Surreal Georgia

New Photo Challenge: February 2012

Participating blogs:

margaReetaville,   Buster's House,   JayAhrsBlog,   Surreal Georgia

 

 

House Soap - My House

This time no further run of the series, but simply my house after posting the view out of my window yesterday. I f my house could talk it would say:

"I'm a good house, very sturdy, cozy and safe like an old castle. Everone who made me, and this are five generations of the same family now, left a piece of his soul in my walls. I'm filled with all good thoughts of the ancestors and I protect my family from evil."

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It's still extremely cold here in Germany. I wish it were already spring. The heating is running all the time.

House Soap 27

 

 

O dear, I don't believe what I see!

 

Must have been the last glass of whiskey yesterday night. I better shut my eyes again.

 

Out your window

 

 

 

This is now our new photo challenge. First task: Out your window. It`s pretty cold here, about 10°F, but the sky is clear and a bright sun is shining shortly before sundown. It's made out my bedroom window and I'm looking forward for much sun in this room as soon it is furnished, what hopefully will be not in too far future.

 

House Soap 26

*Beep* *Beep* The force will destroy you! *Beep*

 

You loose! I've got your lightsaber! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Me (Photo Challenge)

Good bye photo challenge January 2012 and welcome photo challenge February 2012!

 

House Soap 25

 

 

Grumpy today? Angry? You hate your life?

 

 

Just laugh at it and don't forget: Always look on the bright side of life, dudum, dudum...

 

 

Nature (Photo Challenge)

I hoped that this time we wouldn't have any frost in winter, but now it's cold here:

House Soap 24

Out of my way! Yum, yum. I'm going to eat you all!

Oh no! Don't eat me! I'm not tasty at all.

DIY In The Guest Bedroom

This was the guest bedroom like, when I inherited the house. My parents never threw away any old furniture and so their first bedroom furniture were still in use as the guest bedoom. The furniture are from 1952. They were dark and unattractive and the color "olive green" that was combined to some beige and pink did not make the room look comfortable. The decoration was frumpish.

So we removed all crap of the room. A neighbor took the furniture and the rest went into the dump.

After preparing the room and painting the ceiling, after wallpapering and painting the room looks like this:

There is still a lot to do. Next weekend I'm going to install the jacks and the lamps, making a new window sill in pain black like all the others in the house, cleaning the mess, hanging curtains and so on. Only the floor must wait, because we first have to save a little money. Renovating and constructing is extremely expensive, so we can't do all at once. There will be the same floor in a light sand beige you can see through the door in the hallway.

Also furnishing the room must wait until summer, because the furniture for this room are evacuated in my other house. These are the furniture for this room:

You already know the picture. My great grandfather made two cabinets, a dresser, two beds and two nightstands for my grandma when she married. And I painted them with flowers, because they were painted in an unattractive brown. The red and sand beige color of the furniture was chosen for the walls of the guest bedroom. Combined with this will be a red gingham pattern for the curtains and cushions like it was very common at that time when the furniture were made. My grandma wove such fabric herself, but unfortunately there is not much of it left, although the linen is in very good condition. So we decided to buy a similar fabric for decorating the room.

Here is a panorama of the room:

This is a photomontage which can give you an idea how it will look like when the room is done:

Well, I'm not good with Photoshop...