After a whirlwind week of activities and festivities, we dropped my parents off at the airport this afternoon.   We got so much accomplished, it’s amazing.  I started getting a little teary-eyed today when I saw so many projects complete.  I know that’s silly, but some of them have been five years in the making and now they’re almost done.

Before I show some progress on the house, I’ll share my latest French chair makeover.  I’m really missing working on furniture, but I have a few pieces I’m going to work on in a few days.  It was nice to get this chair finally finished.  I’ve had it since June, painted it in July, upholstered it sometime in the fall and I finally made the cushion cover and put on the trim this week.  Here’s how it started…

It wasn’t bad, but it was just a little dated and tired.  Here’s what it looks like now…

 

 

It’s painted in ASCP Old White (with no wax) and upholstered in a hemp potato sack from Poland.  One of my readers sent me a bunch of them and they are beautiful for upholstery.  It’s trimmed out in cream gimp.

 

It’s perfect in an awkward corner in our home office and can easily be pulled over to the desk.

My dad installed a chandelier in my downstairs hall and my mom and I hung Adelle the cow on the blank wall.

 

…and we made some great progress on the office built-ins today…

 

I can see the finish line!

…and, miracle of all miracles, we have a functioning sink in our half bathroom!!  We were going to do it ourselves, but it was a complicated installation, so we broke down and called a plumber.  It was a tricky job for him, an expert, so it was the right call to get a pro.

 

 

We haven’t had a sink in there since the spring, so it was surreal seeing water come out of the tap.  I think I heard an angelic choir…

 

It just doesn’t take much to make me giddy.