry with our filthy clothes/boots.  The 'kitchen' will have the laundry, household supplies, and flower arranging island.  A dream to strip by the laundry and walk into the shower.  For the price of 2 windows into doors.  

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2nd kitchen?  Added decades ago for a grown son/his wife to live in the house & caretake his mother.