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Addition BEFORE and AFTER.

Our previous owners had nothing short of a fetish, for intensely pigmented and blindingly obnoxious paint…
Their criteria for choosing colors seemed to be the question: what will be most jarring?

If you have not seen the before pictures of this house, they basically painted every room a different color.

The orange in the addition was the last surviving evidence of their dedication.

Before and After: this space went from a (horrible!) half bath to a wall of windows! We are DIY-ing an old Victorian house, one room at a time… current project is a kitchen gut job, including renovating the attached addition.

Above is where we were two weeks ago.

Before I show you the AFTER, let’s remind ourselves what the addition looked like BEFORE.

Before we:
gutted the bathroom.
took out the floor.
installed the windows.

And yes, my husband DOES still have tanktops from 1999… Paul’s theory of clothing is that if it has not absolutely disintegrated it is not time to get rid of it.

Before and After: this space went from a (horrible!) half bath to a wall of windows! We are DIY-ing an old Victorian house, one room at a time… current project is a kitchen gut job, including renovating the attached addition.

I have been trying to finish this post in a coherent way for going on two weeks— there is more to this project that is worth explaining… but Elvis hasn’t been doing well, and I feel like my brain is in cement.

Last week her eating started to go downhill, but then over the weekend she rallied… not in a way that makes me think she changed her mind about the finale, but enough that I’ve had a brief reprieve from the shock of realizing that I only THINK I am at peace with the next part.

I know I don’t have to explain to you the degree to which this is leaving me frantic but also paralyzed.

Before and After: this space went from a (horrible!) half bath to a wall of windows! We are DIY-ing an old Victorian house, one room at a time… current project is a kitchen gut job, including renovating the attached addition.

Before and After: this space went from a (horrible!) half bath to a wall of windows! We are DIY-ing an old Victorian house, one room at a time… current project is a kitchen gut job, including renovating the attached addition.

The strange thing is that other than poor eating, she seems FINE. She is not having any of the issues I expected (yet) and she is still enjoying all of the things she loves; her favorite activity is being brushed while she rubs her face on her fuzzy ball in a blanket nest… so that’s mainly what I’ve been up to.

Other than that, I am unable to cope with anything. Including some really important things I’m supposed to be doing and soon they may catch on fire. I should be concerned, but the cement-in-brain issue is preventing me from even caring.

Instead I’ve been re-reading comfort books, (particularly this which is magic— about grief and human friendship and how animals save you.)  And buying earrings I don’t need, in a push to fill the dark, sad pit in my soul with shiny things… my aptitude in this area seems undiminished, proving concretely that my life skills are useless to anyone, myself included.

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  1. Jacqueline
    March 5, 2017 @ 4:26 pm

    You did exactly what I would have done. Beautiful.

    I would build up to the level of those French doors so when entertaining outside I would not have to carry platters etc down those stairs or any stairs for that matter. I would use the same wood you used on the front porch. Then add stairs from that level to the ground level and add a second area for entertaining.

    Weird color choices drive me crazy too. I have friend who every room in her house is a different primary color. She loved the old color of your room! (I don’t know how we are even friends, ha.)

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