Kids' Bathroom Pics

One more room done! YEAH!

(and there was great rejoicing throughout the home).

Here is our children's bathroom. It is a split bathroom; tub in one room, pocket door to join to the next room which holds the sink and WC. When they are older they can close the pocket door so that one can bathe whilst the other brushes teeth, uses WC whatever.

On all these pics, please admire the furniture. If it's IKEA, I assembled it. Feeling right proud of myself I am!

A Barn Restored

Behind our house rests a very old dairy barn. We used to run our pottery business out of it, but we got tired of being broke and went and got real jobs in which we work less and earn more.

Anyway, the barn roof had large holes and everything was wet and we needed to either bulldoze it or start taking care of it. Since we were only in the middle of two adoptions (China and Russia) and a 1200 sq foot addition and a laundry room project and restuccoing and repainting the house, we thought: Yes! Let's take on a new project! Fun! Fun!

October 2005 - Jamie and Greg (b.i.l.) and Dad rip off the old roof. That's Greg up there securing the safety harness. There is little that Greg cannot do.








November 2005 - bare naked barn






December 2005 - cute new roof thanks to Rainshield Roofing We were going to stop here, as the water-problem was solved. But Santa Greg brought us a nice suprise.

















July 2006 - Greg (awesome sweet generous b.i.l.) and Dad (Mr. UberHelpful) and Kayti (lovely niece) paint the barn.

Pics of Andy and Juliana's Room, at long last

Yes, I love IKEA. The beds and bedding are a gift from Grandma and Grandpa C. Jamie picked the wall colors. The really tall wall is perwinkle and the other walls are pale blue. This room gets lots and lots of daylight (south and west windows) so we did it in cool colors. The wardrobe is a modified IKEA wardrobe; I tossed the cheesy curtain that it came with and gave it a perky curtain. You can see the light from the sunset shining on it.

Parsley did a very thorough quality check and was apparently satisfied.